Tyrone Wells' New Single

Everyone listens to different types of music but that's only half the story of this post. Tyrone Well's new single, "Patience", is available on iTunes today, and the real reason I'm mentioning this to you is not solely because of the music itself.

I really do like the new song (just as much as some of my other favorites of his: Dream Like New York, Seabreeze), but the real reason is that he is trule one of the most genuine, caring guys I've ever met and in my opinion he deserves as much support and success as he can get. Trust me, if you met him you would feel the same way.

He was at my parent's house last year before a show and I remember talking with him about the fact that he was married. I asked him how his handlers felt about that, and he said the only resistance he got to that was from a DJ at a radio station. The DJ said that he shouldn't mention the fact that he was married, or say hi to his wife on air, for reasons we can all guess about the way that celebrity goes in this world.

And my guess is that this is not an uncommon request from people whose success depends on the marketability of their clients. Tyrone being who he is, his response was something like "Absolutely not." That story has stuck with me since. I'll never hide my marital status for any reason because I want to show off that I bagged me a good one, but there have been a lot of times in my life where I have hid certain aspects of my life to make my persona more "acceptable" to those who I was talking to. It's not right, and I look at Tyrone as the kind of guy who has the strength to always be exactly who he is no matter what the situation. Given his credentials, I never would have expected him to be so nice.

Even when we met him 5 months later in Austin, he took time out of his day to talk to Heather and I in the back of the club he was playing at. And that goes for some of the other guys in his band, too: Jason, Mark, and Aaron.

So anyway, go to iTunes, or at least go to his MySpace page and check out some of his stuff there. Some qualities transcend musical preference.