Tom Andes

Tom Andes writes original story-songs about down-and-outs and dreamers, influenced by blues, traditional country, spiced up with the flavor of New Orleans R&B. His two EPs, “Static on Every Station” and “Those LA Nights,” received acclaim in Offbeat and airplay on WWOZ. Southern Crescent Recording Co. will release both EPs on vinyl in 2025. A fiction writer who has published in Best American Mystery Stories 2012, with a novel coming from Crescent City Books in 2025, Tom is a born storyteller adept at playing small, intimate rooms as a solo act and rocking out with a full band, playing his own songs and covering favorites by everyone from Prince to Dolly Parton. He lives in Albuquerque, where he gigs as a guitar player with several bands, solo, and is writing songs for a full-length record.

“If there is a tune here that could contend for college-radio airplay, it’d be the jangly title track. Besides recalling early REM, “Static on Every Station” is infectious with charge-ahead energy spearheaded by Andes’ searing guitar tones.“ (Dan Willging, Offbeat)

“Singing about ‘shorts and socks’ and a Mean Old Man who wants your dog out of his yard, Tom Andes finds a highly-original interpretation of the blues well-suited for the 2024 smartphone era.” (Selection Committee for 2024 Telluride Blues Challenge)