Creating Tumble Home has been one of the biggest challenges and accomplishments in Molly Thomas’s 30-year music career. The initial plan for Tumble Home was to write and record ten songs in four weeks. After fifteen months, a near-fatal car accident and recovery, multiple song revisions, and an unrelated emergency and hospital stay, Tumble Home has lived up to its name.

Thomas began the process of making Tumble Home by enlisting her long-time friend and co-writer/producer Ken Rose. The two had worked together remotely from their home studios for almost 20 years, but Tumble Home would be their first opportunity to start and finish a body of work in the same room. The album’s ten songs were written in two weeks, the old-school way with guitars, pen, and paper, on a porch overlooking Mobile Bay in Fairhope, Alabama. After the first two idyllic weeks of effortless flow, the pleasure cruise ended! Thomas and Rose were getting into the recording, finding a rhythm, and the songs were taking shape when Thomas was T-boned at an intersection and incapacitated for five months. The unexpected “disaster” was a blessing in disguise, inspiring not only the song “Crash” but also giving Thomas the opportunity to view life from a new perspective, allowing the songs to percolate a bit longer. It was as if the songs said, "Now that we are born we are going to let you know exactly how we should be raised and presented to our listeners.”

Tumble Home, an album the two have categorized as “cinematic folk,” is an honest, introspective, and fun musical journey inviting listeners to explore emotional challenges, resilience, and hope. Its opening track, “Even the Strong,” reflects on the fragility of strength and how we all need someone to lean on, something which regularly goes unnoticed when looking at events from the outside in. Thomas’s lush strings on “Even The Strong” are a theme throughout Tumble Home and are an integral part of her sound.

“I Am A Wave” was the first song written for Tumble Home. Coming from the voice of a wave, it is the love story and friendship of two waves moving through the ocean, separating and reuniting as a result of the tide. “I Am A Wave” is an example of Thomas’s use of aquatic and nature themes viewed through humanity and connection. Like waves, we move, tumble, crash, stand up, drift apart, and come together.

“1839” was the year when the Fairhope region was at the height of Southern pottery culture. Thomas took Rose down to the Montrose beach, where hundreds of years of pottery relics were strewn across the shore. The hidden treasure and history on that beach inspired Thomas and Rose to write a song about the potters and the fires of their kilns. The ancient potters created not only the functional pottery of the era but also the bricks and mortar that supported the area’s southern architecture.

Tumble Home is not a one-dimensional album, and the track “Sorry,” an up-tempo indie rocker, is a humorous confessional about Thomas’s apologetic nature. It was almost left off of the album when Thomas had doubts about sharing this vulnerable perspective. Tumble Home is a powerful, dreamy, thought-provoking musical journey where Thomas’s dynamic vocals and instrumentation, combined with Rose’s production transport us through inner and outer worlds.

Mississippi native, Thomas, has made her home in Point Clear, Alabama on the Mobile Bay, after living several years in Nashville, Tennessee, where she performed with many noteworthy artists. Thomas has recorded and performed internationally, including performances at The Ryman Auditorium, Los Angeles’s El Rey Theatre, late-night performances on David Letterman, and Jay Leno’s Tonight Show, with folk icon Todd Snider, who added a guest vocal to Tumble Home’s “Tender Girl.” Thomas’s violin, string arrangements, and vocals have been featured on recordings and/or performances with Guster, Todd Snider, The White Buffalo, Will Hoge, Tommy Talton, Atom Orr, Matthew Ryan, Mando Saenz….

Rick Hirsch - guitarist and producer at In Sync Music Production® (Los Angeles, CA.) and Studio H2O (Mobile, AL).  The tracks* heard here are tracks he has produced, either his songs and music, or that of different artists he has worked with or are
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