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About Me

character, lead guitarist, actor, writer, rover ... performance artist with an accordion / a bluesman with a silver resonator and a slide on his finger/ pirate hanging from the tavern rafters while bragging of his latest plunder/ chicken pickin guitarist on the side of a country singer or an r & b legend/ actor strutting the boards in a play / a whirling dervish mystic named Shams in Pouria Montazeris film about the great poet Rumi/ a jamming member of a pretty coed hippie band called the Big Happy/ actor in a film or music video, lately playing gypsies tramps and thieves / a guy playing the guitar in the corner of the bar, lost in the music, oblivious to who is listening/ a stratocaster slinging bandleader soloing on top of the bar/ always happy to be here. Some past and present adventures: The Tom Mason Band, Chicken Scratch, The Big Happy, Swampgrass, Last Train Home, The New Nashvillains, The Nashville All-Stars, The Kingpins, Dream Diesel, Tommy and The Dreamboats, Ruby Blair, The Harry Woods Band, Figures, Buck Jones, The Cathy Braaten Band, and all those other bands...
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Member Since: 6/12/2006
Band Website: tommason.net
Influences: Woody Guthrie, Buddy Guy, Tito Puente, Duane Allman, Humphrey Bogart, Ghandi, Luis Bunuel, Picasso, Pollack, Dylan, Fellini, P.T. Barnum, Velevet Underground, Sonny Boy Williamson, Doc Watson, The Dead, Waits, Williams, Clearwater, Fluxus, Lennon et al, Shankar, Kerouac, Bill & Bob, too many more, all my friends and peers and teachers, and those I have yet to hear, but mostly my brothers and sisters...
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Named "Best Accordion player to ever play Norm's River Roadhouse"

Yes, it's true. If you know me, you know I'm not one to brag, (at least I hope not), but once in a while someone gives you a compliment that you just want to pass on, something that makes these life-l...
Posted by tom mason on Fri, 25 May 2007 09:33:00 PST

Buck Jones

I'm very fortunate to have played guitar with Buck, and like everyone who ever played with Buck, to have been his friend. Buck was so wise in his humility. His knack for deferring compliments , and sh...
Posted by tom mason on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:32:00 PST

A Slide Guitar Christmas

Ho ho ho!! Hey, my instrumental album is now available at two shops on the web! Sunlight of the Spirit Music, (where it's this month's featured CD!) and cdbaby. get 'em quick, so you can listen throug...
Posted by tom mason on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:02:00 PST

"Ramblin'" featured on new Red Beet CD "The Other Side: Music from East Nashville.

Eric Brace (Last Train Home) and Mary Ann Werner have just produced a new CD entitled "The Other Side: Music From East Nashville" on the label Red Beet Records (www.redbeetrecords.com). The double CD ...
Posted by tom mason on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:29:00 PST