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Thomas Bailey

"...simply one of my favorite singers."-O.T.Herald

About Me


Traditional music is a centuries old dangling conversation. It ties the young and old, secular and holy together; and in the case of the American idiom, bridges the gap between the various cultures that make up the great melting pot.
Thomas Bailey has been a part of this conversation from childhood, which first began with an interest in 17th & 18th century music of Colonial America, to the old time fiddle tunes of his hometown region of Southwest Virginia, to the urban sounds of his school age years and back again.
As a recognizable face in the current Old Time Music scene and festival circuit, he's garnered awards for his singing and fiddle and guitar playing. On his self-produced debut solo CD "Brilliancy," he highlighted this multi-instrumental talent. These tracks represent a picture of the exciting ongoing dialogue in American Old Time Music into the 21st century.
You can find it on iTunes
"Perdue cocktail hour, Clifftop 1999"

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Music:

Member Since: 7/13/2005
Band Website: cdbaby.com/cd/tbailey
Band Members: Thomas Bailey sings and plays
Gibson Montana's Legends series "historic 1937 L-00 reissue"
fiddle, stringbass and mandolin.

~ David Bass - fiddle
~ Frank Lee - banjo
~Meredith McIntosh - stringbass
~ Joe 'bass' DeJarnette - stringbass
~ Tammy Sawyer - stringbass
~ Benny Gould - stringbass
~ Rhys Jones -bullshit detector, fiddle, guitar, banjo, vocals
~ Christina Wheeler - fiddle, guitar, vocals
~ Cory Seznic - banjo, guitar
~ Parrish Ellis - guitar, ukelele
* Mark Rubin - stringbass, good humor

The band with no name: Big Apple Bluegrass Festival 2002

(R to L) Richie Stearns , TB,
Jason Sypher , James Connant

Influences: Listen to, but nescisarily influenced by: insects, birdsongs, & white noise. John Hartford, Clark Kessinger, Riley Puckett, John Ashby, Allison Krauss, the Mona's session(Eamon O'Leary, Patrick Orceau, Dana Lyn), John Dougherty, Doc Watson, Maybell Carter, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Christian, Eddie Lange, Lester Young, Lowe Stokes.
Sounds Like: Doc Watson, The Freighthoppers, The Forge Mountain Diggers
Record Label: Briarpatch
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Clifftop 07 memories

 Hello friends and welcome the newest entry of SEND MONEY/internet busking. I am back home in NYC for a brief break before heading back to rock out in E.Tenn./W.NC with The Forge Mountain Di...
Posted by Thomas Bailey on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:05:00 PST

Autumn Wind gigbags and case covers

 Thrilled by the compact & lightweight lightweight design of  Eastman strings' metrocase. They're they're perfect alternative to a gigbag for my 1933 Gibson L50 and "legends se...
Posted by Thomas Bailey on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:31:00 PST

Barndance

Dear readers,  You guys are well aware that I starve to afford the commute to Western NC, where I play guitar with the Forge Mountain Diggers. The show was on the other foot this past week w...
Posted by Thomas Bailey on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:37:00 PST

I'll miss you Clellan

   I can't remember how excatly I met Tommy Jarrell's cousin, Clellan; and neither did he. He was a good freind during my weird little sojourn in Richmond, Va at the end of the cen...
Posted by Thomas Bailey on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:32:00 PST

How The Hippies Ruin't Hillbilly Music

  Having grown up in Salem, Va with my Granddad and Great-Granddad being song collecting Southside Virginia country doctors; let's say I have my own opinions on the subject. However strong the ur...
Posted by Thomas Bailey on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:50:00 PST

Life on Lars

  Augusta Metro Spirit ..> ..> Issue #18.33 :: 03/15/2007 - 03/21/2007 Whoop and holler..> Forge Mountain Diggers' raucous sets set audience screaming BY JOSH RUFFIN You know it's g...
Posted by Thomas Bailey on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:27:00 PST

RA

   This has gone from plain crass to sublime to ridiculous. I'd like to point out here that we as individuals have a divine right to be as crude as we like, and I don't see the point in apol...
Posted by Thomas Bailey on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:55:00 PST

Another borrowed blog

 Dave Brockie aka, Oderus Urungerus; the rubber monster frontman for GWAR - who's brainchild DEATH PIGGY remains the high water mark of the Richmnod, Va hardcore scene - has a personal site that'...
Posted by Thomas Bailey on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:23:00 PST

Borrowed Blog

from klezmer fiddler, Bob Cohen's Blog - DUMNEAZU Sunday, January 07, 2007 --> --> Breaking Up Christmas! Like a lot of folks who play Klezmer music, I got my start playing American traditional f...
Posted by Thomas Bailey on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:56:00 PST

new tune up...

  Pardon me while I blow my own horn on behalf of or little Old Time Music scene here in NYC.  There has always been a fair share of quality fiddlers and banjo pickers here since the 1850s o...
Posted by Thomas Bailey on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:39:00 PST