Tom Mason
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Tom Mason is a true renaissance man. Life is a department store and Tom Mason is running up and down the aisles filling his pockets. A fine guitarist, a sizzling slide player and multi-instrumentalist, a seasoned actor, and a passionate songwriter, Mason is above all an entertainer, eager to share his lust for life every time he straps on a guitar or hits the stage.. Since arriving in Nashville in 1993, Mason has not only established himself as a favorite in nightclubs and studios, he’s also become a sought after actor in theater and film. With his new CD Alchemy, Tom Mason draws on all his talents to create a work filled with magic.
About
As a solo artist, Mason has released two CD’s “Where Shadows Fall” and the instrumental “A Slide Guitar Christmas”. He has also released numerous collaborative CD’s, including two by the Big Happy on Western Beat Records and one with Swampgrass, and has been featured on such compilations as “For Kate’s Sake: An Americana Christmas”, “The Other Side: Music of East Nashville”, and “Yuletide from the Other Side. In addition to being a solo artist and bandleader, Tom Mason has played lead guitar for a multitude of artists. Recently he’s been touring the US and Europe with Phil Lee, and frequently plays with Last Train Home, Supe Granda (of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils), and his wife, Australian Pru Clearwater..
In June of 2009 Tom Mason performed in greater Los Angeles in a critically acclaimed production of the Broadway musical “Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash”, a show with which he toured the country in 2007/2008. Earlier in the year he played Clarence (brother of the king) and Derby in Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s "Richard III" in a production in which the Yorks and the Lancasters are competing performers on a Vaudeville stage. As a frequent member of Nashville’s Actor’s Bridge Ensemble, Tom has had roles in Mary Zimmerman’s "Arabian Nights" and "Metamorphoses", "American Duet", "How I Learned to Drive", and as the Stage Manager in "Our Town". In 2007 he was a guest artist at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center during their Cabaret Conference.
Tom Mason’s most recent film role was as Shams in Pouria Montazeri’s Shams and Rumi: The Fragrance of Axis Mundi, a visually stunning film about the Persian poet Rumi’s mystical transformation. Other roles have included kidnappers, drug dealers, the devil, and Dolly Parton’s Dobro player in a lifetime television movie.
