User:Thomas Lane Johnson/sandbox

Thomas Lane Johnson is a Drummer, Singer, Writer, Engineer, Mixer, and Producer living in Atlanta, GA.

Lane started playing drums at the age of 7 and was influenced by Jon Bucklew (Copeland), Dave Douglas (Relient K) and Aaron Gillespie (UnderOath). These varios influences shaped Lane's style into a solid, rock steady drummer that pays attention to the entire musical piece rather than just the drums. Lane was always around church playing drums in worship bands and began to be interested in the mixing side of music.

At 15 years old, Lane was in an Indie rock band, he recorded at Glow In The Dark studios and met producer Matt Goldman. From there, Matt kept in contact with Lane until the day Lane graduate high school in 2005. Later that year he was offered an internship at Glow In The Dark Studios in ATL GA. There he worked under Matt Goldman and interned on sessions with Copeland, Anberlin, UnderOath, Cartel, and many other bands from all over the world. After the internship he took an Assistant Engineer position at Marigolds and Monsters Recording Studio in ATL with Matt Malpass. That is where he met, and started a longterm friendship with, singer/writer/producer Matt Thiessen from Relient K. Lane also played drums on Relient K's "Where Do I Go From Here (Acoustic)".

After living in ATL his whole life he then decided to take up a Position as Engineer Producer of First Street Studios in Cleveland TN. There he worked with Regenerate Music Company's owner Chris Garmon. He worked with artists such as Michah Massey, Jordan Mitchell, Jroy and Oaklynn. The company moved to Chattanooga TN where they met Greg Stienmetz and started working out of Chosen Productions Studio. From there he worked with Artist such as Yosef, Mel Washington, Relient K, and also Wave and Rome.

Lane then moved to Nashville TN. There he worked with artist such as Wave And Rome, Josh Farro, Halfnoise, The Decoration and Caroline Glaser.

Now Lane resides in Georgia to be closer to his family. Currently he is working out of Hewlett Studios where he works with artist such as Social, Thomas Branch, Rica Tan, Josh Manuel, Heath Balto, Jake Bosci, Cody Oliver and Big Snow Entertainment.

Lane has worked with writers, artists, and musicians such as Relient K, Social, Jordan Mitchell, Rica Tan, Oaklynn, Manchester Orchestra, All Get Out, Tides Of Man, ISSUES, Josh Manuel, All The Day Holiday, Rookie Of The Year, Death On 2 Wheels, Ellington(AUS), The Decoration, Jake Bosci, The Armory, Greatest Of These(AUS), Ark, FARRO, Josh Farro, Halfnoise, Zac Farro, Lydia, Holiday Parade, Thomas Branch, Heath Balto, Cody Oliver, Mansell, Sojourner, Adam Kersh, Jroy, Micah Massey, Wave And Rome, Yosef, Mel Washington.