I learned to love music in my pre teens while listening to my uncle's old Buddy Holly 78s. As I grew I took drums in school, and then switched to guitar at age 13. Since then I've tried to learn any instrument I could get my hands on. The only one I ever felt any measure of success with is upright bass, until in the fall of 2003 I picked up a banjo.
It became an instant obsession. I began to learn the old mountain songs, adapt modern worship songs to the claw hammer rhythms, and write like never before. For me the late 60s, and early 70s are a blur of drugs and alcohol. In 1974 I was given a bible in modern English. It was a turning point in my life. It said things I knew to be true. A way of life I knew to be the only way to truly live. Since that time I've played in several contemporary Christian bands, I've been on a lot worship teams, and I was the worship leader for The "Vine Community Church" from 1995 To 2004. I've always had a love for blue grass, and mountain music, and I've done a bit of pick up work over the years. For ten years I was a member of "The Almost Brothers" (An old time string band.) I released my first album "sparrow" in the spring of 2007. Songs written about real life with the haunting melodies that can only be played on a claw hammer banjo.

Tommy Ogle