Local musician Womack this week’s featured poet
Hot Springs singer/songwriter Larry Womack will be this week’s feature for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea, 110 Central Ave.
The regular open mic session for all poets and songwriters begins at 6:30 p.m., and Womack will perform at 7 p.m. followed by a second round of open mic. Admission is free and open to all ages.
A native of Bristow, Okla., Womack discovered Hot Springs while touring the south as a professional musician.
“I came to Hot Springs to play music and fell in love with the city,” he said in a news release. “It has the broadest art community for a small town that I have ever experienced.”
Womack also fell in love with one of the local girls. He and Madelyn have been married for 36 years and have three children.
Since moving to Hot Springs in 1980 he has owned and operated two businesses — a recording studio and the internet provider Direclynx. Womack is currently a real estate agent with Hot Springs Realty.
A member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Womack is part of the choir and works with the youth choir. He also does missionary work in the middle highlands of Haiti helping to bring education and clean water to the village Colladere.
Around Hot Springs Womack is best known for his music. Over the years, he has played at nearly every music venue in the Spa City including the Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa and The Ohio Club. Currently, he performs every Sunday and Monday evening at The Ohio Club. Womack began writing in his early 20s.
“I have always been inspired to write about experiences in my life,” he said. “Most of the songs I have written are about love, both found and lost, because love is the driving force in life.”
His earliest musical inspiration was Eric Clapton. Womack’s music is influenced by the classic rock of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as early Delta blues, gospel and rockabilly.
“Lately I’ve been listening a lot to a singer/songwriter named Paul Thorn,” he said. “I like the way he puts ideas together. I also really like a group from northwest Arkansas called Arkansauce.”
Womack has recorded five albums of his original music. His latest, “The Natural Songs,” was released earlier this year. Copies of the CD will be available Wednesday.
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