photo courtesy of Bill Thames

www.TommyTaltonBand.com

Tommy Talton
Great Southern Guitarist

March 20th, 2010
SNCA Center Theatre
8:00 pm

Tommy Talton is one of the best songwriters and guitarists of our time.  Talton showcases not only his classic slide and guitar work, but his distinctive vocals, and passionate songwriting.   His performances appeal to all ages, as evidenced by the wide age range of audiences at its live performances.  Expect to hear music from many genres from blues, southern rock and country rock to Americana, R&B and soul.  Rhythm & blues is not a complex musical style, and nobody understands this better than vocalist and guitar master Tommy Talton. Like other veteran R & B musicians, Talton does not care how fast he can play. He does not care how many chord changes he can fit into a measure, or how many tempo changes he can build into one song.

What Talton does care about is texture, restraint, touch, and feel. He cares most about those notes that remain unplayed. Tommy Talton has spent his entire career searching out just the essential notes. Never showboating or grandstanding, he lays back, letting his refined flair for lyrical melodies and his velvety-guitar hooks speak for themselves. Tommy was a founding member of Capricorn Records group Cowboy.  While in Macon, GA through most of the 70s, Tommy was a studio musician recording with artists such as Bonnie Bramlett, Chuck Levell Martin Mull, Corky Lang (West, Bruce and Lang, Mountain), Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Clarence Carter, country legend Kitty Wells, Alex and Livingston Taylor, Arthur Conley of Sweet Soul Music fame, and more. He toured extensively throughout the U.S. with Cowboy and with the Gregg Allman tour, from Carnegie Hall (as special guests) to Fillmore West in San Francisco and most cities in between.   Tommy was also the guitarist on Gregg Allman’s “Laid Back” album.  Tommy lived and toured in Europe throughout the 90s and formed a group there, called The Rebelizers, with members of Albert Lee’s band, Hogan’s Heroes.  By and large, it is as rare as horse feathers in a pillow to recommend musicians or artists with unbridled abandon. Typically, one person's stack of musical CD treasure is another's bathroom doorstop, making such recommendations tenuous at best. In the case of Tommy Talton, however, there is no possible way to over-endorse him. Grab your hat, dust off your listening ears and prepare to be impressed by one of the finest singer/songwriters/guitarists in the South!