‘Blind Tom stood before the immense and cultured audience in all of his magnificence, a very Hercules in stature. The enormous building was packed to the doors and outside was a seething, struggling and perspiring mob of people, begging for even standing room, but several thousand disappointed people were turned away unable even to get in earshot of this prince of pianists. Tom’s playing held the people spellbound from start to finish; the audience hesitated even to applause, so rapt were the listeners of this great mastery of harmony…’
audio excerpt for The Ballad of Blind Tom
Cat no: 3717