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Artist
Everett Thomas
12+ albums
folkaccoustic
about
With the lines of the artistry and industry being blurred together more everyday, singer/songwriters seem to get categorized as either full-fledged commercial superstars or pensive underground poets. St. Louis-bred/Wisconsin-based troubadour Everett Thomas certainly falls into that latter category, though he's quickly ascending beyond a niche in-the-know to become one of the Midwest's most authentic and accomplished tunesmiths who's already opened for the lauded likes of Nickel Creek's Sean and Sara Watkins, G. Love & Special Sauce, Over the Rhine, Lifehouse, The Wood Brothers and Matt Nathanson. Music lovers of all associations can certainly decide for themselves on his national debut Visions of the Sea on Skies Fall Records, the ambitious entertainer seamlessly weaves aggressive folk, Americana and alternative country with an underlying soulfulness and grit accentuated by a lifetime of blues appreciation. "I love Dylan, ya know? And Tom Waits, and Neil Young," the casual but creative Thomas unveils over a cup of coffee. "I think a lot of times those guys can get thrown in the same barrel, but to me they couldn't be more different. Dylan's songs are like reading the Bible or something. Tom Waits sounds like a street performer outside of a circus tent run by the devil. The Velvet Underground sometimes sounds like I am listening to outer space. I love that. I love listening to Otis Redding, James Brown and Wilson Pickett, too. And James Carr man; no one sings like that guy."
