Life can be a winding road yet sometimes one has to get through those twists and turns before arriving where one needs to be. Singer-songwriter Tom Freund considers this in his latest single, “Runaround,” off his latest album, “East of Lincoln,” self-released last year via his Surf Road Records imprint.
Freund cut his musical teeth in his teen and early adult years on jazz bass, guitar and vocals on New York City’s theater and club circuit while attending Columbia University and doing TV music work on the side. The wunderkind then followed the winds to fairer weather and soon after arriving at Pitzer College on the very east end of Los Angeles County, met his first songwriting soulmate Ben Harper and adjusted his meter to alt folk Americana, later joining up with roots rockers the Silos, then picking up a few side gigs (with Brit pub rocker Graham Parker and soul artist Bret Dennen), collaborations (with Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Victoria Williams, KT Tunstall, Diana Krall, Dave Matthews, Mandy Moore and Rachael Yamagata, among others) and more TV and film work.