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"Songster"
Isle Of Man United States Minor Outlying Islands
For the last ten years, songster Ian Thomas has been on the road - sometimes in style, sometimes hitchhiking or others in an old beat down car.
He began playing on the streets between San Francisco and New Orleans, forming brief collaborations with other street performers before moving on, a hobo traveling the land with an acoustic guitar slung over his back.
There is an old belief that one has to travel to discover oneself. Learn and listen from the world, and then reconcile those influences with your own voice. It is an adage that the likes of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson and Bob Dylan all subscribed to. You can hear all of that in the voice of Ian Thomas, a man whose music traverses the echoes of 20th-century Americana, yet brings the songs together with a clarity that is both remarkable and refreshing.
Thomas plays the guitar, harmonica, and kazoo - each with a distinctiveness that drives his flexible performances. As a live performer, Thomas is clearly picking up the torch of American folk music. He shakes one dusty-booted foot to keep the time, wears a hat that covers his eyes and sings in a high, sure voice. Young Dylan references are impossible to escape, but Thomas' own sense of commitment gives the old medium fresh legs. |
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