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About Me

Well, I've been playing guitar for about 30 years. Picked up the dobro at age 29 when Gravity Creeps crept no more. Figured out when I was 20 that I could write songs, not just learn other folks.' My bands have been (not guest-spots)
The Cutter Travis Band
Penguin Lust
Wolfgang
Gravity Creeps
The Sunspots
Redneck GReece De-lux
Marlee Macleod and the Lonesome Choir
HorseFeathers
The Hot Burritos
Barbara Cue
The Workhorses of the Entertainment/Recreational Industry
Many of the above played concurrently, and the longest running projects are the current Barbara Cue and WE/RI, though I played in De-Lux for about five years.

Barbara Cue became a really fun ride, without us really planning it. Best laid plans, and all....Profile edited with CricketSoda's Myspace Editor

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/11/2005
Band Website: you're at it
Band Members: Really, I guess just me. Strumming along on the album, now finnished, are Jon Mills (bass), Crumpy Edwards (bass), John Neff (pedal steel), Eric Carter (electric guitar), and Todd Nance (percussion and vocals). Ben Holst is engineering, mostly, over at Chase Park, but some early tracks were engineered by Jorma Starratt out in the woodsy confines of Starratt Studios. It's got pictures on the front and back.
Influences: Beatles, Stones, Who, NRBQ, Grateful Dead, REM, Bruce Springsteen, Gram Parsons, David Lindley, Roy Buchanan, Jerry Douglas, Thelonious Monk, Alice Cooper.
Sounds Like: Well, hopefully just like me. Who was it that said "if you're not doing something different in music, what's the point?" Oh, someone, I guess.
Record Label: Ghostmeat
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Review from Southeast Performer

Catch is the solo debut from Barbara Cue front man William Tonks. Tonks' illustrious career in the Athens music scene includes guitar duty for the likes of The Cutter Travis Band, Redneck Greece De-lu...
Posted by William Tonks on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:40:00 PST

Review of Catch at Swampland.com

Catch William Tonks Ghostmeat Records By James Calemine Recorded within a year at David Barbe's Chase Park Transductions Studio in Athens, Georgia, Catch represents William Tonks' latest release....
Posted by William Tonks on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:38:00 PST

Review of Catch at Swampland.com

music is a-flyin

Indeed, flyin' all over southernshelter.com, Sloan's great live music site, where he posts many shows from his archive of show's he's recorded. And now he's posted a show from Atlanta 2/22/08 (did you...
Posted by William Tonks on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:13:00 PST

Well, January was just sitting there...

So might as well put it to work...or me. The album is released, in physical form, on Ghostmeat records, as of December. It will be released digitally (I Tunes, Rhapsody, etc) in February, with more ho...
Posted by William Tonks on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:39:00 PST

December update

OK, time to get back to typing. I have been distracted/engaged by nothing but the final processes of getting the album finished over the last months. There's final mixes to prepare, involving lots of ...
Posted by William Tonks on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:33:00 PST

Horsefeathers

Sometime ago I got musically hooked up with the fabulous George Norman, an Atlantan whose mastery of the mandolin and knowledge of world music and bluegrass was considerable. I think we just knew each...
Posted by William Tonks on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:28:00 PST

The very first

The very first time I've released something with my name on it, to be precise. I started recording a solo record last December, and in the Spring, talked myself into sending a cut to the Athfest annua...
Posted by William Tonks on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:06:00 PST

The Carter/Hutchens/Tonks Review

Well, I had all good intentions of posting a song from that show in Atlanta referenced in the earlier blog, but the discs got lost in my basement. And then Sloan, who recorded the show, posted it on h...
Posted by William Tonks on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:28:00 PST

The Hot Burritos

I was playing in the Redneck Greece Delux comglomeration at the time, and the bassist, Wayne Heartless and I (that's Barry Sell for you archivists) started a little acoustic duo on ...
Posted by William Tonks on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:29:00 PST