"Bill Toms in Pittsburgh lays legitimate claim as one of the worthiest members of the blues-soul camp that reveres Stax/Hi without suffocating in revivalist cliches." DownBeat Magazine Bill Toms “Bill Toms is a poet, a soul-shouter and guitar slinger with one foot in the gutter and an eye on the heavens above. And man, does he front a great rock n' soul band!” - Will Kimbrough/ While it’s hard to put a finger on any one sound that defines “American music,” the compositions of Bill Toms are as close a template as any. Read more on