Tom Quigley
Athens, Georgia, United States | INDIE
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Press
"Tom Quigley performed to standing room only sold out show, opening for award winning recording artist Alathea, as featured on the front page of the June 4, 2009 Clayton Tribune " - Clayton Tribune
Debut CD from acoustic singer/songwriter Tom Quigley is an eclectic mix of alternative folk, classical, jazz and rock. Engineered and recorded by John Keane of REM, Indigo Girls, B-52s and Wide Spread Panic fame, it is an excellent introduction to this up and coming artist from Athens, Georgia. - Digstation
Discography
Aversion to Reason - Swiftwater Music December 2008
tracks available on Rhapsody, Amazon, iTunes, Napster and eMusic. Local radio airplay
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Bio
Tom Quigley is a guitarist and singer/songwriter who grew up in Athens, Georgia and after living all over the country is back there as a performing base. After a career as an engineer in Silicon Valley, he has taken his 30 year guitar avocation and started writing, recording and performing full time. He has collaborated with Wilma, a favorite of Athens audiences, has opened for Nashville favorite Hoss Howard, and opened for the award winning Alathea - often playing across North Georgia and Western North Carolina. His fingerstyle approach to the instrument is a mixture of jazz, classical and folk influences reminiscent of James Taylor, Jim Croce, David Wilcox and Lindsay Buckingham.
His debut CD, Aversion to Reason, was engineered and recorded at John Keane Studios in Athens where REM, The B-52s, Indigo Girls and Wide Spread Panic have all recorded discs. He loves to perform in small intimate venues and events and is busy working on his follow-on disc to Aversion to Reason.
Why "Aversion to Reason"? Tom says "For an artist trapped in an engineer's body over a long career in corporate america, escaping the rigors and demands of rational, reasonable thought to do a CD of jazz, folk, classical, country and rock seems satisfyingly unreasonable." Tom's approach to song writing can be summed up in the following: "Sometimes the lyric or music just speaks through the guitar, through the melody, and you just have to get out of the way and let it be." So be it.
Tom's music can be found on the independent label Swiftwatermusic and at various digital download venues: iTunes, Amazon.com, Rhapsody, Naptster and eMusic. For booking and management information see indie@swiftwatermusic.com
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