Bio

My name is Thomas “TONE” Watkins producer. I was raised in the city that was home to Elvis and the famous Beale Street, separated by Mississippi River from the somewhat greener pastures and smoother roads of the state of Arkansas. For many years my town was known as "Home of the Blues" inspired the founding fathers to approve a change of name to something happy sounding and innocuous and sure never to bring the village into a position of ridicule again. The name of my home is Memphis, Tn. Most of the people I knew and grew up with have yet to leave. This music that I have made in the back room of my house, is partially their story; the ambitions and desires they once held that finally seemed to hover and then dissipate like the smoke from the power plant across the river, apparently gone forever but invisibly managing to linger in the air. It is a record haunted by the ghosts of my dead relations; family members that seemed to go out of this life either meekly unfulfilled or defiantly unrepentant, like my uncle, shot dead in the streets of Memphis only to return, a force of nature, in my most violent desires and ambitions, and also in a song called "Where You From." This music is also a record of me, my fear of fading into the serene fields and hills of a large town that never changes or learns, my moments of joy here, my endless confusions with the book I hold in my hands. The music I produce is not quite the grandchild of either BB King Elvis or Issac Hayes , the sounds I alternately loved and hated growing up. It is only a cousin to the Hip-Hop music streaming out of my car windows and up and down the roads of my teenage years. I’ve now performed my music in several cities with local artist such as, Real Life Muzic (Fayetteville,NC) Anthony Cone of Third Rail Creative Studios (Fayetteville,NC) Big Game Produtions (Raleigh)……