I’ve been many things. I’ve spent years playing in rock bands, worked as a hired guitarist, and written songs for a publisher. During the pandemic, I wrote my first novel, which marked the beginning of a second creative life on the assembly line of sentences. In and out of various bands, I’ve released five solo albums, shifting from garage rock to electronic experimentation to raw and personal songwriting. But my acoustic album Timekeeper (2021) revealed something I’d been working toward for a very long time: stripping my music back to only what’s essential—excavating beneath the layers, trying to find the truth.

Now, I perform solo with a classical guitar and a few pedals as I reimagine what I want my life in music to look like. But mostly, I just try to get a little better at music each day.

BIO

You can find Thom’s music on Bandcamp and all streaming services, and his recent writing online at SongFacts. His writing has also been published by American Songwriter.

As a songwriter, he’s been published by Kobalt and Nettwerk. Then his music publisher introduced him to a casting agent, which led to a recurring role as a musician on the ABC musical drama Nashville for six seasons. His music has appeared in film and TV (The Good Wife, Body of Proof, various shows on MTV, commercials, and the like).

He’s played shows around the world with John Prine, Brandi Carlile, Robert Plant, Nine Inch Nails, Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Social Distortion, and others.

In 2013, Thom collaborated with Wyclef Jean from the Fugees, whom he met on the set of Nashville, and the studio experiments led to Thom’s single, “Shipwreck” (feat. Ruby Amanfu). 

His indie rock band Lapush performed on Last Call with Carson Daly, and later in 2011, he formed a Nashville-based electronic duo with Kendall Morgan called Rossi, and this song, along with this Leonard Cohen cover, opened Thom’s current chapter with the classical guitar, an instrument he began studying in high school.

And as a guitarist, he’s recorded and toured with Will Hoge, Ruby Amanfu, and Leigh Nash (Sixpence None the Richer).