Tim Gibbons | en

Tim Gibbons first started playing music in high school as a drummer in garage bands, then switched to banjo and guitar around the age of seventeen. It was then that he scored his first professional job playing guitar in a blues combo backing exotic dancers at a notorious burlesque theatre called “Starvin’ Marvins”. Emboldened by this experience he left home to play in a series of country bands and at one point was playing guitar for a travelling hair tonic show. The eighties found him rocking out in such bands as The Shakers and the Trouble Boys. These bands also provided early recording experiences resulting in the Shakers’ “In Time” and the Trouble Boys’ “Pass the Bottle Baby”. He also recorded a rare out of print solo album entitled “Dead Guy Won A Muffin”. It wasn’t long after that a serious alcohol abuse problem landed him in hospital, stopping his music career short. Rescued by guitar playing pal Daniel Lanois, he soon found himself in L.A. recruited to play bass, drums and organ on Lanois’ soundtrack to the Oscar winning film ‘Slingblade’. After this he toured Texas with another guitar playing friend, the late bluesman Chris Whitley. He also released another solo recording with producer Mark Howard, 1999′s ‘Shylingo”. .