Tom Cridland was encouraged to make his own music by a childhood obsession with The Beatles and the career of his friend, Nigel Olsson, Elton John's legendary drummer. Like Nigel, Tom started by learning drums by ear. He then began writing songs and got encouraged to sing them himself by Kenji Suzuki of Simply Red. He then taught himself the piano. When he started writing songs in 2019 he prolifically recorded over 100 of them in just a couple of months and immediately followed these sessions by playing a gig all 48 contiguous US states. This caught the attention of the legendary Grammy nominated "Philadelphia Soul" group, The Stylistics, who invited him to play with them at 19 concerts in the UK in October and November 2021.
One Single A Week condenses the 107 Tom Cridland songs written and recorded in 2019 into a double album of 33 tracks. In 2021 Tom worked with longtime Elton John musical director and guitarist, Davey Johnstone, on the songs "I Wanna Be Home Alone" and "Take Me Back". The same year Tom also recorded a duet version of his single, "Falling off the Rails", with the Australian singer songwriter, Alison Thorsteinsen.
