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Tim Thomas

Tim Thomas (born May 29th, 1972) is an American indie singer-songwriter. He has been active as a composer, recording artist, and live performer for nearly 3 decades, and is known for personal, introspective lyrics with sweeping melodies sung delicately over shimmering acoustic guitars.

Born in St. Paul and raised in Red Wing, MN, Thomas picked up the guitar at age 18 during his first year of college in Wisconsin. Thomas began writing songs, formed a band shortly after and has been writing, performing and recording ever since, both with bands and as a solo singer/songwriter.

Thomas cut his teeth performing as a singer/songwriter over the course of several years as the Thursday night house musician at Jimmy’s Pub, on the top floor of the St. James Hotel in Red Wing, MN as well as many years of solo and full band shows in the clubs and bars of the Twin Cities and upper midwest.

Thomas has been writing songs for almost three decades and is known for lyrics about life, love, whiskey, bad choices, underdogs and redemption, many of which recollect scenes from his life in Minnesota. Tim cites The Replacements, Gear Daddies, Pink Floyd, Neil Young and James Taylor as primary influences on his work.

Thomas has written for 6 different bands, released 5 full length albums (only two of which are still in print and available) and continues to trudge forward as if achieving some level of success would make it worthwhile, always knowing that he does it because he must. The alternative would be a great bastion of despair; a hopeless world, devoid of any meaning, reason or joy, that continually rears it's ugly head on a daily basis whether he's ahead on the karma scale or so low down, things couldn't possibly get any worse.