Annie Gallup

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Annie Gallup is an American folk singer , guitarist and songwriter .

life and work

Annie Gallup grew up in Ann Arbor , Michigan , where she studied art at the University of Michigan . As a child, she took dance lessons , but soon was music, especially country - blues , her great passion. Gallup began guitar playing and was suitable licks from the albums of Mississippi John Hurt , Doc Watson and Dave Van Ronk on.

It was natural for Gallup to write her own songs, which critics like to refer to as " stream of consciousness - talk - folk " with musical accompaniment: "Gallup sounds like the musical daughter of Joni Mitchell and Lou Reed " was over Gallup wrote repeatedly. This mixture can be clearly heard in Gallup's song "Blue Dress" from their album "Courage My Love" (1998), which also reminds of the Andy Warhol memorabilia album Songs For Drella (1990) by Lou Reed and John Cale .

Annie Gallup has released nine albums and one EP so far . On the Rachel Bissex tribute album Remembering Rachel: Songs Of Rachel Bissex (2005) she can be heard with her song Angel . On the cover of her album Swerve Annie Gallup presents herself with her favorite guitar Gibson Blueshawk , with which she can be seen not only on her homepage , but also in numerous concert photos.

Gallup now lives in Santa Barbara , California , where she and Peter Gallway form the folk music duo Hat Check Girl , which has recorded three albums since 2010.

Discography

Solo albums

  • Cause and Effect (1994)
  • Backbone (1996)
  • Courage My Love (1998)
  • Steady Steady Yes (1999)
  • Swerve (2001)
  • Pearl Street (2005)
  • Selected Songs 1994-2004 (2005) (Promotion CD)
  • Half Of My Crime (2006)
  • Ortho Songs (2006) (EP)
  • Weather (2010)
  • Little Five Points (2012)
  • Ghost (2015)
  • Lucy Remembers Her Father (2017)

In the duo Hat Check Girl

  • Weather (2010)
  • Six Bucks Shy (2011)
  • Road To Red Point (2012)

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Gallup, Annie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century