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A Bluegrass record featuring Mark Fain, Sierra Hull and Justin Moses with special guests: Tim Stafford, David Grier, Wyatt Rice, Clay Hess, Buddy Melton and Kim Richey
A Bluegrass record featuring Mark Fain, Sierra Hull and Justin Moses with special guests: Tim Stafford, David Grier, Wyatt Rice, Clay Hess, Buddy Melton and Kim Richey
Thomm and his friend and co-writer Jefferson Ross decided to write a batch of new original Christmas songs that sound like old traditional Christmas songs. There’s no Santa and there are no reindeer in these songs. This is a folky-sounding record about the most wondrous occasion.
his is a two guitars/two vocals record that Thomm and his friend and frequent co-writer Craig Market made in 2014. A lot of these songs have since been recorded by other artists. Here you can hear them in their original form.
This is Thomm’s 2017 release. These are all original songs. Thomm is backed by a stellar Bluegrass band including Mark Fain, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses and Andrea Zonn.
This is a Duo Record by two songwriters working in the Bluegrass/Americana field. Two guitars, two vocals, nothing else.
Nominated for The Recording Academy Grammy Award for "Bluegrass Album Of the Year"
Among these releases we find the stories of rambling vagabond musicians, the hard life of mill workers, tragic Civil War characters both real and imagined, semi-forgotten regional legends and new stories of more recent real-life dramas and tragedies that will be
Nominated for The Recording Academy Grammy Award for "Bluegrass Album Of the Year"
Among these releases we find the stories of rambling vagabond musicians, the hard life of mill workers, tragic Civil War characters both real and imagined, semi-forgotten regional legends and new stories of more recent real-life dramas and tragedies that will be tomorrow’s parables. Each single release is a pairing of works — one featuring a crackerjack bluegrass band, the other featuring just Jutz and his guitar — that may complement, expand upon or contextualize one another.
A musical biography of Bluegrass legend Mac Wiseman All songs were written by Thomm Jutz, Peter Cooper and Mac Wiseman featuring: Mac Wseman, Alison Krauss, Shawn Camp, jim Lauderdale, Sierra Hull, the Issaca, Junior Sisk, Ronnie Bowman and many more.
Like its predecessor, To Live In Two Worlds Volume 2 is filled with stories of mysterious deaths, moral dilemmas, struggling musicians and historical events that range through the years and across the globe, offered alternately with the help of a crackerjack string band and by nothing more than Jutz’s guitar and voice. The album is now available
Like its predecessor, To Live In Two Worlds Volume 2 is filled with stories of mysterious deaths, moral dilemmas, struggling musicians and historical events that range through the years and across the globe, offered alternately with the help of a crackerjack string band and by nothing more than Jutz’s guitar and voice. The album is now available for pre-order ahead of its September 25 release.
“As always with my writing, you’ll find characters from days gone by in this collection of songs,” says Jutz, who was nominated for IBMA Songwriter Of The Year in 2017, 2018 and 2019. “Real or imagined, they struggle with their place in the world — like we all do. My beliefs, frustrations and hopes live in these characters, in the spiritual overtones and worldly undercurrents of their human existence. From the writing desk to the recording studio it’s been a genuine joy to work on this album.”
With songs ranging through the early days of country music to modern day historical events like Nashville’s historic flood and the fire that raged through Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral, Jutz weaves a rich historical timeline with memorable melodic strains and vivid turns of phrase. People long-forgotten live again, favorite characters from modern classics make their appearances, and stories never told before come clothed in the sounds of days gone by.
Album artwork numbered and signed hand pulled original print by artist Julie Sola. Size 8.5' x 11"
I’ve long admired Julie’s work, and consider her a dear friend. Julie just recently moved to New Mexico, after spending many years in Nashville, where she worked at Hatch Show Print and perfected her craft of hand-carved, hand-pulled linoleum prints.
Album artwork numbered and signed hand pulled original print by artist Julie Sola. Size 8.5' x 11"
I’ve long admired Julie’s work, and consider her a dear friend. Julie just recently moved to New Mexico, after spending many years in Nashville, where she worked at Hatch Show Print and perfected her craft of hand-carved, hand-pulled linoleum prints. When Tammy and I were looking for some original folk art, that would represent the music on this album, it didn’t take long to find something in Julie’s portfolio that we loved. Julie’s artwork speaks to the simplicity of these songs, and to the simple joy we can find in making music. We have a limited number of sixty of these prints for sale, as a custom package with the CD. You can learn more about Julie’s work at www.fatcrowpress.com
As songwriters, musicians, and friends, Thomm Jutz and Tammy Rogers explore the Appalachian sounds that inspire them on Surely Will Be Singing, their first-ever album together. Recorded in their home studios in Nashville, these 12 original songs echo the acoustic production, lyricism and vocal blend of their folk and bluegrass heroes while
As songwriters, musicians, and friends, Thomm Jutz and Tammy Rogers explore the Appalachian sounds that inspire them on Surely Will Be Singing, their first-ever album together. Recorded in their home studios in Nashville, these 12 original songs echo the acoustic production, lyricism and vocal blend of their folk and bluegrass heroes while naturally setting a foundation for more music to come. “We’d always talked about making a duo record,” Jutz says. “We started on some demos and when the pandemic hit, we were writing on Zoom. We both said the last thing we wanted was to say when this thing is over that we wasted a year sitting on the couch and watching TV, so let’s stay with it. And that’s what we did.”
Bundle and save! Bundle includes one CD and one copy of the signed and numbered print of the album artwork.
Album artwork numbered and signed hand pulled original print by artist Julie Sola of Fat Crow Press. Size 8.5' x 11"
I’ve long admired Julie’s work, and consider her a dear friend. Julie just recently moved to New Mexico, after spending many
Bundle and save! Bundle includes one CD and one copy of the signed and numbered print of the album artwork.
Album artwork numbered and signed hand pulled original print by artist Julie Sola of Fat Crow Press. Size 8.5' x 11"
I’ve long admired Julie’s work, and consider her a dear friend. Julie just recently moved to New Mexico, after spending many years in Nashville, where she worked at Hatch Show Print and perfected her craft of hand-carved, hand-pulled linoleum prints. When Tammy and I were looking for some original folk art that would represent the music on this album, it didn’t take long to find something in Julie’s portfolio that we loved. Julie’s artwork speaks to the simplicity of these songs, and to the simple joy we can find in making music. We have a limited number of fifty of these prints You can learn more about Julie’s work at www.fatcrowpress.com
After calling both Tim Stafford and Thomm Jutz “master guitarists and writers,” the beloved, late music writer and historian Peter Cooper described their upcoming collection, Lost Voices, just like this: “These are new kinds of bluegrass songs, informed by mutual heroes Tony Rice, Norman Blake, John Hartford, and Gordon Lightfoot, yet not beholden
After calling both Tim Stafford and Thomm Jutz “master guitarists and writers,” the beloved, late music writer and historian Peter Cooper described their upcoming collection, Lost Voices, just like this: “These are new kinds of bluegrass songs, informed by mutual heroes Tony Rice, Norman Blake, John Hartford, and Gordon Lightfoot, yet not beholden to any prior influence, other than the influence of the American experience.”
When it came time to lay down all fourteen Stafford- and Jutz-penned songs on Lost Voices, the pair decamped to Jutz’s log cabin studio outside of Nashville with a crew of like-minded greats including Shaun Richardson on mandolin, Ron Block on banjo, Tammy Rogers on fiddle, Mark Fain on bass, and Dale Ann Bradley as a guest vocalist. When all was said and done, Stafford and Jutz ended up with an album of all original music that perfectly reflects the depth of both knowledge and skill—and an effortless cool—that the duo possesses; an album of tunes that the aforementioned Cooper called “Songs that bring American history—mountain culture, steam trains, vaudeville, race, baseball, strife, and grace—to technicolor life.”