Jefferson Thomas

Loading in for another gig at the Rainbow Room tonight, this time with FREE PARKING on a Saturday in Midtown. It's all about who you know. Or maybe who you blow - I can never keep that straight.

Decided…

I have always adored the Foo Fighters and Taylor Hawkins. I Inadvertently saw them for free years ago. I was walking home up Sixth Avenue and had completely forgotten that the MTV Music Awards were that night at Radio City…

Tonight's axes are from 1958, 1968, and...well, OK, 2006. That's KINDA vintage.

This is the last recording of my dad, captured by my brother in a high-end boutique guitar store somewhere in New Mexico. 

The only thing he enjoyed as much as a good night playing was prowling music stores by…

Please keep my “other family”- the Sherwoods - in your thoughts this week as they lay to rest one of their beloved sons, who was only sixteen years old. No one should ever have to do that. 

I wrote…

Well, there's good news and bad news....and then more good news. My song "Thursday's Girl" first appeared in the Matthew Broderick/Brittany Snow film "Finding Amanda" years ago. 

The good news is that another Hollywood project wants it. 

The…

Attention ladies: if you wanna know what the coming fashion trends are, pay no attention to the runway models. Tonight I played for a thousand drunken Iona College girls, and half of them were wearing...leather pants?! You heard it here…

For some reason, last night I had a full night of dreams about my mom and dad.  Far too often those dreams are not good; focusing on the bad times, just a few years ago when they were older and…

Day after day of technology has me completely burned out. A couple of welcome road days today and tomorrow up in New England to get away from the evil machines, then we'll be back at it Saturday working on the…

We chose to do a fade-out ending on the song we're currently mixing for the forthcoming Jefferson Thomas album.  I've noticed that no pop songs fade out anymore.  I got curious as to why, and I found this article…

First of all, happy new year!  Man, I miss these periodic missives ever since social media elbowed out the traditional mailing list.  So here we go… 
 

NEW VIDEO:  "THE SWITCH"… 
Shot in Atlanta, New Orleans, Greenville and New…

Spending this week on a new song for an upcoming imdbTV comedy series about people getting out of jail and using their criminal talents for good. Sort of like the music business! And the real-life similarities don't stop there, since…