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Tompall Glaser

Person · male · United States · Spalding · born 1933 · died 2013 · recording since 1973

American country singer (1933–2013)

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Also known as Thomas Paul Glaser · トンポール・グラサー

Debut: 1973
Recording span: 33 years
Release groups: 13
Timeline events: 12
Wiki language versions: 12

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Timeline

12 events▣ Album 9◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1

1930s
1. 3 September 1933 · Birth
  Born 1933-09-03
  source: wikidata
1970s
1. 1973 · Debut release
  Debut release: Charlie
  First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1973 · Album
  Album: Charlie
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1974 · Album
  Album: Take the Singer With the Song
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 1974 · Album
  Album: Tompall
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 1975 · Album
  Album: Tompall (Sings the Songs of Shel Silverstein)
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. 1976 · Album
  Album: The Great Tompall and His Outlaw Band
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 1977 · Album
  Album: Tompall and His Outlaw Band
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
8. 1977 · Album
  Album: The Wonder of It All
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
1980s
1. 1986 · Album
  Album: Nights on the Borderline
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2000s
1. 2006 · Album
  Album: Outlaw to the Cross
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2010s
1. 13 August 2013 · Death
  Died 2013
  source: wikidata

Biography

English biography352 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1337476645

Biography

Thomas Paul "TompallTompall1974 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracksA1I Ain't Lookin' for the Answers Anymore2:24A2Roll On2:47A3Mendocino2:22A4Country Gospel Good Book Rock & Roll2:24A5Put Another Log on the Fire2:16A6Musical Chairs2:59B1Grab a Hold3:12B2Echoes3:08B3Old New Orleans Custom3:28B4If I'm There3:08B5Oleander3:46" Glaser (September 3, 1933 – August 12, 2013) was an American country singer who was a key figure in the 1970s outlaw country movement.

Biography

Glaser was born in Spalding, Nebraska, the son of Alice Harriet Marie (née Davis) and Louis Nicholas Glaser. He was raised on a farm along with his brothers Jim and Chuck. Growing up, Glaser and his brothers performed music in local venues and radio stations.
In the 1950s he recorded as a solo artist. He and his brothers later formed a trio, Tompall & the Glaser Brothers. In 1957 they performed on Arthur Godfrey's television show. They also shared the bill with Patsy Cline at The Mint casino in Las Vegas November-December 1962.
Glaser's highest-charting solo single was Shel Silverstein's "Put Another Log on the Fire,” which peaked at Billboard Hot Country Singles’ (now Hot Country Songs) No. 21 in 1975. He and his brothers also reached number 2 on the country charts with Lovin' Her Was Easier (than Anything I'll Ever Do Again).
Tompall co-produced Waylon Jennings's influential 1973 album Honky Tonk Heroes, one of outlaw country’s first albums. Honky Tonk Heroes has been called a "milestone album in the breaking of the Nashville studio/recording system, a true watershed event in the music business."
Tompall appeared with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Jessi Colter on the 1976 album Wanted! The Outlaws, the first country album to be certified platinum.
In the 1970s his Nashville recording studio, Glaser Sound Studios, dubbed "Hillbilly Central," was considered the nerve center of the nascent outlaw country movement. Glaser ran the studio with his brothers and gave musicians control over what they recorded instead of their producers, unlike other Nashville studios of the time. Among the groundbreaking albums recorded at his studio were John Hartford's Aereo-Plain and Waylon Jennings' Dreaming My Dreams.
Glaser and his brothers also ran a music publishing company that allowed songwriters to retain ownership and control of their material, which was also unusual for the time period.
Glaser died on August 12, 2013, in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 79, after a long illness.

Discography & profile

Normalised profile

Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.

Normalised profile metrics with percentile rank
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	12	64.8th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	13	84th
Studio albums	9	90th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	12	88.9th
Recording span (years)	33	71.4th
Genres	4	84.7th

Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.

Discography (13 release groups · 9 studio albums)

Albums · 9

Charlie
1973 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 31:27
A1Charlie2:23
A2Mr. Lonesome3:30
A3An Ode To My Notorious Youth (Barred From Every Honkytonk)1:54
A4Loneliest Man3:15
A5I'll Fly Away Medley: I'll Fly Away / I Saw The Light3:30
B1Cowboys And Daddies3:30
B2Big Jim Colson2:45
B3Bad, Bad, Bad Cowboy2:10
B4Gideon Bible2:40
B5Let It Be Pretty1:55
B6Sold American3:55
Take the Singer With the Song
1974 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 28:18
A1Texas Law Sez1:54
A2Broken Down Momma2:06
A3Pass Me on By2:19
A4Willy the Wandering Gypsy & Me2:26
A5Lay Down Beside Me3:37
B1Take the Singer With the Song4:04
B2Honey Don't You Know2:31
B3The Good Lord Knows I Tried2:41
B4Breakdown (A long Way From Home)3:05
B5I'll Fly Away Medley: I Saw the Light / I'll Fly Away / Love Lifted Me3:35
Tompall
1974 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 31:54
A1I Ain't Lookin' for the Answers Anymore2:24
A2Roll On2:47
A3Mendocino2:22
A4Country Gospel Good Book Rock & Roll2:24
A5Put Another Log on the Fire2:16
A6Musical Chairs2:59
B1Grab a Hold3:12
B2Echoes3:08
B3Old New Orleans Custom3:28
B4If I'm There3:08
B5Oleander3:46
Tompall (Sings the Songs of Shel Silverstein)
1975 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 35:26
1I Ain't Lookin' for the Answers Anymore2:17
2Roll on3:10
3Mendocino (Come With Me to Mendocino)3:15
4Country Gospel Goodbook Rock'n Roll3:06
5Put Another Log on the Fire (Male Chauvinist National Anthem)2:34
6Musical Chairs2:57
7Grab a Hold3:00
8Echoes4:00
9Old New Orleans Custom3:19
10If I'm There3:00
11Oleander4:48
The Great Tompall and His Outlaw Band
1976 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 34:56
A1The Wild Side of Life2:59
A2We Live in Two Different Worlds3:20
A3I Can't Remember3:24
A4When It Goes, It's Gone Girl3:03
A5The Hunger3:34
B1Time Changes Everything6:41
B2If I'd Only Come and Gone2:54
B3Good Hearted Woman3:09
B4West Canterbury Subdivision Blues3:14
B5Tompall in "D" on the Ukelele0:44
B6Broken Down Mama1:54
Tompall and His Outlaw Band
1977 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 31:54
A1You Can Have Her5:28
A2Release Me2:43
A3Tennessee Blues4:03
A4Come Back Shane2:41
A5It'll Be Her3:22
B1It Ain't Fair Medley: Look What Thoughts Will Do / Pretty Words / It Ain't Fair (That It Ain't Right)4:07
B2Sweethearts or Strangers2:20
B3Let My Fingers Do the Walking (Late Night Show)2:22
B4I Just Want to Hear the Music4:48
The Wonder of It All
1977 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 31:03
A1It Never Crossed My Mind3:12
A2The Bad Times3:26
A3What Are We Doing2:38
A4How I Love Them Old Songs2:55
A5On Second Thought3:24
B1Drinking Them Beers3:33
B2My Mother Was a Lady2:32
B3Duncan and Brady2:00
B4Easy on My Mind3:11
B5The Wonder of It All4:12
Nights on the Borderline
1986 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 30:51
A1Nights on the Borderline2:29
A2Mama Don't Let Your Big Boy Play Outside2:22
A3(For Every Inch I've Laughed) I Cried a Mile3:03
A4Put Another Log on the Fire2:39
A5Up Where We Belong3:50
B1I Don't Care Anymore3:20
B2The Auction3:09
B3Lovely Lucy2:25
B4The Streets of Baltimore4:05
B5'Till the Right One Comes Along3:29
Outlaw to the Cross
2006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 37:56
1Stand Beside Me2:50
2Where No One Stands Alone2:41
3What a Friend3:07
4Lean on Jesus3:47
5Great Speckled Bird3:07
6Life's Railway to Heaven4:50
7When They Ring Those Golden Bells4:12
8Just a Closer Walk With Thee3:55
9Let the Lower Lights Be Burning2:42
10Peace in the Valley3:49
11Glory Train to Heaven2:56

Album · 4

Album release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	Notes	First release
1992	The RogueSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 22 tracks · 1:15:07 1The Rogue3:01 2Tears on My Pillow2:46 3Forever and Ever3:27 4Shackles & Chains3:25 5My Pretty Quadroon4:34 6Lean on Me4:08 7I'll Hold You in My Heart3:19 8True Love3:32 9Open Arms3:47 10I Love You So Much It Hurts3:22 11Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy2:40 12You Can't Borrow Back Any Time3:28 13Like an Old Country Song3:27 14Sad Country Songs1:55 15What a Town3:34 16Don't Think You're Too Good for Country Music?3:46 17Unwanted Outlaw3:06 18The Man You Think to See2:47 19When I Dream3:53 20Burn Georgia Burn3:38 21Billy Tyler3:33 22Carry Me On3:59	Compilation	6 April 1992
1994	The OutlawSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:10:03 1It Never Crossed My Mind3:15 2The Bad Times3:24 3What Are We Doin' With the Rest of Our Lives2:41 4How I Love Them Old Songs2:55 5On Second Thought3:26 6Drinking Them Beers3:36 7My Mother Was a Lady2:36 8Duncan and Brady2:03 9Easy on My Mind3:15 10The Wonder of It All4:14 11Storms Never Last4:10 12You Can Have Her5:30 13Release Me2:45 14Tennessee Blues4:04 15Come Back Shane2:43 16It'll Be Her3:23 17It Ain't Fair Medley: Look What Thoughts Will Do / Pretty Words / It Ain't Fair4:08 18Sweethearts or Strangers2:22 19Let My Fingers Do the Walking2:24 20I Just Want to Hear the Music4:49 21My Live Would Make a Damn Good Country Song2:20	Compilation	27 June 1994
2006	My Notorious Youth: Hillbilly Central #1Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 23 tracks · 1:06:19 1Charlie2:29 2Mr. Lonesome3:30 3An Ode to My Notorious Youth1:55 4Loneliest Man3:18 5I'll Fly Away Medley, Part 13:33 6Cowboys & Daddies3:35 7Big Jim Colson2:54 8Bad, Bad, Bad Cowboy2:15 9Gideon Bible2:48 10Let It Be Pretty1:58 11Sold American3:43 12Texas Law Sez1:53 13Broken Down Momma2:06 14Pass Me on By2:19 15Willy the Wandering Gypsy & Me2:25 16Lay Down Beside Me3:37 17Take the Singer With the Song4:04 18Honey, Don't You Know?2:31 19The Good Lord Knows I Tried2:41 20Breakdown (A long Way From Home)3:05 21I'll Fly Away Medley, Part 23:35 22Love Stoned2:20 23Will the Circle Be Unbroken?3:45	Compilation	17 January 2006
2006	Another Log on the Fire: Hillbilly Central #2Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 24 tracks · 1:17:03 1I Ain't Lookin' for the Answer Anymore2:20 2Roll On3:10 3Mendocino3:15 4Country, Gospel, Good Book, Rock & Roll3:07 5Put Another Log on the Fire2:34 6Musical Chairs2:59 7Grab a Hold3:00 8Echoes4:08 9Old New Orleans Custom3:29 10If I'm There3:10 11Oleander4:53 12The Wild Side of Life3:01 13We Live in Two Different Worlds3:22 14I Can't Remember3:28 15When It Goes, Its Gone Girl3:05 16The Hunger3:36 17Time Changes Everything5:40 18If I'd Only Come & Gone2:56 19Good Hearted Woman3:13 20West Canterbury Subdivision Blues3:24 21Tompall in D on the Ukulele0:49 22Broken Down Mama1:57 23Loving You Again2:14 24T for Texas4:13	Compilation	28 February 2006

Stats & PK

Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Tompall Glaser head-to-head →

Tompall Glaser metrics with percentile rank among published artists
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	12	64.8th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	13	84th
Studio albums	9	90th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	12	88.9th
Recording span (years)	33	71.4th
Genres	4	84.7th

Awards & honours

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Line-up

Band line-up and band memberships with dates
Name	From	To	Role
Tompall & the Glaser Brothers(band)	—	present	original
Tompall Glaser and His Outlaw Band(band)	—	present	eponymous,original

Where this record comes from

portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tompall_Glaser_1977.JPG
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0c72f4e1-30db-41ef-b29e-8c168c39665e
discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0c72f4e1-30db-41ef-b29e-8c168c39665e
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2441201
genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2441201
seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tompall_Glaser
biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tompall_Glaser

Why this artist is in the database

List of country music performers

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country music

1 shared genre tag · debut 1972, 1 year apart · from United States

35 wikis

Timeline

1930s

Born 1933-09-03

1970s

Debut release: Charlie

Album: Charlie

Album: Take the Singer With the Song

Album: Tompall

Album: Tompall (Sings the Songs of Shel Silverstein)

Album: The Great Tompall and His Outlaw Band

Album: Tompall and His Outlaw Band

Album: The Wonder of It All

1980s

Album: Nights on the Borderline

2000s

Album: Outlaw to the Cross

2010s

Died 2013

Biography

Biography

Biography

Discography & profile

Normalised profile

Discography (13 release groups · 9 studio albums)

Albums · 9

Album · 4

Stats & PK

Awards & honours

Line-up

Where this record comes from

Why this artist is in the database

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