Award nominee poster for Calgary's Music Awards 2025, featuring a train and the album cover for 'Ghost Train and Other Scary Tales Part 1' by Mark Dillon, with event details and sponsor information.

Ghost Train has been nominated for Blues Recording of the Year

I’m incredibly honoured to be nominated for Blues Recording of the Year at The YYC Music Awards. This is the second year in a row that I’ve been nominated, and I can’t put into words how incredible that feels. My fellow nominees are awesome artist and you should do your self a favour and check out, Marcus Trummer, Corbie Doner, Ollee Owens, and Malcolm. The awards ceremony takes place on September 28th.

Man with long hair, beard, black hat, black embroidered shirt, sitting on steps holding a semi-hollow electric guitar with a sunburst finish.

Mark Dillon is a Blues musician from Calgary, Alberta.

He is currently looking for a drummer for his live band

Poster of Mark Dillon's live music performance titled "Live at the Meeting of the Blues Crew," featuring colorful artwork of a musician with a guitar. The poster has a neon aesthetic with purple, pink, and red colors.

Live…At the Meeting of the Blues Crew

is out now available only at

1.    Intro/Whiskey Sam 

2. It's a Sin 

3. Hereafter 

4. Death Letter Blues 

5. Drinking with all my Friends 

6. Old Barn Blues 

7. Still Alive and Well 

8. Ghosts of old Kilbride 

9. Rollin and Tumblin 

10. Psychedelic Super Freak 

11. T.A. Vern's

A spooky scene featuring a steam train with smoke billowing from its chimney, traveling through a dark, foggy forest under a full moon with a ghostly face. The book title is 'Ghost Train and Other Scary Tales Part 1' by Mark Dillen.

GHOST TRAIN

Available Everywhere Now


Featuring 4 new tracks

MODERN VOODOO

WHISTLIN’ PAST THE GRAVE YARD ( Tom Waits cover )

GHOST TRAIN

DECAPITATED LOVER BLUES

T.A. Vern’s is out now!

My debut album is now available where ever you get digital music. If you buy it on BAND CAMP you will get 2 exclusive bonus tracks

Bar scene featuring two men dressed as religious and devilish figures with neon signs and artwork in the background, including a sign that reads 'T.A. Vern's' and a name 'Mark Dillon' at the bottom.

T.A. Vern’s has been nominated for Blues Recording of the Year at the YYC Music Awards

Poster for Blues Recording of the Year at the NYC Music Awards, featuring album covers of Erin Ross' 'The Wind Will Lead Me Home,' John Rutherford's 'Midnight Microphone,' and Mark Dillon's 'T.A. Vern's'.

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T.A Vern’s landed at #9 on the National Blues Chart

A chart titled 'The National Folk/Roots/Blues Chart' for the week ending May 28, 2024, listing the top ten folk, roots, blues music albums with columns for chart position, artist, album title, label, and chart appearances. Artists include Leaf Rapids, The Deep Dark Woods, Sue Foley, Emily Triggs, Elliott BROOD, Shaela Miller, Adrianne Lenker, Corb Lund, Markillon, and Big Fancy & The Shiddy Cowboys.