At the age of 21, Tom co-founded 4-piece blues outfit Sugarland Slim, quickly pricking up the ears of the UK blues scene and sharing the stage with such greats as Peter Green, Paul Jones & Dave Kelly and Dr Feelgood. In 2005, Tom moved to Penzance as a street musician with his beaten-up National Triolian and was quickly embraced and put to work by the vibrant local music scene. Cornwall 365 He has since developed a passion for luthiery, building box fiddles and guitars from reclaimed materials and driftwood, biscuit-tin banjos and dulcimers, and bamboo fifes for himself and other local musicians. A gifted songwriter, Tom brings his own unique flavour to a vast repertoire of traditional songs. Whippletreeband Tom will play anything from Mississippi Blues to Murder Ballads, lullabies to Leadbelly, his own songs and more — performing with his resonator, hat, kazoo and bandolier of harmonicas with the easy charm of an old-time songster.
