Tom Shaner is an American songwriter, musician, producer performer, video director and writer based in New York City.

Informed by American acoustic and electric Blues, Sun Records, the British Invasion, to Punk, New Wave, to Hip Hop, and Indie Rock, Shaner is known for his rich and mercurial songwriting.

Before becoming a solo artist, Tom was lead singer and songwriter for NYC based band Industrial Tepee, and was a buddy and protégé of Jeff Buckley.

"[2] Similar accolades were given by James McQuiston of NeuFutur Magazine: "There are few singer-songwriters that are able to create something that successfully marries the rich tradition brought the genre by luminaries like Dylan and Cohen in the sixties with a vitality and vibrancy that is germane to current audiences.

"[1] Shaner then released the full-length album "Ghost Songs, Waltzes, and Rock and Roll" (2012) on the Mother West Label to critical acclaim.

‘Forever Drug’, from his latest album ‘Ghost Songs, Waltzes and Rock & Roll’, for example, sounds like Beck jamming with Alabama.

Tom’s songs often have an undercurrent of humour running through them; even the more somber numbers have an eccentricity to them that few artists can muster...Shaner’s music has an infectious swagger and underlying positivity that seems effortless.

The new record was produced by Tom and mastered by Grammy winner Brian Lucey (The Black Keys, The Shins, The Arctic Monkeys, Beck, The Arcs).

After spending one year at Bard college, he attended New York University where he studied theater under William H. Macey and David Mamet.

Among the musicians and friends Shaner has worked with are Whit Smith of Hot Club of Cowtown, Claude Coleman, Jr., of Ween,” Pete Fand, Paul Wegmann, Josh Margolis, Phil Cohen, Bob Sharkey, Rob Cimno, Dan Green, Chris Harfenist of “Sound of Urchin,” Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards, Emmy Bean, and many others.

He composed songs for two plays, one Bertolt Brecht's "The Good Person of Szechwan" the other, Max Frisch’s "The Firebugs" for director Eric Bass, of the Sandglass Theater.