Thomas J."Tbone" Hamilton started playing the electric bass when he was 12. Influenced by John Entwhistle, Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Jaco, to name a few.

He formed the garage rock band Fake Voices. Then in his late teens he was the cofounder of the power trio - B E H. Moving to the Tampa Bay area in the late 80's, Tbone "got the blues".

He founded the blues quartet, The Blue Thunder Band. While at a blues party legendary Blues Harmonica player, Rockbottom discovered Tbone, offered him a gig, and the rest is history.

As a bassist and vocalist, Tbone's unique talents have been featured with such acts as Rockbottom and the Cutaways, The Telephone Kings, Sarasota Slim, The Deacon Fuller Band, The Poulos Ramsey Band, Dan Electro and the Silvertones, Delta Son, Kim Harpo Blues Band, Keith Caton and the Accelerators, The Charlie Morris Blues Band, The Hamiltones, The Walker Smith Group, DW Gill & The Blue Phantoms, The Juke Joint Kings, Jazz and Connie, and Angel for Blues.

With this strong blues background, TBone decided to form The Swinging Johnsons in 1995. A highly successful Jazz band in the Tampa Bay, Tbone led the band as its frontman and help to perform on and produce two high quality CDs "Get A Life" in 1999, and "Duck" in 2002. The CD's feature the some of his original tunes. The Swinging Johnsons then re-tooled and became The Hamilton-Harris Project. The HHP recorded its only release "Live Matters" a live Jazz standards record featuring Dan Harris, Marilyn Freemon, Mike Aloia, & Ken Loomer.

Tbone has also shared the stage with Albert Collins, Clarence Clemons, The Marshall Tucker Band, Johnny Winter, and has performed at the Bradenton Blues Fest. In addition, Tbone had done session work with blues guitarist Ronnie Earl, for Rockbottom's CD "Too Many Bad Habits"