Welcome to One Toke Tom, the personal website of Tom Shipley
Hello, and thank you for visiting my website. I’ve been a content creator all my life, and now have a way to share it with you.
-Tom Shipley
Tom's Latest Stories
Hollywood Part 1
Recently I did a series of stories called “Folkies.” In it, I talked about folk-rock and its origins in the coffee houses of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The stories were surprisingly... Read More
Streets Of America
I do my best to keep politics out of my posts on One Toke Tom and Facebook. There is a song Brewer and Shipley wrote that, like some others, could be taken as... Read More
Folkies (Part 4)
The time had come to start thinking realistically about my future. I had been looking for a break since I became a musical gypsy after graduation. Where, I wondered, was home. Toronto, Cleveland,... Read More