Tony has been playing music all his life. He began as a gospel piano player and singer in his teens and took up guitar and banjo during the folk era. He became a professional musician in 1970 in New York and played everywhere from Gerde's Folk City to Carnagie Hall.

In 1975 he bought a Telecaster and put together a highly successful country band. For the next 5 years he toured from Nashville to Las Vegas. He opened for or played back up for Kitty Wells, Bill Anderson, Cal Smith, Ian Tyson and lots of other friends and heroes.

In 1980 he moved to LA and put together a band. He played the Palomino, the Cowboy, the Crazy Horse Saloon, the Cowboy Palace and lots of other clubs. In the late 80s he net and married Jo Ann, and bought a ranch in a climate that could "take the hide off a rhino."

"I still like to get out and shake it up once in a while," Tony says. In recent years he's played at the Autry National Center, The Kern County Museum Cowboy Days, Elko, Monterrey, the Lone Pine Film Festival, Calico Ghost Town and hundreds of other concerts, clubs, campfires, cowboy gatherings and parties for the love of music. He works alone with his flat top guitar or with his band and knows a wide variety of songs, old and new. He's a born entertainer and after 50 years of playing is still going strong.