LOVE, TOM Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe-nominated Tom Douglas, is proposing a residency of his popular one-man show Love, Tom, where he shares stories and some of his famed songs. Douglas’ hit-making career began with his Collin Raye hit “Little Rock,” a 1994 CMA Song of the Year nominee. Douglas was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014. His acceptance speech grew to such popularity that Douglas began writing a one-man show, with his son Tommy, and then a documentary based on the speech. The show, Love,Tom is now available on Apple TV and Amazon streaming services . Tom's performance storytelling opens with the titular writer fielding correspondence from a discouraged tunesmith. “Not too long ago I received a letter; a letter from a desperate young songwriter asking for advice,” Douglas recounts. From there, the performance is off and running and talking, to be precise. All the while, he’s talking, explaining with poetic flourish the art of songwriting as it relates to his own life. “They say you write about what you know,” he says. “I’m telling you my story not because it’s the best one, it’s just the one that I know the best.” In between his oration, Douglas pauses to perform some of his songs, “I Run to You,” cut by Lady A, croons “My Little Girl,” recorded by Tim McGraw, and, in the showstopper, plays his biggest hit, Miranda Lambert’s “The House That Built Me.”  The origin of “The House That Built Me” is a high point of Love, Tom, with Douglas recalling how his co-writer Allen Shamblin spoke those five words to him over breakfast in the summer of 2002. At that moment, he says, “the earth tilted on its axis, the forks were suspended in mid-air, the water froze in the pitcher — that’s the power of a good idea.” Douglas made Shamblin swear he wouldn’t repeat the title again until they could convene in a writing room. When they did, the result was a Grammy nomination for Song of the Year. MORE TOM Tom Douglas is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and GRAMMY-nominated songwriter. After enjoying a 13-year career in commercial real estate, Douglas got his first song recorded by Collin Raye at the age of 41. That song, “Little Rock”, reached #1, earned a nomination for CMA Song of the Year and achieved the Million-Air award from BMI for receiving one million spins on country radio. Since then, Douglas has written numerous number one hits, including: “I Run to You” (Lady A), “Southern Voice” (Tim McGraw) and “The House That Built Me” (Miranda Lambert). The Grammy Award-winning song “The House That Built Me” remained at number one on the Billboard charts for four weeks and earned ACM’s first ever Song of the Decade award. Douglas has written countless well-received songs for a wide range of artists, including: Keith Urban, P!nk, Luke Bryan, Celine Dion, Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Florida Georgia Line, Kenny Chesney, Kane Brown, George Strait, Chris Janson, and Collin Raye among others. In 2011 Douglas’ song, “Coming Home '' received an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song. In 2014, Douglas was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, subsequently receiving a Grammy Nomination for his song “Meanwhile Back at Mama’s” recorded by Tim McGraw. Some of Douglas’ recent work includes “Drunk Girl” by Chris Janson, which received the 2018 MusicRow Award for Song of The Year. He also penned the song “Dear Hate” recorded by Maren Morris and Vince Gill, earning the Grammy nomination for the 2019 Country Song of the Year. In 2022, Douglas released his acclaimed feature film Love, Tom on Paramount+, which Rolling Stone dubbed, “a direct-to-camera, fourth- wall-smashing marvel.” Love, Tom is currently available on AppleTV and Amazon Prime. Douglas is signed to Sony Music Publishing, and lives in Nashville with his wife, Katie. Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Country Similar Artists: Casey Beathard, Warren Brothers, Luke Laird, Jimmy Webb, Lori McKenna, Tim McGraw INSTAGRAM