Tommy Strazza
Songs From The Escape
By Gary Wien
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Boy meets girl… boy loses girl…
boy winds up writing an album
about losing girl… boy finds himself promoting the album to men
across the country who order razor
blades by mail. It’s the same old
story, right?
For Tommy Strazza it is.
Strazza turned the pain of heartbreak into a wonderful album
called Songs From The Escape,
which just happened to appear
in the Dollar Shave Club monthly
New Jersey Stage
newsletter and their blog. This
means that one of the best breaks
of his career came from the end of
a relationship. It may not kill the
pain, but it helps.
Heartbreak will always be a
source of inspiration. Songwriting is also a source of therapy and
provides a way to get over the
hurt. For Strazza, heartbreak not
only helped him write some of his
best songs, but largely contributed
to an album he never saw coming
October 2014
pg 98