12yr old Tommy Jones on Wally Fowler's Country Music Holiday

[PhilHunt]

I'd love to know who the person is that has these Country Music Holiday Shows. Here's a very young Tommy Jones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXjG7-X47ok#at=87

[Tom Workman]

I had a Country Gentleman exactly like the one he's playing... sold it a little over two years ago to pay for my Nashville Classic. It was a decent playing & sounding guitar for a Baldwin era Gretsch but, the 1.625" nut width drove me crazy. Just two tight and I could never get used to it. Anyway, that sure was great pickin' for a 12-year-old! -Tom W.

[Tom Workman]

...that's "just TOO tight".

[David Elliott]

I had a Country Gentleman exactly like the one he's playing... sold it a little over two years ago to pay for my Nashville Classic. It was a decent playing & sounding guitar for a Baldwin era Gretsch but, the 1.625" nut width drove me crazy. Just two tight and I could never get used to it. Anyway, that sure was great pickin' for a 12-year-old! -Tom W.

Wow...that's a video of Tommy I've never seen before!

This was recorded about the time I first heard of Tommy from a picking buddy of mine in Denver. He had gone on vacation down to Florida and told me I wouldn't believe this kid he had heard down there!

I'm not sure, but it looks like Tommy is using a straight pick here...of course this tune is mostly single note picking anyhow. Boy, this would have been about 45-48 years ago...time moves on!

David

[Hendrik]

What a amazing player Tommy was, a prodigy for sure! The uploader said he has more videos of Tommy playing on the Wally Fowler show. Tommy is than 13 years old. He's uploading it soon.

[DagerRande]

Phil, you manage to find the videos that I never see anywhere else. Including the footage that I've taken of Tommy myself, I thought I had the most inclusive collection possible, but this one proves me wrong! Tommy played this for me many times but never with a straight pick. In fact, I never saw him play with a straight pick. He told me that he began playing fingerstyle at about 12 but I didn't know he was this good going into it. Thanks for sharing this!

[Hendrik]

Here's another one of Tommy playing on the "Country Music Holiday" show, now at the age of 13 playing Yankee Doodle Dixie.

Tommy Jones - Yankee Doodle Dixie

[Hendrik]

One year later; playing again Yakete Axe on the "Country Music Holiday" show.

Tommy Jones - Yakete Axe