Audio engineer returns to Thibodaux, plans music licensing platform

In a small, second-floor office in downtown Thibodaux, an audio engineer is looking to harness the sounds of the bayou community.

Having retired from the Navy and Coast Guard, Adam W. Thomas has moved home and is chasing a dream of sharing the bayou tunes with the wider world. Above the Willow Cafe, he toils in a small office, creating an online platform to store and lease music, sound bites and other audio files. Thomas said he plans to be the middleman between those looking for the sound or song and the artists. Bayou Soundtrack should be up and running by the end of the year, he said.

"It's like being a matchmaker, I'm looking for music to fit the narrative of this shoe commercial," he said. "It's a place where you can come and shelve your audio or music file. It would allow customers who are probably looking for that type of stuff to come to Bayou Soundtrack and shop for different audio files, pieces of music, or anything of that nature."

Thomas has worked with more than 25 different musicians through the years developing their sounds with his record label F.A.M.O.U.S. Entertainment. Musicians included Rickey Jones; J-Boi, Jason Lockhart; and Black_Hart!, Marlon Robinson.

He's an audio engineer at heart, working with musicians to record and mix albums. Just last year, he worked on an album for a friend, Lance Mitchell, to record an album for another artist. The unpublished single, Crazy Girls, by Fooliano featured Killah Priest, the Wu-Tang Clan affiliate.

Bayou Soundtrack is not just limited to musicians, Thomas said. For example, movies and video game companies are searching for the right sound for their projects. Thomas intends to work with artists to develop their sounds, and market them to these types of customers.

"It's not just music that I'm looking for," he said. "It could be soundscape, like the rippling of the water, you know a whole bunch of sound effects like traffic, various people saying things, and I mean obviously the way we talk down here, that in itself has its own valuable niche to it."

Thomas said when he's nearing completion he'll make an announcement on his Facebook page, which can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/mradamwthomas?mibextid=ZbWKwL.