Scott Tuma

Scott Tuma is a musician from Chicago who is best known for his live performances and also for having played guitar in the pioneering alt-country band Souled American. Since his departure from Souled American in the late 1990s Tuma has released numerous solo albums, performed and recorded with Chicago's Boxhead Ensemble, and collaborated with members of the band Zelienople in a project dubbed Good Stuff House.

Discography

• 2001 Hard Again (Atavistic Records)
• 2003 The River 1 2 3 4 (Truckstop Records)
• 2008 Not For Nobody (Digitalis Recordings)
• 2009 Taradiddle With Mike Weis LP (Digitalis Recordings)
• 2010 Peeper/Love Songs Loud and Lonely - Split with Brothers Pus (Bathetic)
• 2010 Dandelion (Digitalis Recordings)
• 2014 "Hard Again / The River 1 2 3 4 (2xLP) (Scissor Tail Editions)
• 2014 'Cracker Where am I?' Cassette' (Bathetic -Dynasty at Ghost Town'
• 2015 Eyrie (Immune)
• 2016 "Ragged Hollow 12" Split w/ Nevada Greene" (Hitt Records)
• 2017 'No Greener Grass' 2xLP (Dismal Niche)
• 2022 'Nobody's Music' cassette/cd (haha.institute)
• 2023 'Gone to Turin' 12" Split w/ Loren Connors (A West Bound Brook) (Profane Illuminations)

Featured in Film

• 2010 The Wolf Knife by Laurel Nakadate
• 2015 Felt by Jason Banker
• 2016 Accident Report by Mike Hoolboom
• 2023 Aint Got Time To Die by Marten Krafft
• 2023 Provo by Emma Thatcher

With the Boxhead Ensemble

• 1998 The Last Place to Go (Atavistic Records)
• 2001 Two Brothers (Atavistic Records)
• 2003 Quartets (Atavistic Records)

With Souled American

• 1988 Fe (Rough Trade Records)
• 1988 Flubber (Rough Trade Records)
• 1990 Around the Horn (Rough Trade Records)
• 1992 Sonny (Rough Trade Records)
• 1994 Frozen (Moll Tonträger)
• 1996 Notes Campfire(Moll Tonträger)

With Good Stuff House

• 2006 "Good Stuff House" CD-R (Time-Lag Records)
• 2008 "Endless Bummer" (Root Strata)

Other guest appearances

• 2000 Jack the Dog - "Missa Canibus" (set design, Orchard Records)
• 2002 Bevel - "Where Leaves Block the Sun" (harmonica, Jagjaguwar Records)

References

• Tiny Mix Tapes review of No Greener Grass
• Lost in a Sea of Sound Blog Review of No Greener Grass
• SF Weekly article
• AllMusic entry for Hard Again
• AllMusic entry for The River 1 2 3 4