Tommy Jones

Tommy Jones

Tommy Jones is a musician from Portland who works in rock, blues, guitar-based music and power pop. He is self-taught and plays multiple instruments, and he records in a home-based digital studio in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. He is also associated with whistling and with Cascade.

Background and early work

Jones comes up as an Atlanta native born in 1968, and he begins performing in the 1980s. During that period he plays keyboards and guitar in Nightreign, Innosense, and the hair metal band Show n’ Tell, which has moderate success.

Style and influences

Rock and roll is his main musical interest, but his work also includes jazz, R&B, techno and electronica. He describes learning guitar alongside AC/DC and Van Halen records, while also absorbing Motown, disco and funk as a child. His sound is compared with Tom Petty and Huey Lewis, but with a harder edge and an element of Elvis Costello in the vocals.