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Gordon M. Titcomb

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Multi-instrumentalist, studio musician and composer, Gordon Titcomb has long been known in the music industry as an "Artist behind the Artist", touring, performing and recording with many of the music World's best known stars including: Paul Simon, Arlo Guthrie, Shawn Colvin and many others. Perhaps you've also seen him a special guest performer with Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul & Mary, or any number of others well known artists.
Gordon's been a featured soloist at such venerable halls as: The Grand Ole Opry, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Disney Hall to name a few.
Gordon's diverse musical resume' also includes performing in the orchestras of 5 shows on Broadway, producing a children's music album that won a...more Multi-instrumentalist, studio musician and composer, Gordon Titcomb has long been known in the music industry as an "Artist behind the Artist", touring, performing and recording with many of the music World's best known stars including: Paul Simon, Arlo Guthrie, Shawn Colvin and many others. Perhaps you've also seen him a special guest performer with Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul & Mary, or any number of others well known artists.
Gordon's been a featured soloist at such venerable halls as: The Grand Ole Opry, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Disney Hall to name a few.
Gordon's diverse musical resume' also includes performing in the orchestras of 5 shows on Broadway, producing a children's music album that won a Parent's Choice Honors Award, recording over a hundred national jingles and commercials as well as composing music for Disney, HBO, ESPN, The Maurray Povich Show and many others.

With all of this in mind, Gordon says: "For me, it's always been about the song... how to make the song live & breathe so that it touches the emotions of the people that hear it." "A good song should really be more than merely clever words or pleasant notes... a good song needs to have life and truth at it's core."

A SONG BECOMES A BOOK:

While touring as a member of Arlo Guthrie's band, Gordon wrote a song called The Last Train which subsequently became the title track of his first solo CD.
Gordon says: "I have always loved railroad songs.... I've been working on the Railroad, Wabash Cannonball, Midnight Flyer, City of New Orleans... these are some of the songs that I not only love to sing myself, but hope to introduce to younger generations. They are vital pieces of work that keep the legacy of America's great railroads alive for youngsters. My song was written to shine a light on the people, places, things & songs of the railroad."

This song attracted the attention of noted illustrator Wendell Minor ( Mary Higgins Clark, Buzz Aldrin and many, many others) who contacted Neal Porter at Roaring Brook Press ( Macmillan) to say that he thought the song would make a fantastic book. Upon hearing the song, Porter agreed, and the rest, as they say...is History!"(less)