The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Janice Joplin, my Mama, my Papa, Jonathan Terrell, Six Pence NTR, Ani DiFranco, Over the Rhine, Allison Krauss, Dolly Parton (don't laugh!! She's not all boobs, you know), Patty Griffin, Mandy Mann, Katy Bowser and a ton of other friends whose music influences me every day. The poetry of y'all is beautiful.
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Ariana Terrell is a singer/songwriter,
living, working, and being a new wife in
Nashville, TN. Her latest album, Scenes from a
Moving Car is her first fully produced effort. It
is at once playful, soulful, sorrowful, searching,
and moving as she sings through a unique set of
her own songs.
The eager rhythm of
Porter Road, the first track on the album, takes
us through this story-song filled with details and
word pictures, yet never losing the melody and
flow. Track number six, Free, is a rainy
soundscape with throaty melody and unhindered
soulful singing that swells with power and grace
through the last chorus and bridge.
And
then she switches gears for the next track, No
Hands, which sings with a quiet intimacy; an
almost breathless love song, filled with her
unique character and trick of words that leave you
with a picture, a moment in time, suspended in the
wind with arms wide and the quiet freedom of love
captured. The ninth track (Psalm 103) was written
by good firends of Ariana's, Mandy Mann and her
husband Kevin. (www.myspace.com/mandymann)
Ariana was born November 15th, 1976 in
Athens, Greece, the third of seven children. Her
missionary parents spent their time in clubs and
bars, talking to the lost, wandering souls of the
hippie era. While pregnant with Ariana, her mama
wrote songs and sang, and her papa played the
guitar, both in a band that was part of their
missionary work. Talk about your environmental
influences! They came back to the States after
having lived all over Europe for 8 years, in 1979.
Ariana says "Growing up Longview (TX)
with 3 brothers and 3 sisters was like having our
own gang! We lived out in the country on my
grampa's land. It was the joys of mud, GI Joes,
creeks and ponds, tree climbing, horseback riding,
singing with my brothers and sisters like we were
the Von Trapps (without the alps, of course),
soccer games, Rec-Specs, and high school choir
dresses that would beat any tacky 80's prom dress,
HANDS DOWN. Not to mention the 'mall hair'
incident that will never again be repeated. It was
great!"
In 1997 Ariana taught herself to
play a few chords her papa's guitar and wrote her
first song. She spent the next two years of school
learning to play during late night sessions on
'the island,' a patch of grass in the women's dorm
parking lot where fellow musicians gathered to
jam, and through necessity as the only Young Life
leader in Stephenville, who could play guitar for
Club. After college she had a brief stint with a
local worship band in her home town and began to
write songs on a regular basis. With the band's
encouragement, she began playing her songs
regularly at their Friday night gigs at the Green
Street Caf.
She moved to Nashville in
January of 2000 and has since recorded Impatiently
waiting for You, 2000, her first album and Scenes
From A Moving car, 2003. Ariana currently plays around locally in Nashville to sell the boxes of CDs that she has in the closet and writes "more songs than the world at large will ever get to hear" with friends and by herself. She does the occasional jaunt to Texas where she plays with her rock star brother, Jonathan Terrell
Ariana, I could listen to your voice for hours and hours. Sometimes when I am up against a news deadline, I log on and just listen to your songs. It helps me take away all the distractions of this busy newsroom. The songs are amazing! I never get tired of hearing them. Hope you are doing well! Have a Merry Christmas! -Alyson
Hey lady - sorry I wasn't able to make your party a couple of weeks ago. I was in Chicago. And no, not moving there, just had a work conference there...although, if I could live anywhere else...that would be one really good option. Hope all is well...
awwww! thanks! she is pretty dang cute. thanks for the feeding help. seems to be working. i dont understand it but whatever! i'll tell her you said she's beautiful! i know she'll wanna hear it. love you.
