TOMMY RYNICK: News

Hi; I have been getting several phone calls about the presentation I did at the Berwick Christian Church, and one of my fans suggested that I record my presentations and put them on cd and have them for sale. I would like to thank Jack Michael for such a wonderful idea, and I will be adding that project to my work list.

Hi; I just did my first presentation of faith and music at the Berwick Christian Church, my home church, and was pleasantly surprised at the turnout and the acceptance of the audience. It was truly a new experience for me and one I will remember for a long time. I would like to thank our pastor, John Hill for the encouragement to try to do something like this. The purpose of these presentations is to get my name out there to more people and to try and sell more cd's of my album,"This road I travel". I am trying to raise money for troubled teens, and young adults, and this album is a perfect vehicle to do such a thing. I will be trying to solicit more dates at different churches throughout the area, so if any of you would like to have me do a presentation at the church you attend, please tell your pastor to contact me and I will be more than happy to come and visit with you. Thank you, and thanks again to pastor Hill, and all those who attended at the Berwick Christian Church.

Wow. Spike and Clyde have been out rounding up some places to play for out fans, and boy, they sure are filling up the calendar. I am sorry I haven't been keeping you up to date better lately, I am so busy trying to keep up that I am getting further behind. Check out our calendar to keep up with us and you will see what I mean. I've still got some more work to catch up on so I will fill you in on some more details later. Thanks for keeping in touch. Tommy

Hi; I joined the rest of the gang at the washingtonville fire co. social hall on friday evening, and what a turnout. This place is really roarin. This is country music at its best. Smooth Country hosts an open mike every friday night and there is some really good talent in those hills around this area. You've got to see it to believe it, so come on down and join in some friday evening, or just come on down to enjoy some real, traditional country music. We're there every friday evening. Hope to see you there. Tommy.

Hi Folks; Just got some pictures of myself with SMOOTH COUNTRY, and I thought you might enjoy them. We are now working up a program of songs for live shows, so if anyone might be interested in booking the group for an event in the future, give me a call at 570-379-3826 or email me at tommy@tommyrynick.com, for more information.

We just got nailed with hurricane Irene, and now a flood. This flood is worse than Agnus was in 1972. I do think someone is trying to tell us something. I hope the folks all over start paying attention. So much for what is happening this weekend. We cannot move around very much because of flooded roads, and roads tore up frome the flood. I am taking part in a 9/11 memorial service at our church sunday morning. I will be singing God Bless the U.S.A. If anyone is in the area and would like to join us, you are always welcome at Berwick Christian Church. Service starts at 10:20 am. Next week we are planning a practice session with the band and work week, so not much happening for a couple of weeks. We will keep you informed of any new developments. Thank you.

Hi again folks; Tomorrow evening is our last one for this month, so I hope to see some of you folks down there, outside of Danville, near Mausdale. They have a very nice menu, so have a nice dinner, and enjoy some good old fashion country music. There are also many talented musicians down in that neck of the woods, who come in and share their talents with us, so you never know what you will hear next. Hope to see some of you there.

Hi folks; This was truly a wonderful week for me, as it sure was fun to be playing some great music with some terrific musicians, and I must say really talented singers. I also met many new fans this week which really made it a very memorable week. I am sorry to say that although we personally didn't have any damage or hardships, all up and down the eastern coastline, there is more damage than I have ever seen in my lifetime from Hurricane Irene. I pray with all my heart that people from all over that have been saved from this mess, will open up their hearts, and their pocketbooks for these people along the coast. Thank you for listening to my music, reading my humble messages, and for coming out to see our shows. Hope to see you soon.

Wow; I've been so excited about filling in with "Smooth Country" that I left out some old news about what I'd been doing so far this year. Well, I told you about some health issues I'd had recently, but just when I thought I was ready to get going again my appendix blew up, literally. I would have thought if it lasted this long, it was past worrying about. That happened the first week of april, and I am just lately feeling like maybe you folks are going to have to put up with me for a while longer. I was preparing to get the distribution of the new albums out to the rest of the places I wrote to you about, well now I am planning on finishing that job. I have been trying to get some writing done, and have managed to complete some new songs, so I will be working on the new albums now too. Also, Smooth Country is hoping to get into our little studio to record an album for all the local fans, plus some of them are also doing some really fine writing, so I am looking forward to an exciting second half of 2011. Again, thanks for keeping in touch even as I haven't been able to respond back lately. It is unbelievable the amount of traffic on the web site, and I really appreciate it. I am hoping to continue making your visits here more enjoyable. Thanks again and I hope to see you soon. Tommy

Hi again; I just updated our calendar for the rest of the month. I will be adding some pictures of the guys and gal in the band, hopefully this weekend. We are hoping to get some nice pictures down at the Herndon Legion. As time goes on I will be filling you in on a little information about the group. Hope to see you soon. Tommy

Aug. 16,7 to 10 pm. Hilltop Inn. RT 642, Mausdale, Pa. Aug. 20, 8 to 11 pm, Herndon American Legion post 504, Rt 147 south of Sunbury. Aug. 26, 6 to 9 pm. Washingtonville Fire Co. Carnival, Strawbridge Rd., Washingtonville, Pa. Aug. 27, 6 to 10 pm. Dutch Country Inn, Reedsville, Pa. Buffet and open menu. I believe we will be doing every friday in Sept. at the Washingtonville Fire Co. from 7 to 10 pm. Thank You. Tommy

Hi everyone; It sure is good to be back in touch with all the fans out there, especially with some really great news. For the last couple of years I have been doing some private parties and campgrounds with Spike Stamm and Smooth Country, and recently they asked me to join the group permanently. Smooth Country is a really great bunch of musicians, and they are a great bunch of guys too. They have all been in some other great bands around the Danville to Sunbury area and have recently decided to start their own group specializing in traditional country music. I am sure you will all enjoy the music we play and you will also enjoy being in the company of some really wonderfull people. I have lots more interesting news about the band and what we have planned for the near future, but I will post another letter shortly. I am getting ready to go play with the gang as I write this, but if you go to the calendar, I have the schedule for this month posted. Thanks for your patience over the last couple of years, and thanks for being such great fans. Tommy

Hi. Its been a while. Had some health issues, but I've been slowly improving, so I thought I'd better get busy. I did get some more recording done. We just released 2 more new albums, but only for the local fans. I did an album of "My Memories" which includes a nice list of songs that I grew up with, and another album of all instrumentals, which is also a list of songs that I grew up with and first learned to play. I'm quite excited about the 2 albums as they will bring back some memories to my early, local fans. They will be available in the next week or so at Carrathers Hoagies on summerhill ave. in Berwick, at Shannon Tires on west front st., Route 11 in Berwick, and at Schoolhouse Music, on Route 11 between Bloomsburg and Danville. Now I am working on 2 more albums I'd been thinking about for some time, but just didn't get around to doing. One album is already started of all new, original country songs, and the other is an album of Country Gospel, which I have also already done some work on. I am hoping to be able to have them done and released this coming fall or winter. These albums will be released on the internet so I am excited about getting some new songs written and recorded. If my health holds out and the Good Lords willing, I will be back here on a more regular basis this coming year. I do want to thank all of you for coming here for a visit and for having the patience to continue coming back when I haven't been able to write back to you. Thank You again and God Speed. Tommy

Hi everyone; This sure is an exciting time in my life. I told you about how much fun we had at the Crossing, in Jan., and how many old friends and fans showed up. Well, we are going back on Sat. March 6. I sure do hope to see all of our fans again, and hope the weather is as good to us as it was in Jan. This time we are starting at 9pm. and playing til 1am. A half hour earlier, for the benefit of those who have to get home earlier. Again, thanks for a great new year. Tommy

WOW!!!!! What a night. First of all I want to thank all of you fans who came to support us. I saw so many fans that I haven't seen in years, and you remembered me. Thank you so much. We sure did have us a great time. Best of all they are bringing us back next month again. WOW. We have some dates to straighten out and as soon as we get our dates to match we will let you know. Again thanks for the warm reception. I mean the hot reception. It sure was great. Hope to see you again next month.

Hi Everyone; We sure did have a great time at the dance for the kids, at the Berwick VFW. I would like to thank every one of you for coming out and supporting us in this event. It was also a pleasure working with Covert Action. They sure are a wonderful, professional group, and they sure are fun to watch. It sure was nice to see you all there, and it looks like we might just have a new group of Country Travelers. I was fortunate to have a great bunch of musician friends to help me out at the dance, and they enjoyed it so much, that we are doing some more shows coming up shortly. On sat.,Jan. 23rd. we will be at the Crossroads, in Mt. Top. Hope to see some of you there. We also have some other things in the works, and we will let you know as soon as things are finalized. We also got some decent pictures to put up on the web. As soon as we get some really good band pictures we will put them up, but for now these will do to get everybody acquainted with the group. Again, thanks for your support. Tommy

Hi everybody; I just heard from Sandra Kashner and we are playing for the dance to help financially strapped children have a great christmas. The dance is Sunday evening starting at 4pm. Covert Action will be playing from 4 til 6:00 pm and we will be playing from 7 til 9:30. It sure sounds like a fun evening and I hope to see you all there. Dance is Sunday evening, Nov. 15th. so plan ahead for a fun evening of great country music. We would also appreciate it if you would bring a christmas present for a child. It could be a toy, clothing, blanket, quilts or something that you think a needy child could use to make life a little more pleasant. Thank you in advance and God Bless You. ------ Oh, the dance will be at the Berwick V.F.W. just like last year. See you all there. Tommy

Hi everyone; Wow!! Every time I think I've finally got things under control something else pops up. My computer decided to take a vacation, then my phone line decided to leave town, then my security system said if everyone else is leavin town, I might as well go too. Well;;; I'm still not sure exactly what is going on, but I did manage to get back on track a little bit and am trying to get some new information up. I did manage to put some more photos of my past band members. Boy, I didn't realize we had so many different band members over the years. We sure did have a lot of fun though. If I can keep this thing up and running, I will try to get some more pictures up, and will try to catalog them into groups and hopefully date them as close as I can remember. Then I hope to get back to writing another page of my life on this road that I travel. Thanks for being so patient. God Bless all of you.

This story began to take shape on april 13, 1969, my oldest daughters' birthday. We had planned a small birthday party for her that afternoon, but as things usually go in my life, I was busy doing some landscaping around the house. We had a small stream running around the back of the house, and every time it would rain we would have a bigger and deeper gulley in our back yard. Well, we were in a good weather mode, and there wasn't any rain in sight, so I thought I'd better get this project done once and for all. It was a beautiful sunday and my daughter kept coming out and wanted to get the party started, but I told her I had to get this lawn raked and the grass seed sewn. Well, it kept getting later and later in the afternoon, and finally my wife came out and said we needed to get this birthday party started. She suggested taking the following day off work. Well, I was a stubborn old coot and I kept on working on the yard until I finally got the grass seed sewn. I figured I could spread the straw around the following evening, so I finally went in and got cleaned up for my daughters party. It turned out to be an evening party instead of an afternoon party. The interesting thing about this story is, If I would have listened to my wife and had taken off work the following morning, I would not have been in that terrible accident. I will always wander in the back of my mind what would have happened if I would have listened to what my wife and my daughter were trying to tell me that day. Life is what it is and we just have to learn to make the most of what we are offered. I was in a terrible accident , but what happened after that accident had a profound impact on my life, and the way I looked at life, forever. Some of my fondest memories came as a result of that accident. I may never have had the opportunity to go to Nashville, or I may never have experienced all the interesting things that developed as a result of that accident. Then again, thats the rest of the story, so I hope you will tune in again next week for another page of the Tommy Rynick story.

Hi; I am still trying to figure out how to best utilize this website, but I feel like I've got a bit of an idea I'd like to share with you. To start this journey, I will have to begin with how the cd, "This Road I Travel " came about. On april 14, 1969, I was on my way to work like so many mornings before, but this morning was about to change my life forever. I was driving down the road thinking about how I was going to begin my day at work, when I was approaching a wide curve in the road, and a car came around that curve, heading right at me. I had no place to go, but to lay on the brakes and hope for the best. The next thing I knew, I was being led out of my truck by a close neighbor, Herb Mowery. He got me into his car and was heading for the Berwick Hospital. Herb kept talking to me, trying to keep me alert as he was driving, and I was answering him as best as I could. I don't think he could understand a thing I was saying, as my mouth was smashed like a bag of potatoe chips. I remember Herb talking to me all the way down through Nescopeck and onto the Berwick-Nescopeck bridge. As we approached the Berwick side of the bridge, I must have passed out, as I didn't remember anything else until I woke up in the hospital and my wife and some nurses were there beside my bed trying to explain what had happened. Well, let me tell you something right now, what happened was, I was in a real bad accident. But what really happened was, as Paul Harvey would say is,"Thats the rest of the story". As the days turned into weeks, and I began to get some strength back, I began to get more and more restless. I just wanted to get out of that hospital. But, that was not going to happen. My face was all smashed in and I was wrapped up like a Mummy. I needed surgery, but I had to regain more strength before they could operate on me. So, I had to endure the countless days of sitting around in a hospital room, where all there was to do was eat and sleep, and feel miserable. Until!!! My brother in law, Terry Bennett came in one day and said, I know what you need; Your Guitar. The next day he brought me my trusty flattop and the rest of the story began. I picked up that guitar and began trying to sing a song I had never heard before. Yes, I was trying to sing, but my head was wrapped up every which way but loose, and I couldn't even talk let alone try to sing. What I did was go over and over this song in my head that I had never heard before. Now I had written a few songs before, and I had to just pick out a situation and sit down and write something about that situation until I had a song written. But this was fifferent. The words and the music just kept on coming to me. Finally, I asked a nurse for some paper and a pencil, which she brought in for me, and I just began to write down all the words that were in my head. This eventually became the first inspirational song I had ever written, "Jesus was riding in the passenger seat". This story just keeps on getting more and more interesting the longer it goes, and I still don't know for sure where its going. But, I know one thing for sure, it sure is fun, and getting to know Jesus a little better, has made my life more interesting and more fulfilling than I could ever have imagined. Thanks for stopping by, and listening to my rambling, but I am writting this story as I go along, and I hope to have another part written for next week. I hope you will come back to see where this road goes. Thanks again.

I want to appologize to you for the fact that I had to turn off the guestbook, because unscrupulous drug companies were taking over the entire section to get free advertising for their drugs. I am sick of seeing all the drug ads on tv, and now I cannot run my website without them trying to monopolize it. Thank you for your understanding. Hopefully in the future, I will be able to utilize it again. Thanks again, Tommy.

Hi everyone; I just got a nice note from Randy Hess, remember I told you he used to play pedal steel guitar in the country travelers. Well he just sent me a link to a great website in Nashville where you can hear some of the songs from his girlfriends new cd. Randy is producing the cd and playing a lot of music on the cd. The link is www.digitalrodeo.com/danimorrill. Check it out and don't forget to check out another old friend of mine, Webb Kline at www.digitalrodeo.com/WebbKline. Check them both out. You won't be sorry. More later. Tommy

Hi again; Just wanted to say thanks again for all you folks coming to see what is going on in our lives. At the moment we are busy as can be still trying to get an album done so we can get some new music on here. But the big news I'd like to share with you is about some of the guys I used to work with. Two of my really great friends are now living in or near Nashville, Tenn. Randy Hess played pedal steel guitar in my band several years ago, then went on to nashville where he eventually worked for Tom T. Hall, then for Trace Adkins, and now is on tour with Kelly Pickler, who is opening for Brad Paisley on his tour. Another really great friend of mine just recently moved to Nashville, and is doing fine in the area and has a really neat spot on the internet at http;//digitalrodeo.com/Webb Kline. Check out his music for yourself. He is one of the most outstanding piano players I have ever had the chance to work with, and he plays a real mean dobro too. Check him out. See you again soon. Tommy

I just asked some of you to let a message on the quest page, and someone did, plus, we're getting some real nice emails. Thank you so much. I know there is a lot I could do to make this place a little more cozy, so how about some ideas. I sure could use some help. And hey, we're also on itunes, where you can download just the songs you want, instead of the whole album. Remember, the profits from "this road I travel" are going to a very good cause, so please help me out. Thanks again. Tommy.

Hi; Thanks again for stopping by. We have just passed the 15 visits per hour, and no one is leaving any messages in the guestbook. I am asking you, please leave a short message to let us know what you think of our website. We want to know if you like it or if you don't. Please let us know so we can make the changes needed to make it more interesting. I am sorry I haven't been doing much here lately, but its been one thing after another keeping me busy other places. We have some interesting things coming up in the near future if everything goes as planned. Please hang in there with us, and you know, you can buy the cd's at cd baby. The money is going to a very worthwhile charity. Thank You. Tommy