TOM DYER & THE TRUE OLYMPIANS | Olympia: A True Story
CD (2022)

Tom Dyer’s musical celebration of his hometown, Olympia WA. This is a  40-song, 47 track, 3-CD album which includes an 80-page booklet.  By its own account it tells Olympia’s history over the past  2 million years. The collection was recorded over four years, including those of the COVID pandemic, and includes over 100 guest Olympia musicians. It’s full of Tom Dyer’s wit and quirky approach to everything he does.

DISC 1
Olympia Land Acknowledgement | It’s the Capital | The Land and the Water (Welcome to Olympia!) | People of the Water | The Founding | Bordeaux | Little Hollywood | Beer Town | Joseph Wohleb, Architect/Empty Buildings | Mima Mounds |  Mothballs and Mosquitos | Mill Town | It’s Mud | Exactly Eight Minutes of Olympia Rain and Frogs at Tom’s House
DISC 2
Let’s Have a Parade! |KGY Sports Jingle | Grandma Caught the Shark | Billy Frank Jr. | Tumwater Destroyed! | KXXO Jingle | The Evergreen Ballroom | Everybody Needs a Home | Runaway Train | Olympia Oysters | The Ballad of Margaret McKenny | The Null Set | William Winlock Miller | Jazz in Olympia | KGY Weather Jingle | A Deadly Wind | Exactly Eight Minutes of Olympia Birds at Tom’s House
DISC 3
A Bucketful of Weird (TESC) | I’m An Oly Bear | KAOS Station ID | It’s Still Pretty White (Getting Better) | Clammin’ (A Meditation) | Arts Walk (Mossy Bottom) | Satan Made Him Do It | Freeform Northwest Show Promo | Gronk! (If You Love Dinosaur) | Death at Mounts Road | Puget Sound Flatland Blues | Love Rock Revolution | Rachel Corrie (Activist) | Lacey’s Now the Biggest | Let It Rain | Olympia My Home