Jamie Thomas

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 write songs. He honed his skills as a performer playing New York clubs with his band 3rd Man Out 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. While in Austin Jamie shared the stage with Texas music legends Bill Carter (writer of Crossfire for SRV) and Charlie Sexton (Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello). In 2012 Jamie headed west to Los Angeles for a year of writing and gigging at the Viper Room, the Mint, and the House of Blues. Jamie 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.