Check out this awesome group, Buddy and Stacey with band member Jimi Hendrix from 1967.. So awesome!
Influences
Old time gospel and Southern Baptist church music my Grandma May played on the piano while I was growing up,All my Grandpa Mcfarlands old Appalacian Fiddle Tunes (He called them "Shoddishes")
All my Mom's old 40's big band music, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris day, Hank Williams Sr., Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Rodney Crowell anything, Bluegrass greats like JD Crowe, Tony Rice, Bill Monroe,Ricki Skaggs, The Stanley Brothers,Emmy Lou Harris,George Jones, Dolly Parton, Porter Waggoner, Slim Wilson, Danny Flowers, Jimmy Webb, John Fogerty James Brown, Yolanda Adams,Kirk Franklin,Lee Williams and the Spiritual QCS,The Mighty Clouds of Joy, Bootsy Collins, P-Funk, Atlanta Rhythm Section, ZZ Top, Elton John, The Rainmakers, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Bach, Beethoven, Strauss, Pavarotti, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tina Turner,Kiss, Aerosmith, John Mayer, Blind Boys of Alabama, Nancy Griffith, The Sex Pistols, Green Jello, Run DMC, Nine Inch Nails, Paul Simon, Michelle Shocked,The Neville Brothers, New Orleans Jazz traditional music/Cajun dance music such as Hair of the Dog! Numerous Mowtown artists such as Marvin Gaye,Lionel Richie, The Commodores,Diana Ross, The Supremes,The Temptations,Gladys Knight and the Pips,Stevie Wonder, Lots of newer music like Plain White T's , Dylan Eiland and Efterklang, Dance remixes by FORD, I am truly inspired and love to listen to anything if it is done well or at least with spirit :)
I grew up in the Ozark Hills near Branson Missouri.
My first Memory is dancing to my Grandpa playing the fiddle at Music parties. I started playing the banjo in high school, and formed a couple of different bluegrass bands with me playing the banjo and my Mom playing upright bass.
After I graduated from high school, I practiced about six hours a day for a year on the drums, and became accomplished enough to play professionally around the Midwest in a three piece 50's-60's band called "Young, Loud, and Wrong".
Around that time I married and lived in Kansas City Missouri with Robert Walkenhorst of the "Rainmakers." We got a record deal with EMI/ Mercury/Polygram for his band, and traveled a lot around the world promoting records for the Rainmakers.
I moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1993 and attended the "Atlanta Institute of Music."
I earned a degree in Bass playing while there..Graduated with honors, first female to do so.
I have been writing for most of my life. I have just started deciding I will write more as a lifestyle this past year.
I also want to share with people in hopes of blessing someone that while living in Atlanta, I becaome very ill. I developed a very severe vocal illness called "Spasmodic Dysphonia." I went from being able to speak normally to not having any voice at all in about a three week period. It was brought on by a lot of factors, mainly stress, overuse, and not knowing how to apply proper breath support for the amount of talking I was doing with my business.
My voice completely dissappeared for three years. I was told by several medical specialists that I might not ever regain the ability to speak clearly.
So, I went on a spiritual journey to figure out why I got so sick, and how to get completely well.
I did get completely well, and also learned a great deal of information about health, breathing, how the voice is produced, how to produce proper breath support for vocal health and longevity, great vocal support exercises I do daily, well being, wellness, how to be happy regardless of circumstances.
I am writing a book with the help of a friend of mine that will outline all I went through, and how I got well.
I actually didn't sing before, and from re-learning to speak with the proper breath support, I learned to sing. Great benefit of the whole process!
Love, Tedi
Tedi May
Hey Tedi: Good to hear you guys are doing well. Me and the fiddle player from Blairesville have our own group now. We are called The Mountain Top Travelers. We've had several shows since we started together in February. We play somewhere alomsot every weekend so far. This weekend we had two shows today one at 4:30p and another at 8p. Check us out at myspace.com/mountaintoptravelers. WE have just started the site so not good yet. No music downloaded etc. your site is great by the way!! Take care and maybe we can pick together sometime! Love, Cathy E.
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