Artist:Jon Gomm
Song:Ain't Nobody
Album:Secrets Nobody Keeps: Passionflower 10th Anniversary Edition
British guitarist Jon Gomm is popular with what I call guitar geeks. These are music fans who are concerned with guitar technique. The music is secondary. It's a significant secondary music market because these guitar geeks are pretty rabid. And it's not only for albums but videos and guitar tabs because many guitar geeks are aspiring guitarists. This 2013 cover of the Chaka Khan hit Ain't Nobody is probably Gomm's best known recording. He was born July 11, 1977 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. His father is a music critic. Gomm started taking guitar lessons at age four. He played electric guitar as a teen. After graduating from high school, Gomm attended the Guitar Institute in London. While there, he played in jazz clubs, played sessions and played line dance clubs. Then he studied Jazz at the Leeds College of Music. And that's when he started experimenting with making drum and bass sounds on his guitar. He's unique enough to interest guitar geeks. He tours but he usually plays small clubs. And he plays guitar festivals. Gomm has recorded since 2003 mostly for his own label. This cover of Ain't Nobody is from his 2013 album Secrets Nobody Keeps. This is probably his best known album because it was crowdfunded. Gomm wrote and produced except for two covers. For his 2020 album The Faintest Idea, Gomm signed with Snapper Music's Kscope label. He actually sings on this album. Kscope released a 10th anniversary edition of Secrets Nobody Keeps. It has a bonus track and new cover art. Gomm does his own covers. That's the version that is available on CD. Gomm will do a couple of shows in Europe this weekend. Here's Jon Gomm performing Ain't Nobody at the Northern Film School in Leeds, England.
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