CROOKED EYE TOMMY with "OVER AND OVER", from the 2015 album, "Butterflies and Snakes".

Blues videos are notoriously difficult to make - at least, this is what I have found in my past dealings with them. The sultry nature of the songs, especially this one, make it hard to find decent media other than the predictable rubbish I see on other sites. I came to do this edit with media in my hand that I found to be just plain wrong. I had to go back to the drawing board, so to speak, on more than one occasion as I was making it - improvising as I was going along. Finally, I came up with what you will see, or won't see, in this video. I have tried my utmost to just leave it all to the imagination. It really is the best solution. I hope you will enjoy watching it, as much as I enjoyed making it and bringing it to you.

Crooked-Eye Tommy Marsh
American Blues Recording Artist.
on Blue Heart Records
Band Leader at CROOKED EYE TOMMY
Winner 2021 Hollywood Music in Media Award Best Blues Song
Finalist 2020 International Blues Challenge
Hall of Fame Inductee Ventura County Music Awards
7 Time Ventura County Music Award winning Artist.
Owner/Operator OJAI BLUES FEST & CROOKED EYE BLUESFEST
Highly Capable Event Producer & Festival Operator.
Owner Operator Plano Road Publishing

Crooked Eye Tommy
'Butterflies and Snakes'
By T.E. Mattox

Butterflies and Snakes CD cover

When you load the CD Butterflies and Snakes into your sound system, you know from the onset Crooked Eye Tommy isn't your run-of-the-mill blues band. The entire recording is based around multiple styles, assorted genres and two lifetimes of influence. From the swamp-like vibe of the opening track through the weeping steel guitar highlighting the finale there's a brand new, old school familiarity that resonates throughout each one of the eleven original songs.

Brothers Tommy and Paddy Marsh grew up surrounded by music, so when I ran into them in the remote, gold-mining town of Julian, California (long story) it only seemed natural to start with the unique musical collaboration that is Crooked Eye Tommy. "I don't think we define ourselves in any straight up genre," says Tommy. "I think if you listen to our music you'll hear all the influences that we grew up with… certainly blues, Southern rock, country music, bluegrass, we grew up in the Central Valley (California) and there's a tune on the record that's straight country, it's a straight country tune. It's hard to pigeon hole us, I don't think that that's really possible."

Let's talk about who's playing in the band? "My brother, Paddy Marsh, he's a songwriter and wrote three of the songs that are on the record and we do a couple of more of his tunes live. Josh Herbst is our drummer, on the bass, Samuel Correa who is a fantastic bass player and formerly with the Dennis Jones Band. Currently on keyboards and vocals Michael Katnic, and on Hammond B3 Bill Bilhou who played on the CD and who is an old friend that I've known for twenty plus years."

And you all came together as a band… how? "Actually Billy (Bilhou) and I met strangely enough when we both applied to play in another band," Tommy says. "We both answered an ad to play music with a guy named Bobby Lee, a country guy. We answered the ad and met that day and became friends and ended up working together for about five years in a day job and played music together at night. So he's been family, you know? Paddy and I of course have been playing together since we were children."

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