Tour Dates
January 7 thru January 14, 2012 - Pigeon Forge, TN
Wilderness Wildlife Week
Concerts, Workshops, Jam Sessions
Music Road Hotel
January 28, 2012 - Norris, TN
Senior Citizen's Group Fundraiser
Tony Thomas and Judy Carson will be entertaining at the Norris Community Center in Norris, TN from 6:00pm to 8:00pm for the Senior Citizen's Group's annual Fundraiser and Chili Cook-off. The tickets for this event will be $15.00 per person and the proceeds will benefit the Senior Citizen's Group. Please come enjoy some good chili and good music while helping a great cause. For more information contact: David Pennington or Sharon Hill at (865) 482-7311
CDs for Sale
Latest CD Now Available
Winds of Time
(Tony Thomas & Friend) Gospel Memories
Winds of Time is an all gospel cd made up of many songs from Tony’s past musical ventures. The cd contains a few of Tony’s special friends that he has played music with through the years. He is joined on this cd with Mark Stonecipher, T.J. Albert, Cline and Dow Phillips, Luke Brandon, Chris and Jon West, Alex Leach, Charlie McCarroll and the late Elmer Phillips and the late Jack Sandifer. The cd contains 24 gospel songs from Tony’s vast repertoire. The songs on this cd are: Supper Time; If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again; When He Was On The Cross; On The Wings Of A Dove; Go Down Moses; Leaning On The Everlasting Arms; Lamp Lighting Time; Lonesome Valley; Tear Stained Bible; Twilight Is Falling; He Broke The Chains; Only The Wind; When God Comes To Gather His Jewels; The Old Street Preacher; Scarlet Purple Robe; Mother's Not Dead; These Are They; All I Want To Be; I'm Ready; I'll Fly Away; While Here We Travel; Precious Memories; I Am A Pilgrim; Life's Railway To Heaven.
Appalachian Troubadour
Coal Mining, Moon Shining and Other Mountain Affairs-
Composed mostly of original songs this CD brings together an assortment of musicians and musical styles. Alex Leach, Cline Phillips, the late "Uncle Elmer" Phillips, T.J. Albert, Ogle Stooksbury and Mountain Minnie round out the musical line-up. CD contains 22 songs: Unknown Miner, When the Mines Grew Still (John Rice Irwin), Cross Mountain Mine, Coal Miner's Blues, Popcorn Sutton's Last Run, Mattie's Best, Cotton Mouth Creek, Colorado Snow, When I Dream, The Legend of Alfred's Hollow, There's A Blacktop Through The Hollow, Goldie The Banjo Man, The Old Mill Stream, Daisy A Day (Jedd Strunk), My Bestest Friend, Carolina "Rag-Time" Dinah, The Girl On Jerry Springer, Chickamauga Creek, Banjo Waltz (Donald Ray Stevens), Grandma's Song, When The Roses Bloom in Heaven, When The Saviour Comes Down (Elmer Phillips/Tony Thomas).
"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 (Temporarily Sold Out)- 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) (Temporarily Sold Out)- 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) (Temporarily Sold Out) - 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) (Temporarily Sold Out) - 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
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. The book can also be purchased at the Historic Rugby's Commissary, the Museum of Appalachia's Gift shop and the Rock Top General Store in Harriman.
Training DVDs (Temporarily Sold Out)
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