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Artist
Tom Doughty
12+ albums
acoustic guitarfolksongwriterbluesContemporary
about
Great painters paint, but great artists create…. Rembrandt did it with shadows and light, Van Gogh with texture, Picasso with shape. Edward Hopper took the seemingly ordinary and transformed it into the extraordinary. Tom Doughty is also a great artist, one whose canvas is music. “He is one of the most original new artists I have heard in a long time. With his unique approach to guitar and his vocal interpretations of traditional and his original tunes, he has managed to create music that is all his own." So says Woody Mann, himself an acknowledged master of the instrument. Music is everywhere, a lot of it real good, but it goes largely unnoticed. Why? Because most of it is like an M&S sandwich at lunchtime – it’s nice enough, it hits the spot, but it hardly ever sticks in the memory. Pop, blues, rock, folk, jazz, soul, or whatever your thing might be, there’s only going to be a handful of musicians and music that touches something deep within, something so special that words can’t really do it justice. Son House did it with the blues, Armstrong ignited jazz, Elvis took rock ‘n roll where it wasn’t supposed to go. Dylan turned lyrics into poetry and Billie Holiday showed what a true voice could do. Tom does it with eloquent slide guitar, engaging song writing and a rare ability to bring something fresh to other’s work. His take on Eleanor Rigby is how the Beatles might have done it, had they spent another month in the studio. His savage indictment of Zimbabwe
