Tom Warnick & the World's Fair play a cross between old, weird Americana and a wild mixture of rockabilly/surf/folk-rock/country. Song topics include impostors, kissing stands, drunk gunfighters, fire eaters, Phineas Gage and punch-drunk love, all written with a razor-sharp sense of humor. They are among the top live acts of the NYC music scene and have performed at the Knitting Factory, the Slipper Room, the late great Freddy's, the Parkside Lounge and Rooftop Films.

Their new album, "The Great Escape," was written and recorded after Tom was diagnosed with a brain tumor--after suffering a grand mal seizure in New York City in spring 2006. During the eight-hour-long surgery to remove it, he suffered a stroke, paralyzing his entire left side. A week later, he suffered a blood clot in his right lung, but he survived that as well! After many months of physical therapy, daily radiation treatments and chemotherapy, he he returned to performing in August 2007, which he and the World’s Fair continue to do so today. (he was declared in remission in summer 2007. Hell yeah!)

From the liner notes of "The Great Escape":

You're Tom Warnick. You spent the past few years, starting in spring 2006, wondering if you'd still have your feet planted firmly on the earth, instead of six feet under it. But you battled through it all, fighting the good fight with a bellyful of moxie and a heart full of gumption, thanks in no small part to a knockout wife who's stronger than steel, sweeter than angel food cake and as forceful and unrelenting as the Mississippi River. Plus, it doesn't hurt that she's a looker!
So, after nearly kissed off by the world, TW &the World's Fair circled the wagons, regrouped and attacked with gusto--with guns a' blazin'--and these 10 new songs as deadly, sizzling bullets. You're Tom Warnick & the World's Fair--their message to you?

"See you on Boot Hill."

--Paul Stevens, somewhere in autumn 2009