Tom Adams has just published a new book of banjo transcriptions taken from his playing on Audie Blaylock’s Trains Are The Only Way To Fly CD. The book contains tabs for all Tom’s breaks and multiple backup sections in this 34 page spiral bound volume.
Adams came to the attention of the bluegrass world as a member of Jimmy Martin’s Sunny Mountain Boys in the 1980s – which is also where he first met Audie Blaylock, who was on mandolin with Martin at the time. The two mens’ paths would continue to cross as Adams and Blaylock later worked together with both Lynn Morris and Rhonda Vincent.
Tom describes his picking on the Trains CD as emblematic of the style he used when he played with Jimmy Martin – aggressive and hard-driving – with much of the material coming from the Martin repertoire.
The book is available from Tom’s Adams County Banjo web site, along with his three other banjo tab books.
