Tom Burris

While Tom Burris long hoped to make his living as a writer, somewhere along the line towards becoming a novelist he discovered songwriting, and literature's loss became the gain of the singer-songwriter community. Born and raised in New York City, Burris relocated to Boston in the early 1990's, where he had landed a position teaching creative writing and planned to begin serious work on his first novel. However, while working on his fiction, Burris began to develop an interest in songwriting; looking for an outlet for his new musical material, Burris began busking with an acou...