Hi, my name is Thom McCarthy, and I love to play music. I was born in a little coal mining town called Locust Gap, PA, but I moved to Philadelphia to pursue a pipe dream. It’s hard for me to say exactly what I sound like, but I’ve borrowed a bit from the influences of Brian Wilson, Otis Redding, Tom Waits, Hank Williams, and a healthy spoonful of Gypsy Jazz. I studied some classical guitar for a couple years at a University, decided that I liked it, but my true talents lie in composition and legible handwriting.
"..endearingly weird.."
-Philadelphia Weekly
"McCarthy is: (at once) angst-y, literate, earnest and sentimental..."
-Phrequency.com
