Frontman of The Get-Rites
Founder of the Magnolia Recording Company
With a unique mixture of old school, back-woods blues and shimmering, sloe-eyed country ballads, Tom Feldman breathes fresh air into the conventions of early 20th-century, folk-spiritual music.
Americana UK describes him as "authentic, retrospective and thought provoking." Blues Revue Magazine says: “a soulful original.” And Dirty Linen labels him “a master of Americana music."
Tom Feldmann began playing around the Minneapolis/St. Paul area only a few months after teaching himself to play the guitar at the age of 17. At first his style was strictly traditional blues and folk, but with the added elements of gospel and country, Feldmann forged his own brand of folk-blues-roots music he calls Gospel Americana.
His first CD was released in 1999 and Tom has since spent the years recording and touring, most notably as the one-man band Stickey Nickel (2003-04) and as the front-man for The Get-Rites (2005-present).
Since their inception in 2005, The Get-Rites have released four internationally acclaimed CD's of Feldmann originals (Driven to my Knees, Side Show Revival, Pedal Steel Heaven, Tin Roof Sky). Unable to enlist a record label to promote his music, Feldmann simply began his own. The Magnolia Recording Company was formed in 2005 to be a “home between the cracks” for The Get-Rites as well as a variety of other artists looking for support.
Feldmann is currently touring solo in support of Tin Roof Sky, giving the band some much-needed rest. The Get-Rites will be back on the road early next year with their fifth CD release, a tribute to the gospel sides of legendary blues artists Muddy Waters, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Fred McDowell, Dock Reed, Washington Phillips, Charlie Patton, Robert Wilkins, Blind Willie Johnson and Son House.
In a time when negativity continually bombards us and hymns of despair are praised as “lyrical masterpieces,” Tom Feldmann stands poised as a positive voice spreading the Good News in song with messages of hope and encouragement. And as Ben Kieffer of Iowa Public Radio says, “Feldmann’s probing lyrics and yearning growl will echo in your soul and lift you up."
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