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Julie Homi (I) and Teresa Trull
Gospel, blues and a mean guitar
BY POKEY ANDERSON
You don't find a lot of folks in the music
industry whose biography sheet includes:
"Worked as a dump truck driver to support herself while gaining experience in
music." You won't find a lot of dynamic
gospel and blues singers with green eyes
and red hair. And you won't find many
performers who will sing honestly and
naturally about women who love other
women. But then, nobody has ever accused Teresa Trull of being a run-of-the-
mill.
Trull learned gospel and blues while
growing up in North Carolina. Her music
now blends gospel, soul, traditional jazz
and the blues. She recorded her first album on Olivia Records, The Ways a
Woman Can Be, three years ago, at the
age of 23. Since then, she has gained the
accomplished piano backing of Julie
Homi, and her music has reclaimed even
more of the down-home energy of its
Southern roots.
The women of Olivia Records, the
country's largest all-woman recording
label, didn't "discover" Teresa Trull
humming in a drugstore, but almost.
Some of Trull's friends made a cassette
tape of her singing, and sent it across the
country to Olivia in California. The folks
at Olivia liked the tape and the timing
Pokey Anderson distributes women's music
through Out and Out Productions.
was right, and soon Trull cut her first
album.
Teresa Trull is committed to creating
songs that speak positively about
women's lives, songs that the mass media
somehow "neglect." to transmit. With
her versatile voice and command of
various styles, she sings about her own experiences, including the women in her
life . . . women as friends, family, lovers,
role models. "I don't think anyone will
ever be able to come to a concert of mine
and not know I am a lesbian . . . But I
don't want people just to relate to me
for that reason ... I think my music and
my politics have a lot to say to everyone," she notes.
Houstonians will have their first
opportunity in a year-and-a-half to share
the music of Teresa Trull and Julie Homi
in person, on Saturday, February 23, 8
p.m., at First Unitarian Church, 5210
Fannin. Child care, work exchange, and
interpretation for the deaf will be available. Advance tickets will be available at
B.D. & Daughter, The Bookstore, Wilde
'N' Stein, A Moveable Feast, and My
Sisters (Galveston).
Trull and Homi will be on hand to
meet informally with Houston women
and men at B.D. & Daughter, 520 West-
heimer, on Saturday, February 23,
1:30-3 p.m.
HELEN HOOKE is coming to Houston.
Her solo performance will include songs
on piano, electric guitar, fiddle and varied
electronic instruments.
Hooke combined her classical studies
at the Eastham School of Music with an
incurable addiction to the Beatles and the
electric guitar.In 1972, she teamed with
Pamela Brandt and Ann Bowen to form
The Deadly Nghtshade. Their music was
a fusion of country, soul, bluegrass,
and rock and became well-known for its
infectious and up-lifting spirit of women's
strength and celebration.
Rolling Stone credited Hooke with
adding "power and a raw edge" to the
group's material and said she played the
guitar, piano, and fiddle with a "tough
inventiveness."
With Brandt, Hooke wrote most of the
songs which appeared on their two RCA
albums, The Deadly Nightshade and F.
and W. (Funky and Western). From
1977-1972, the group appeared in clubs
from coast to coast with Lily Tomlin,
Laura Nyro, Peter Frampton and toured
as opening act on Billy Joe's fall 1976
tour.
She'll be appearing March 2 and 3 at
8 p.m. at Fitzgeralds in the Heights.
Helen Hooke in concert.
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