Sun, Jun 11
|Sailing Goat at Point San Pablo Harbor
Tom Heyman


Time & Location
Jun 11, 2023, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Sailing Goat at Point San Pablo Harbor, 1900 Stenmark Dr, Richmond, CA 94801, USA
About the event
Singer/songwriter and multi instrumentalist Tom Heyman started playing and recording in the
late 1980s with the Philadelphia based band Go To Blazes. He wrote songs, played guitar, and
the band released 5 full-length records and toured the US and Europe extensively before
breaking up in 1997. After relocating to San Francisco in 1998, he began working as a sideman,
eventually joining local favorites The Court and Spark, as well as Chuck Prophet’s band in
addition to work touring and recording with John Doe, Alejandro Escovedo, Sonny Smith, Hiss
Golden Messenger, and many other artists. All the while he was discovering his voice as a solo
artist and bandleader. His second solo record Deliver Me, was critically acclaimed, receiving 4
star reviews in both Mojo and Uncut magazine, and songs from the record were heard in the TV
shows True Blood, Justified and Damages. Heyman recorded his sixth solo record, 24th Street
Blues, in Portland, Oregon with Mike Coykendall (M. Ward) producing and Rusty Miller (Kelley
Stoltz, Jason Lytle) and himself covering the musical bases. The intention was to create a sound
that combined the loose, late night, low down groove of JJ Cale with the bittersweet
melancholia of late period Nick Lowe and the melodic storytelling of Heyman’s hero Gordon
Lightfoot. The record was written mostly at night, after long bar shifts, and is an examination of
the loneliness and alienation of a city in flux, and the true cost of love. The record will be
released in October and comes with a 60 page songbook, illustrated by his wife, the painter
Deirdre White, who teaches fine art at CCSF and UCDavis. 24th Street Blues will be released
October 6, 2023.