MP3 Tom Wilson - The Heather and the Sagebrush

The sounds of the Scottish Highlands and the Rocky Mountains combine on Tom's second release. Featuring spirited tin whistle, majestic horns, rowdy drumming, and merry band of local stars playing everything from banjo to highland pipes.

14 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Traditional Folk, FOLK: Traditional Scottish Folk



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The genes may come from Scotland; the roots are firmly planted in the rocky soil of Wyoming. Tom Wilson grew up running around the badlands and mountainsides of the Bighorn Basin. It was there he first learned that to really love and understand the country, you have to walk through it.

It was also there, at the tender age of eleven, that Tom took up his first instrument, the euphonium/baritone horn. He chose the euphonium because of its beauty, rich sound, the way it felt in his hands. That and the fact that he didn't tell his parents about the beginning band meeting, and by the time they arrived, the baritone was the only thing left.

Despite this inauspicious beginning to Tom's musical career, things went just fine until college, when Tom got into long-distance backpacking. Backpacking with a euphonium was no fun, and something more portable was called for. About the same time, a deep-seated but long-dormant love awoke for the music of Scotland and Ireland. These two seemingly unrelated urges collided, and thus began Tom's adventures with the tin whistle. The world has been a sqeakier place ever since.

These days, Tom can often be found singing with little kids, trying to understand God, wandering around the deserts, mountains, and trout streams of central Wyoming, and planting trees which don't grow.

Tom lives, works, and plays in and around Lander, Wyoming, with his lovely wife Sarah, his goofy but intrepid dog Rocky, and a cat which he refuses to claim until he sees conclusive evidence that it has caught a mouse.