Tommy Kaelin

Tommy Kaelin released his album Dreams in November of 2022.

Tommy is a drummer best known for playing in the band The Hatters who were signed to Atlantic Records in the 90’s. They recently put out the single Gunsmoke Tommy. In the 90’s they put out three albums, toured extensively and had a couple of songs on regular radio play throughout the US.

He also played in Vince Welnick of The Grateful Dead‘s solo project. In the mid 90’s he began playing with bass player Greg Koerner in Gent Treadly. They went on to back up Vince Welnick in 2002 for four years until his death in 2006. Gent Treadly has multiple recordings out and has done tours and shows backing up Tom Constantine of The Grateful Dead, Buddy Cage of The New Riders of the Purple Sage, Charles Neville of The Neville Brothers, Garth Hudson of The Band, Mike Stern, Henry Butler and many others.

In the mid 90’s he also joined up with The Michael Parrish Band (Geographic Records) which led to his playing with Michael Parrish in the band Folkfoot and currently in the bands The West Side All Stars and Michael Parrish and The Parrishioners. There is a West Side Allstars album in the works. Stay tuned.

Dreamspeak was the band that started it out for Tommy. He played with them from 1985-1989 in the burgeoning NYC jam band scene that also included Jono Manson, The Worms, Blues Traveler and The Spin Doctors among others. They recently put out the lost recording At the Art Farm.

Gravity, Famous Unknown, Kenny Gwyn, Nick Swan and The Lost Highwaymen, Jerry Jemmott and Coyote Love are some other bands and musicians that he’s played with also.

These days along with Michael Parrish he also plays with the The Rusty String Band, North Bound Sound, Cats Under The Stars and Gent Treadly.

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