A long time ago in a place faraway I had my own dream, of making music MY way, of recording it as authentically as I could, of taking the finished product to the world and asking 'how do you like me?' Lot of water under lots of bridges as they say, since then, and I just passed another few major milestones on my journey. Being Number One Blues Artist on Reverbnation for almost 3 years since my first release is incredible enough, being inducted into the USA Blues Hall of Fame is huge, enormous, being the first ever Indie Blues artist to 'open' the Jazz Network Worldwide with a month long feature I will not easily forget, having my own radio show on Womens Radio now aired on 8 other networks in the USA/UK & NZ is something that I'm proud of..............but........... Hitting the RootsMusicReport Blues Chart in the USA at #5 now with my self produced first album In The Making is a major, major milestone for me - when I look down that chart and see the calibre of the artists in there and realise I am the only non-American artist among them: this feels good. To realise that airplay put me there feels good. And..........I finally got this album on CD Baby which is another tiny milestone for me. The glowing reviews on there for my work makes me glow too! I love my music but how wonderful that others love it too. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tommiebrewster There's more!! I got my act together with my blog site on Blogger and will be using that a lot more; if you care to read yet more of my words, here's the link: http://tommiebrewster.blogspot.com/2011/06/more-mi lestones-on-my-yellow-brick-road.html Lots of thanks too for all the live interviews that I've done recently - I put 3 of them on my website in case you'd really like to listen to me talk!! http://www.tommiebrewster.com/#!__interviews-of-me And just now big thanks to Regina Swarn Media & Entertainment for the month long feature here: http://reginaswarnweeklyfeatures.blogspot.com/2011 /06/tommie-brewster-monthly-feature-story.html

I'm very proud indeed to be an Ambassador for the UK Charity Act Against Injustice which exists to fight the horror that is Trafficking and Abuse of Children worldwide and to bring awareness to everyone of the extent of this multi million dollar business resulting in the disappearance of 2.4 million children each year. I have only to think of one child in misery somewhere in the world to be inspired to do more - and more - and more - as much as I can do to help promote the charity and maybe help raise funds for their projects. Earlier this year, I released a song 'Let There Be Light' which I donated to Act Against Injustice and which I'm pleased to say has raised funds which I have specifically designated into the 'Safehouse Fund'. We are aiming to build safehouses in various places around the world, the first one in Nepal where we have helped to rescue several children from slave labor. In January 2012, there will be a live 'Awareness' Concert in New York, with artists giving their time to perform and we hope this will put more money in the Safehouse Fund. In the Fall of 2012, there will be another concert - on a much larger scale - in Florida with some very well known stars joining us to make this a very high profile event. All very exciting. Several people in radio in the USA and the UK are kindly helping me to promote the work of AAI by inviting me to be a guest on their shows - and to preview a new song that I'm releasing for the benefit of the charity. The first such interview is with Diana Broomfield of WDBQ on November 12 - Diana is a great supporter of my music and also my spoken word and I'm looking forward to speaking with her again. She will play my new song: 'Someone Else's Problem' which I was inspired to write simply by thinking of the plight of children around the world. Children in every country need our care; what could be more important than a child? I am honored to have the opportunity to try and help - my mission is to be The Voice of The Children - for the missing children cannot speak for themselves. Please help - you can download this track for only 1$ from my music store - all proceeds to the children..........they need YOU!! http://www.reverbnation.com/store/index/artist_299 688

I was asked by a music journalist last year when I released my first ever single, what was it that I wanted from putting myself and my music out into the world. My answer was that I just want to be heard. I have been writing music forever - I started playing piano at age 4 - and music is my life my heart and soul - and blues is the genre that speaks loudest to me So to be here on IMRadio where the emphasis is entirely on 'being heard' is just the best! Thanks IMRadio!!

I joined mystagemusic.com only about 10 days ago after following a link given me by a very very nice guitarist friend of mine. One more site to get used to, one more site to spend hours ( this is New Zealand here folks - broadband is a figment of someone's imagination!) uploading mp3s and a few pics, one more site to browse around and see how many familiar faces are there. I think it's a great site actually; it concentrates on the artist and the graphics are great and I like the idea of being able to display your music in the 'sets' they have up there. Nice. So, totally stunned to find that I am selected to be one of the Featured Artists for September - in fact I am the Featured Blues Artist for September!!! Thankyou Mystagemusic!!! The package/backup is very, very good in terms of support and widgets and so on that they provide for you to maximise this opportunity - I like it a lot! So hope you'll come and check me out and any of you not on there, I would recommend you join up......... For myself, I feel quite proud that, having finally got my dream out there in terms of writing, playing, singing, arranging and producing just a few of my songs, they touch people enough for them to come back for more! love Tommie

Only few short weeks ago I joined mystagemusic.com and was thrilled to be selected as the Featured Blues Artist for September. The support from the site is great and it’s ongoing even after the month is over. They decided to run a vote for Featured Artists and the response I got from my friends and fellow musicians to this was overwhelming to be honest, both in the votes and the many (nice!) comments they left on my page, so much so that mystagemusic had to close my comments page! The result was that they again selected me as Featured Blues Artist for another month, October, which is quite amazing to me. So I have to say a Big Big thankyou to everyone that voted - and you can if you wish carry on voting for me at this link: http://www.mystagemusic.com/mystage-blues/ just scroll down and hit the thumbs up icon. The track chosen to play on that page is Break It To Me Gently which is a song that is not playing on my MySpace player so many of you won’t have heard this which is a bit different – love the reso guitar on it! It’s playing here now……………..