Upcoming Tour Dates
Come out an experience the music the way it was meant to be heard, LIVE!
Friday, April 9, 2010 (7:30pm) ROANE COUNTY FIDDLE MASTERS (An evening of Real American Music from the Cumberland Plateau, USA) This is a benefit program for the Cumberland Trail Project at the Barking Legs Theater. Located at 1307 Dodds Ave, Chattanooga, Tn 37404. I will be performing with Charlie McCarroll.
Saturday, April 10, 2010 (10:00am)--"Music of the Mountains" program on , a jointly-sponsored event that celebrates Southern Appalachian music. The event includes a series of free performances of old-time mountain music during the day at the Park’s Sugarlands Visitor Center's auditorium in Gatlinburg. The music will begin at 10:00am and continue to around 5:00pm with several groups performing.
May 8, 2010 - Tennessee Polk Salad Festival in Harriman Tennessee Enjoy a day filled with bluegrass & oldtime music, antique cars, crafts, vendors, Miss Polk Salad Pageant and other contests and of course, lots of Poke Salad to taste!!For more information go to the festival's website at roanetourism.com
May 15 & 16, 2010 --36th Annual Festival of British & Appalachian Culture in Historic Rugby Tennessee
Tony will be entertaining on stage both days along with a variety of other musicians. Lots of crafts, demonstrations and great food for all. Check out the Historic Rugby webite for more information.
www.historicrugby.org/May 22 & 23, 2010 5th Annual Log Cabin Days Arts & Craft Show Pikeville, Tennessee. Website www.logcabindays.org
May 28 & 29, 2010 -- Desoto State Park, Fort Payne, Alabama - I will be doing a campfire program on Friday evening and on Saturday I will be hosting their 2nd annual Camp Jam. There will be vendors, food, music and fun for the whole family. For more information
Brittney L. McAlister-Hughes
Naturalist
DeSoto State Park
13883 County Road 89
Fort Payne, AL. 35967
Office: 256.997.5025
Fax: 256.845.8286
www.AlaPark.com/DeSotoResort/July 23 & 24, 2010 -- Desoto State Park, - Fort Payne, Alabama - I will be hosting a campfire program both nights with music and stories. Also at 1:00pm on Saturday the 24th I will be conducting a harmonica workshop for kids of all ages. This workshop is for beginners and is a lot of fun for the whole family. Same contact as above.
Book for Sale
Boyhood Memories This autobiographical book is now available. If you know Tony or have seen him perform you have no doubt heard some of the stories of his life. He has finally committed them to paper! In this book Tony shares his cherished memories of his childhood days growing up in the coal mining community of Briceville TN. The book contains true stories of mischief, adventure and most importantly family life set in the hills and hollows around his boyhood home. Also included are some songs he has written about family members along with some recipes from a cookbook he wrote with his mother-in-law, Viola Cox. This is truly entertaining reading.
The cost of the book is $15 with shipping & handling included.
CD's for Sale
Latest CD Now Available
Shall We Gather At The River - Tony is joined on this album by Judy
Carson and Brenda Dawson who are two multi-talented ladies (both play autoharps and sing). This cd is an all gospel project and contains 19 of the old time hymns from days gone by. The cd song list includes: The Old Country Church; Where The Soul Never Dies; Angel Band; Life's Railway to Heaven; Highways & Hedges; Green Pastures; In The Sweet By and By; Will The Circle Be Unbroken; Amazing Grace; Heaven's Light; Who Will Sing for Me; Farther Along; I'll Fly Away; Leaning on the Everlasting Arm; Where the Roses Never Fade; I've Got a Friend There; Shall We Gather At the River; I Am Weary; and Dreaming of a Little Cabin
"Saw Briar Ridge Sessions" Field Recordings - Tony Thomas, Jack
Sandifer and Charlie McCarroll. The cd contains 20 traditional tunes (mostly fiddle tunes) with some vocals. Dill Pickle Rag, Shortening Bread, Johnson City Rag, Bucking Mule, The Girl I Left Behind, Rawhide Trousers (Leather Britches), Peacock Rag, Florida Blues, Hell Among the Yearlings, Cackling Hen, Milk Cow Blues, Precious Jewel, Lost Indian, Ragtime Annie, Cannon Ball Blues, Walk Right In, I am A Pilgrim, Whistling Rufus, Fiddler's Dram, Life's Railway to Heaven
Circle of Friends - This project is comprised of field recordings and includes some of my best friends in music: Wade Darnell, Judy Carson, Liza Jane Alexander, Steve Cottrell, the Late Don Sarrell, Charlie McCarroll and Jack Sandifer. There are 18 songs on this CD which reflect the tastes and history of the Appalachian culture.
Mystery Mountain Boys ReUnited - Rawhide, How Mountain Girls Can Love, Your Love is Like the Flowers, Long Black Veil, Six More Miles, Dooley, Green Back Dollar, Orange Blossom Special, Faded Love, Old Joe Clark, Worried Man Blues, The Girl On Jerry Springer, Sailing, My Darling Sleeps, Traveling the Highway Home, Coal Miner-Moon Shiner, Fiddling Jim
Tony Thomas - I Know the Man (All Gospel) - Could This Be the Land of Beulah, You Never Mentioned Him to Me, I Know the Man, The Old Man With the Mandolin, Kentucky Morning, Little White Church, Love is Love Forever More, In His Eyes, I Will Arise, When They Ring Those Golden Bells
Appalachian String Band (Live at the Laurel) - Smoke Behind the Clouds, Sitting on Top of the World, Sally Goodin, Bury Me Beneath the Willows, Leather Britches, Green River March, Hometown Blues, Tennessee Wagoner, East Tennessee Blues, Girl I Left Behind, Rye Whiskey, Whistling Rufus, Georgia Foxtrot, New River Train, Double Eagle, Just a Closer Walk With Thee, Faded Love, Flop Eared Mule, The Waltz You Saved For Me, Chicken Reel, Soldier’s Joy, San Antonio Rose, Amazing Grace
Mountain Music & Mountain Memories - (Tony Thomas with John Rice Irwin) - The Unknown Miner, The Legend of Alfred’s Hollow, The Keeper of the Mountain, Remembering Don, Interview with John Rice Irwin, Black Mountain Rag, Rosewood Casket, Did You Ever See the Devil Uncle Joe, Bonaparte’s Retreat, The Eighth of January, By the Side of the Road, You Are My Flower, Cabin on the Hill, Just a Closer Walk With Thee, Interview with Don Jenkins, Where the Roses Never Fade, Light at the River, Interview with Paul Reagan, Home Sweet Home, Chinese Breakdown, Maiden’s Prayer, Lost Indian, Somewhere My Love, Elena’s Waltz, Pap’s Old Mule, Sweet Hour of Prayer, The Banjo Waltz, Tater Hole Joe, Precious Memories
Tony Thomas (Spirit of Appalachia-in Stories and Song) - Introduction, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, The Old Mill Stream, That Old Home Place of Mine, When the Mines Grew Still in Fratersville, Goldie the Banjer Man, Little Rosewood Casket, Great Speckled Bird, Daddy was an Old Coal Miner, Good-bye Liza Jane, Fraulein, Calling My Children Home, Roses in the Snow, Scarlet Ribbons, Sally Ann, Cross Mountain Mine, Echos of Coal Creek, Barthel Miner, Gone Home
Mystery Mountain Boys (Appalachian Homecoming) - Hard Times, Appalachia Homecoming, Memories of the Little White Church, Death of a Soldier, Hometown Blues, Carolina Banjo Picking Man, The Heart to Say Goodbye, My Baby’s Gone, Name on a Stone, The Old Street Preacher, Wampus Cat, You’ll Never Profit Without Jesus, Coo-Coo Bird, Mystery Mountain Mandolin Chimes
Tony Thomas (Singing From the Heart) - Morgan County Storms, Way Down on a Georgia Farm, Detroit Blues, Keeper of the Mountain, That Old Home Place of Mine, The Ballad of Jimmy Kyle, Working on the TVA, The Old Street Preacher, The Lambs That Were Thrown Away, Only One Step More, Daddy Was an Old Coal Miner, I Know My Lord is Happy With Me
Tony Thomas (Songs of the Civil War) - Intro Soldier’s Joy, Rose of Alabama, Sweet Sunny South, He’s Coming to Us Dead, Faded Coat of Blue, Dixie Land, I’ve Been All Around This World, Lorena, My Home’s Across the Blue ridge Mountains, The Old Yellow Dog, Two Soldiers, Cumberland Gap, Old Albert’s Shoes, Hard Times, Tom Dula (Dooley), Amazing Grace
Training DVDs
Beginning Banjo - Learn to Play by Ear taught by Tony Thomas
Beginning Mandolin - Learn to Play By Ear taught by Tony Thomas
Beginning Acoustic Guitar - Learn to Play by Ear taught by Tony Thomas
Beginning Gospel Guitar- Learn to Play by Ear taught by Tony Thomas