Vocals, Harmonies and Rhythm Guitar:
TERI GARRISON
Rhythm and Lead Guitar:
DJANGO PORTER
Bass and Lead Guitar:
DANNY performs on "Wise Up Woman"
Rhythm Guitar:
MICHAEL KLEIN performs on "Wise Up Woman"
National Steel and Harmonica:
GUY FORSYTH
Bowed and Upright Bass:
BB MORSE
Drums:
PAUL PEARCY
DONNIE performs on "Wise Up Woman"
Fiddle:
JOHNNY GIMBLE
CHAMP WOOD performs on "Will I Find You"
PAUL ROBERTSON performs on "Love No Longer Lives"
Back Up Vocals:
MALFORD MILLIGAN
GUY FORSYTH
DJANGO PORTER
BB MORSE
Sounds Like
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Discover what Willie Nelson and Bonnie Bramlett discovered!
THE EYES from Teri Garrison
Produced by Willie Nelson
featuring Willie Nelson & Bonnie Bramlett
It's not often that an unknown artist is able to impress such legendary musicians as Willie Nelson and Bonnie Bramlett.
Teri Garrison is such an artist.
Soulful blues and country. Teri Garrison has sung with and opened for; Willie Nelson, Willie Dixon, Robben Ford, Leon Russell, Leo Kottke, and more. Her new CD on Pedernales Records (Townes VanZant) features; Willie Nelson, Guy Forsyth, Malford Milligan, BB Morse, and Johnny Gimbel.
She possesses a rare and raw vocal power that she pours into the blues with all her heart, as these samples from her album The Eyes proves.
She brings that same power to her newest gospel album, now in production.
TERI GARRISON is a unique and expressive singer who has performed with numerous artists. Years as a background singer have given way to a vibrant performing and recording career both solo and in front of her own band. Musicians in her live and studio bands have included; DAVID LINDLEY, JEFF BAXTER, MICKEY RAPHAEL, ROCK DEDRICK, GUY FORSYTH, JOHNNY GIMBEL, RUSS KUNKEL, KENNY LYON and ROBBEN FORD.
Having recently returned to Maui from a Midwest road tour opening for WILLIE NELSON, TERI released her latest album on CD: "THE EYES" on Willie Nelson's new PEDERNALES LABEL and TYG RECORDS. It includes 10 new songs from TERI and 2 new RANDY TRAVIS songs featuring harmonies by WILLIE NELSON. Having written over 300 songs, TERI was honored when her song, "THE EYES" won at Nashville's "EMBASSY MUSIC SONGWRITER'S CONTEST". Garrison will be featured in the TV pilot of the same event filmed at the Gaylord Opryland.
TERI is a long time resident on the island of Maui in Hawaii where she performs whenever she's not on the road touring. She also had the house band for NBC's REAL PEOPLE. TERI has sung with or opened for: LEON RUSSELL, LEO KOTTKE, PETER ROWAN, STEVE GILETTE, DAVID CROSBY, HOYT AXTON, TANYA TUCKER, THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS, DON HENLEY, and BONNIE RAITT among others and of course WILLIE NELSON, who she singles out as a great inspiration, saying, "He is one artist who not only has a heart of gold, but lives by it too."
You can purchase "ONLY LOVE" - TERI'S studio collaboration with DAVID LINDLEY, "THE EYES", OR "]OY" (PEDERNALES RECORDS compilation CD featuring WILLIE NELSON) at WWW.TERIGARRISON.COM, WWW. AMAZON.COM, or WATERLOO RECORDS.
But the real story here is her music. Belying her fragile, chiseled, blue-eyed beauty, TERI's voice is rich and powerful; a blues instrument of Joplinesque power, yet capable of bringing tears to an audience with the softest of ballads. Add an uncanny knack for writing songs that explore not only herself, but her world and her faith and you have a compelling performer of the highest order.
But these are just words, find the music, then listen, then you'll know.
Teri playing Miss Bobbie Nelson's grand piano at Pedernales Studios.
Here's a recent write up from the September 12th, 2005 issue of Maui Entertainment Guide:
This story is as much about inspiration as music, or maybe more. In either
case, it is a heartwarming story of a woman with a bunch of talent, “sheer
determination” and ethe-real vision. We have all heard the cliche “things happen for a reason”. By the end of this story, I hope you will agree
that never has such a generality had more truth.
Teri begrudgingly admitted to being born in Knoxville, Tennesee and was
not too fond of having gone to “twenty schools in eighteen years”. But that
experience, although it made her shy, from always having to adapt to new
environments, gave her the determination to get where she is today...on top.
She is not only on top of her career, but seems to handle her life, and her family, just as well.
At nineteen, she had a baby, didn’t have a husband, didn’t really know
where to go in llife, and harbored a lot of questions. Throw in a major car accident and you have the equation of a young woman in trouble. “ I woke up in the hospital with ten tubes and a morphine drip after major surgery and I was in intensive care. I remember writing a note to the doctor that said, “I’m Ok”. The Doctor said no you’re not. You’ll be here for another six days, and in the hospital for a few more months.
After several more demands, the tubes came out that night, and I was out of the hospital the next day. I was out of the hospital in four days and I started writing songs, and I got this kind of vision. God gave me a vision of this earth and what to do and how to be addressing it. Sometimes I hear songs that have the fabric of that vision, which comes from a distance. I heard that not long after my experience and I thought, now that’s a song. It’s all about making a difference and doing the right thing.
So I just started writing songs in a journal. Then shorly after, I began wondering how to transpose them. I didn’t play anything, so just by sheer determination, I picked up a guitar because I had to find a way to record these melodies that were in my head. I had never written at all, this is really when my life began. I was pretty bad (at guitar).
Within the first year of the my vision, I had written two songs, and one of them was about New Orleans, called Jellyroll Blues. I was nearly killed on the same road as Betsy Smith was killed, and I survived a very similar story. So I felt she was my guardian angel, and I started writing all these blues songs. That’s when I met Willie Dixon and immediately felt a kindred spirit. I got to sing with him and, you know, I didn’t really know how to play guitar. It was really bold of me to be there in the first place, so I played a song...and he said, “Well, you got a really big voice. I like the voice. You definitely got a voice but you gotta learn how to squeeeze that guitar a little bit harder.” I hung out with him and his family but I was too shy to accept his offer to record me. I just kept moving on and meeting amazing people in the music world.”
And meet amazing people she did meet, mostly through her biggest fans,
her girlfriends. “I came from the street university. The first person I gave a
demo tape to was Lowell George of Little Feet. I met him a few months
before he died, Lowell, “I’m a songwriter, can I play you a song?” He harsh-
ly agreed, (he was pretty sick at the time) and said “OK bring a demo tape to my room in ten minutes”. I looked at my girlfriend and said, “what’s a demo
tape”. So she told me, and we stayed up until two in the morning and made a
demo tape... and it was junk.
I ran up to his room, he allowed me to enter (I had my keyboard player
downstairs for backup). He played it right away, which I respected, and
stopped in the middle of the first song and said, “this really sucks”. I thought,
it’s all over before it begins, it’s over. He said “you don’t know what you’re doing do you”. I said “no”. He said, “you got a great voice but you don’t know what you’re doing. The whole key to music is who is behind you, the musicians. You’ve got to surround yourself with people who are better than you. You go out and find them, and beg them and call them. Do whatever it takes to get the best people. Now get out of here”.
That was so informtive for me at that time. I was on this mission. So, I was writing, and I had a dream of Neil Young, and then I ended up meeting him. Then I dreamt of Willie Nelson, and met him a couple months later.
When I met Willie Nelson. I had the house band for Real People, and he was
doing the Glen Campbell show across the hall. So, as usual, a friend who really loved my music and worked in the studio where Willie was working, introduced me to him at a time when I was just singing back-up, and had not really told anyone about my songs. So he invited me over to his hotel room to sing and I was, whooooo! And he was such a gentleman, and so kind...I
walked out of his hotel room and said to myself...I’ve met angel!!! And to this day he hasn’t changed.
As far a songwriting goes, I never had a sense of making a career and being well known, I just feel like I have to get this song right, it’s going to make a difference. It is the greatest time in my life whenever I get a song, it’s still the same feeling, it’s wonderful, so I just wait for those moments. I just wrote a couple of new ones for New Orleans that I think are my best ever!
When you follow your heart it happens. And that’s what brought me to Maui.
Maui was so refreshing after LA. In LA, I did a couple of TV shows, had a
house band for NBC’s Real People and worked with Jeff Baxter of the Doobie
Brothers at the end. We had a house band at the House of Blues, but I was not inspired there.
My first gig on Maui was at the Pioneer Inn in 1989. Brooks Maguire
turned me on to some of my first work, and John Barbier. Back when Front Street was vital, you could work eight days a week and we all helped each other. Like Scotty Rotten and Barry Flanagan and Willie K. I remember one evening singing at the Pioneer Inn on Hallowen when this guy dressed in a BIG devil’s mask came up behind me carrying an electric guitar and everyone was wondering who it was until he started ripping. Willie K and I
always used to goof around, have fun and try to show each other up.
Presently, I have one CD with David Lindley called “Only Love” which was
the most fun I’ve ever had in my entire life. Mr. D, he’s my hero, I love Mr. D. He and his wife Joni are my buds.
Another CD is called “Joy”, a compilation, it has Willie on there, Billy Joe Shaver, Kris Kristofferson, Don Cherry...a bunch of people. “The Eyes” is my latest compilation and includes many stars, including Willie Nelson, Bonnie Bramblett and a new song by Randy Travis, pick it up.
I’m very excited about my new projects, I’m working on a Hawaiian CD and,
I went to Nashville and did this thing with Charlie Louvin of the Louvin
Brothers, who are a Seminol influence on most of the country singers, which is where I started...and I got to sing with them. And we talked about doing a
Bluegrass CD. That’s what I’m most excited about, because I would get to
work with one of my heroes.
It’s all about the musicians. I often think about if I were to do an interview, how could I do it to help another up-and-
coming or struggling musician.”
Teri, think no more.
Please check out terigarrison.com for more information about his lovely and talented angel. One of her songs is entitled “Follow Me”. If you have the pleasure of hearing this song, you will definitely want to follow her.
Teri Garrison
Her song “The Eyes”, won the 2005 Embasy Music Songwriter’s Contest in Nashville! “Music is my anchor, music is, ironically, what settled me down ”
The Maui Time has named Teri Garrison as BEST MUSICIAN on Maui for 2006 in its annual reader's poll issue:
"A country and blues singer/songwriter with over 300 original tunes under her belt, Teri Garrison achieved great renown when her song “The Eyes” recently won the Embassy Music Songwriter’s Contest in Nashville. She’s been on Maui forever, garnering vocal comparisons to Janis Joplin and playing gigs locally whenever she’s not on the road touring. She’s sung with and opened for Leon Russell, Leo Kottke, David Crosby, Tanya Tucker, Don Henley, Bonnie Raitt and Willie Nelson. And she’s got an album produced by and featuring Nelson, also called The Eyes—hey, it’s a lucky title. You can catch her live on Sundays at Jack’s Terrace, 843 Waine’e St., Lahaina, from 7 p.m. to close."
Teri was at "Austin City Limits" with the late GEORGE SCOTT from THE FIVE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA. George is dearly missed.
Teri, I just wanted to let you know that my CD, “Have Faith,” has finally been released and is now available! If you get a chance stop by and let me know how you are doing.
It was so great to hear from you. I too am happy about the little man that is my grandson. I can hardly wait to see him!! He is 5 and a half months old and just so precious. Grandma has tons of pictures. How is Joshua? Tell him Hi for me!! MB
So happy to find you again!!!! Thanks for being a great friend and for sharing yoour incredible talent with the world.....keep up the good work, you are a true inspiration!
Thought of you again today.......nothing but good thoughts when I think of you and your beautiful self....oh yeah and your voice isn't so bad either... *giggles* Happy, beautiful, God loving Teri!!!!! XOXO
How wonderful to hear from you. Sounds like you are busy!!! I am happy for you. Call me sometime and just say hello. I do miss you and Joshua.....Say Hi for me!!
.. Strong Tower Hey Teri THE TOWER HAS BECOME STRONGER SINCE YOU PLAYED AT THE THEATRE .. POWERFUL VIDEO Love Peace Joy Forever in Christ... Peace out Keith
Come and be part of saving the Royalty Theatre in downtown Clearwater, FL. ! We will be having a ticketed worship event on February 15th and 16th and all proceeds from the "Save the Royalty" concert and event series will go towards keeping the Royalty Theatre as a historical landmark in downtown Clearwater as well as a venue for Christian events and concerts. Help us preserve and save the Royalty! With Michael Tyrrell . live. shalom Keith
Hey there beautiful lady!! Where in the world are you right now? I just listened to your songs. I love your voice and i miss it!! How is Joshua?? Tell him I said Hi or Aloha!!
to the radio man and his tita....
to the full tilt einstein at the board sending signals...
doin' things no one's done before.
to the fiery dj strong enough for the job no one else would do...
wise enough to listen the truth
in between the notes...and speak it.
gentle enough to work for kokua just to make the aina smile... i say aloha... and
looking forward to your next show...i'll be listening
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! You and your friends are invited to stop by MySpace and share in a little Holiday Spirit by listening to "On Christmas Eve". May all your dreams come true this Holiday Season and always!!
Lots of love!!
Dian Diaz
“0n Christmas Eve” only available for download on I-tunes.
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