TJ McFarland

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TJ McFarland is a singer/songwriter from Tulsa, OK.

Born in Belle Fourche, SD on New Year's Eve, his family moved to Noble, OK when he was five. He would spend the majority of his childhood in Oklahoma until moving to Mandan, ND for his final three years of high school. While attending college at Eastern Okahoma State on a baseball scholarship he began to perform shows in the region and eventually formed his first band, focusing predominantly on the music of Bob Wills, George Strait and Merle Haggard.

He released his first independent album in 2003, Storm Clouds, which included eleven of his compositions, backed predominantly by Tulsa musicians and produced by himself and fellow musician Rick Morton.

In 2004 he released TJ McFarland & The Revolvers, an EP that included the first versions of the songs Emmy and Wherever's After Crazy that would be included on his next release.

Rosenbum's Gin was recorded in Hollywood at the famed Radio Recorders and included numerous California-based musicians including former Linda Ronstadt axe-slinger Waddy Wachtel and Lester Chambers of the Chambers brothers. McFarland wrote or co-wrote all the compositions and the title track was written with fiddle legend Vassar Clements.