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Community organizing experience began at home in Chicago
as the fifth oldest of seventeen children.

Ability to harmonize & collaborate further honed by decades of playing piano, saxophone or bass fiddle in local bands.

34 years of continuous commitment to 12-Step recovery.
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Proud Pappa:

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Left to right:

LOUIE - Combining his culinary and artistic interests in the Big Apple and beyond.

FRANCES - A corporate  leader in marketing advanced technologies.

GEORGE - A proud pappa of Gus and Magnolia who earned his MBA school at University of Illinois.

CLARA - Proud mama of Jumpier, world traveler, surfer, rock climber and dog lover.
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Musically Inclined:

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   1970's 
             - On Tap
  
   1980's 
            - Shut Up & Dance
            - The Lingering Doubts
            - No Requests
   
   1990's 
            - Moonlight Swing Big Band
    
   2000's 
            - Confluence
            - Never Too Late Blues Band
    
   2010's 
            - Rhythm Method
            - Rollin Hazzard
            - Spectrum 7
            - Republicrats
                 

SAMPLES:
 
Rollin Hazzard
        -  Here I Am Again
        -  Help 
        -  Mustang Sally
        -  Done Somebody Wrong
        -  Spider in my Web
        -  Didn't Miss You At All (lyrics by Virgil Nichols/Music by RT)
        -  You Can't Judge A Book
        -  Summertime
        -  Shine

Rhythm Method:
    Studio recordings (12/12)
       -  Coming Back
        -  Zoot Suit Riot
        -  Sway

Rhythm Method: 
    Music on a Mission event raised $30K for local charities (2/4/12)
         -  Ain't No Sunshine
        -  Game of Love
        -  Heat Wave
 
Others...
       -   Song of Celebration (lyrics by Virgil Nichols/Music by RT)
       -   Tunnel Sax:  "Summertime"
       -   Falling Snow Falling
       -   New Love
       -   Last Tune
       -   Imagine (live in Golden Gate Park)​
       -   Cool Bossa Nova

OUTTAKES: The Omaha Sessions - Dad, John & Ed


RT Retrospective























       Mamma Tobin: Passing the Baton (click below)
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Poetry Corner:

  - Book Eighteen: Exploration

  - Book Seventeen: #Grampatime

  - Book Sixteen: Nothing Here 

  - Book Fifteen: Power of Possibility 

   - Book Fourteen: Detour(s)

   - Very Special Edition: Tribute(s) to Moira Tobin Wickes

   - Very Special Edition: DadBook

   - Book Thirteen: Carrying On

   - Book Twelve: Remembering To Remember

​   - Book Eleven: Thanks Giving

   - Book Ten: Happily Ever After Begins Here
 
   - Book Nine: Reflections (or projections?)

   - Book Eight: Reverberation(s)  
 
   - Book Seven: Cause for Pause

   - Book Six: Still Crusin'    

   - Book Five: Recurring Themes   

   - Book Four: Before & After    

    - Book Three: Reflections

    - Book Two: Introspection

    - Book One: Odes to Joy


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