When I think of my favorite songwriters- he doesn’t come immediately to mind for some reason- but when I think a little deeper on it- and consider none rock/pop songwriters- Tom T. Hall certainly makes the list. The first thing I saw this morning was that Tom T. Hall had died at the age of 85. The two songs he is most famous for- are probably ‘Harper Valley P.T.A’ which was a huge country and pop smash back in 1968 for Jeannie C. Riley- it sold 6 million copies and put Hall on the map as a songwriter and helped launch his own career. He was big in the 70’s- in the past 30 years he was pretty quiet only releasing a few albums- but one 1997’s Home Grown may have been his best album. His most famous song that he had a hit with has to be ‘The Year That Clayton Delaney Died.’ His nickname was ‘The Storyteller’- and he was one of the great storyteller songwriters. My two favorite Tom T. Hall songs- here is Tom T singing ‘ That’s How I Got To Memphis’- and below that from a T Tribute album- RB Morris doing ‘Don’t Forget The Coffee Billy Joe.’