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Tone & Spark

About Me

After writing tunes and playing great music with different folks in Austin, Nashville and around Virginia, Jeff Thompson started Tone & Spark in 2004. Last year Jeff was asked by Richmond-based band Offering to play lead guitar and contribute new material and was blessed to perform with some amazing folks in that band. Jeff wrote, played and toured with Offering throughout 2007, but recently returned to Tone & Spark, looking to work on original acoustic material. In November, Jeff started working with different vocalists and musicians, developing a new sound that combines Tone and Spark's traditional acoustic sound with more Texas blues influence. Tone & Spark are recording a new CD over the next few months, with wonderful contributions from area musicians. They started performing again in March 2008, and the current line-up includes acoustic guitar, cello, and vocals.Please check out our Blogs, and feel free to contribute your ideas to the new Music Studio project.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/10/2007
Band Website: being remodeled...
Band Members: Jeff Thompson on guitars, and featured vocalists and musicians delivering the "Spark"
Influences: Over the Rhine, James Taylor, Eva Cassidy, Paul Simon, Chris Duarte, Nina Simone, Smiths, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Junior Brown, Egberto Gismonti, Wes Montgomery, Adrian Belew, Andy Summers, Aaron Copeland, Christel Alsos, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tortoise, Aimee Mann, Tommy Emmanuel, Eric Johnson, Willie Nelson, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Johnny Cash, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Victor Krauss, Vince Gill, Frank Zappa, Django Reinhart, Sarah MacLachlan, Prokofiev, Monte Montgomery, George Gershwin, Steve Howe, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Lang, Ben Kweller, Maurice Ravel, Warren Zevon, Pixies, Tony Levin, Roscoe Beck, Sting, Shawn Colvin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Rilo Kiley, The Rakes, Pete Yorn, Spoon, Elvis Costello, Razorlight, Amos Lee, The Tubes, Keith Jarrett, English Beat, Martin Sexton, Blue Nile, Alison Krause, Cake, Bill Bruford, Brian Ferry, Pat Methany, Hendrix, Ben Harper, Eliksir, Sheryl Crow, Joseph Arthur, Talk Talk, Fiona Apple, Billie Holiday, Morrisey, King Crimson, Leonard Cohen, Billy Joel, Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles, Toni Price, Ella Fitzgerald, Glenn Miller, Nat King Cole, Patsy Kline, Billy Talent, Sade, Sinead O'Connor, Jane Siberry, Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, Norah Jones, Stanley Jordan, Bela Fleck, Chet Atkins, Victor Wooten, Buddy Guy, many more...
Sounds Like: A bunch of stringed instruments out for a Sunday drive with the top down...
Record Label: Fundio Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The New Studio

Folks,For those of you have always wanted to build a home studio, listen up. We're going to be building out a home music studio over the next few months, and you're all invited to help. No, you won't ...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:21:00 GMT

Thank you all so much...

Friends,Less than a month ago, we went live with our Tone & Spark MySpace site. As of this weekend, we have over 1000 new friends - people who took the time to recognize the efforts of a fledgling ban...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:40:00 GMT

Sustained...

I wrote this song last month, as a love song to my wife. I worked out the music shortly thereafter, and have been working on getting it recorded over the last couple of weeks. Let me know what you thi...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:38:00 GMT