Tom Heyman offers up an elegiac slice of San Francisco life in the video for ‘24th Street Blues’. The video is for the title track of Heyman’s latest album. The video features still photographs of San Francisco street scenes. All of the images were captured and edited together by director Jon Warfield Harrison. The images match the quiet yet hopeful vibe of the recording. Heyman is joined by Rusty Miller on Bass and Piano and Scott Hirsch on percussion. Heyman has lived in a sprawling and dilapidated converted-storefront on 24th Street, deep in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District, since the turn of the millennium. This gives him a front-row seat to the rapid changes occurring in one of America’s most maligned cities.
“If you stay somewhere long enough, you really start to see it change,” he explains. “Around 2010, the city started to feel like a sped up movie, jerking and lurching forward at a dangerously fast, celluloid-shredding pace with market forces feeling like a locomotive bearing down on anything or anyone in its path.”
Heyman will be touring the UK beginning in March 2024.
