Jamie Thomas had his musical epiphany not at the proverbial crossroads but a schoolyard in Astoria, Queens, where the music of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones and others touched his soul and inspired him to play music as well as write songs. He honed his skills as a performer playing New York clubs in a band before striking out on his own, making his bones as a solo act in the ground zero of the American folk movement, Greenwich Village's the Bitter End................. He later headed south of Mason-Dixon line spending time in Nashville before landing in Austin, TX in 2003. Recently Jamie has been playing shows and recording in the Hudson Valley, New York City, Los Angeles and Austin, TX. He continues to perform his own steeped-in-the-tradition originals with his reinterpretations of other numbers from the great real American music songbook that span from its origins to today. Jamie Thomas' song "Wild as the Fire" is heard on the webseries "Doing Good" where it appears...
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Jamie Thomas had his musical epiphany not at the proverbial crossroads but a schoolyard in Astoria, Queens, where the music of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones and others touched his soul and inspired him to play music as well as write songs. He honed his skills as a performer playing New York clubs in a band before striking out on his own, making his bones as a solo act in the ground zero of the American folk movement, Greenwich Village's the Bitter End................. He later headed south of Mason-Dixon line spending time in Nashville before landing in Austin, TX in 2003. Recently Jamie has been playing shows and recording in the Hudson Valley, New York City, Los Angeles and Austin, TX. He continues to perform his own steeped-in-the-tradition originals with his reinterpretations of other numbers from the great real American music songbook that span from its origins to today. Jamie Thomas' song "Wild as the Fire" is heard on the webseries "Doing Good" where it appears at the end of episode 1. Jamie has performed with Austin musicians Charlie and Will Sexton, Stephen Doster and Bill Carter.
