Mic - Valve Drive

Mic - Shape Enabled

Mic - Flat Enabled

How 'Bout Them Aggies

Here With You

Sunshine

Stay

Burn (Live on KUTX)

Dont Rain On My Sunny Day (Live on KUTX)

This is a live track recorded at Sam's Burger Joint in San Antonio Texas. Written and performed by Lucas Jack. Recorded and Mixed by James Tommey. 

Headlights (Live) w/Lucas Jack

I was exposed to good music from the day I was born in Bath, England thanks to my father, a lifelong musician working as an instrumentalist and recording engineer. I was introduced to Steeley Dan, The Who and Stan Getz as soon as I could operate a CD player and I began going to gigs with my dad’s various cover bands as soon as I could carry speaker cables.

My formal musical education began with the clarinet at age eight and sax at age thirteen. It wasn’t until a group of friends were forming a band when I was fifteen that I picked up the bass.

I went on to win a scholarship and study at the world-renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. I studied under some of the greatest bass players and musicians around today, including Matthew Garrison and Lincoln Goines. I graduated from Berklee in 2009 with a BMus in Performance and moved to Austin, TX soon after.

Since moving to Austin my career has taken off and I’ve become an in-demand bassist for Country artists, singer-songwriters, alternative rock bands and Jazz combo’s. I have been performing and touring as a sideman with Kristen Kelly (Sony/RCA Nashville), Pauline Reese, Rich O'Toole and have performed with Texas legend Kinky Friedman.

I am currently playing with Zack Walther, Matt Caldwell and Cari Hutson along with other musicians in Austin, Texas. 

I pride myself on my musical approach to bass playing, and always hold down the groove no matter what genre I’m playing. I currently play Sadowsky and Musicman Basses, Ashdown Amps, DR strings and carry it all around in Mono Case bags.

James Tommey Music