Just Me:
Tom...... Born March '57 (A good year for Chevy)
born and raised in Cheshire, England. Near the Mersey Delta and the cornfields of Frodsham Marsh.
Influences
Too many to list and loads of diverse buggers. Here's a few from my early years:
Jansch, Renbourn, Graham, Broonzy, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Tull, Carthy, Nic Jones, Taylor, Simpson, Guithrie, Baez, Topol, Gershwin, Porter
And from my recent years:
Woody Mann, Brozman, Debashish Bhattacharyra, David Lindley, Ben Harper, Stephanne Grapelli, Toumaini Diabate, Gary Davis, Lemon Jefferson, Willy McTell, Skip James, Sleepy John Estes, Jim friggin Reeves, Tommy Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Keb Mo, Robert Johnson, Clive Carroll, Django Rheinhart...where do I stop.
Almost everything infulences me - some in a good way, some bad....
Sounds Like
Well: Mostly I sound like No One else.
As I take my own interpretation and improvision on my music.
They say....a bit like.....some of....Eric Clapton, Kelly Jo Phelps, Martin Simpson.
I play one of my guitars every day and I feel so fortunate to be able to do this. I perform throughout England and internationally, most years in New York and this year, in Canada. I really can be included with those few musicians who are truly unique because I have been forced to develop a different way of playing. Let me add a little here: A motor-cycle accident in 1974 left me paralysed and unable to play conventionally. But thems the breaks and you get on with life. Anyway, it meant that I had to develop an entirely new approach, based on slide guitar held lap style. And a new way of playing, using adapted picks and a glass tube, - BUT YOU SHOULD HEAR ME NOW!. FOR MORE VIDEO: GO TO http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=slideytunes
tom doughty acoustic lap slide blues, hound dog blues
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This was originally, for my own pleasure, until 2000, when I had an opportunity to meet the fantastic New York musician, Woody Mann, who encouraged me to go for it. So it was goodbye to the ordinary job, and hello to a whole new lifestyle one which is both more satisfying and demanding. For one thing, its harder to get gigs as a wheelchair user, simply because some promoters and venues are largely ignorant of what might need doing and are too embarrassed to ask. Yet really its simple just treat me like any mega-star.
My music itself is intuitive and very improvisational and therefore lends itself to incidental, background accompaniment and film scores. I can compose on the spot and therefore I have a wide range of resources to offer. Like every musician worth his or her place at the microphone, performing is only a part of the story. Its also the opportunity to share, to learn, to be inspired and to inspire that makes it worthwhile. At Debashish Bhattacharyas invitation, I've just returned from Calcutta where I spent a few weeks learning from him. Indian slide guitar is phenomenal, but is still largely unknown to western audiences, despite tours by Debashish, VM Bhatt and others.
On a sort of related matter, after completing my second album 'Running Free', I'm in the middle of putting an instructional DVD together, but I'm still relatively unknown and outside of the mainstream . So, I'm different and therefore really interesting! I'm beginning to build an audience through my shows in the UK, Europe and the USA, appearances on BBC Radio 2's Paul Jones show, CD sales and so on, a music video and something on proper telly would be grand!
'This mans music is free, full of expression and range, and makes addictive listening.' Tom released his first Album, The Bell to critical acclaim in 2002 and plays regularly in public. He was featured on The Paul Jones show on BBC National Radio 2 in December 2003, and again on 6th September, 2005, with tracks from the new album. Defining Tom as an Acoustic Blues guitarist is too small to convey the range of moods and styles in his playing. The great American finger style guitarist Woody Mann is a fan, describing Toms music as One of the most original new artists I have heard in a long time. With his unique approach to guitar and his vocal interpretations of traditional and his original tunes, he has managed to create music that is all his own.
Bob Brozman quotes: Tom Doughty is possessed of a deep musical soul, that magic link between feeling and movement which makes the slide guitar such an individual instrument. His touch is wide ranging, and his music is full of big feeling. In a world of derivative and imitative slide guitarists, Toms sound is unique and special.
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Tom mate, great to be friends with you! I just got up, turned on my comp, found we had recently become friends with you so I had a listen, and I've been enchanted by your music. So thankyou for allowing me to begin my day like this!
Hi Tom, it's so good to meet you once again! I hear your music is growing bigger and deeper. I love melancholic mood you create, it takes me somewhere and this place is not on this earth for sure! Warm greetings from Poland, Ola
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My group originally at 17,000 friends and had a government and politics group on page 8 it is still located there but when you click on it and says deleted or invalid account.
To be Moses to all Disabled people and remove the yoke the burden on our disabled backs! And set Disabled people free!
Hi Tom Great show at the Grange theatre, Linda and myself thouroughly enjoyed the evening. man you just get better and better, beautifull sounds.............Dac.
