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Moreinline|date=January 2012Infobox musical artist| image =| name = Amos Garrett| background = solo_singer| birth_date = Birth date and age|1941|11|26|mf=y| birth_place = Detroit , Michigan , United States|USA | origin = Toronto , Ontario , Canada | instrument = Guitar , singing|vocals , trombone , bass guitar , mandolin , piano | genre = Blues , jazz , Rhythm and blues|R& B , rock and roll , country rock | occupation = Musician , Accompaniment|accompanist , session musician , bandleader , author | years_active = 1963dashpresent| label = Stony Plain Records|Stony Plain , Bearsville Records|Bearsville | associated_acts = Great Speckled Bird (band)|Great Speckled Bird , The Cold Club, Hungry Chuck, The Dirty Shames, Paul Butterfield|Better Days , Maria Muldaur , Doug Sahm , Gene Taylor (musician)|Gene Taylor , Geoff Muldaur , Edmonton Folk Music Festival|Edmonton Folk Music Festival House Band , The 'Eh Team, The Amos Garrett Jazz Trio| website = URL|melmusic.com/amos_garrett/index.htmlAmos Garrett (born November 26, 1941, Detroit, Michigan|Detroit , Michigan , United States of America|USA ) is a Juno Award -winning Canadians of American origin|American-Canadian musician, performer, and author. He holds Multiple citizenship|dual citizenship and was raised in Toronto and Montreal . http://www.stonyplainrecords.com/Web/artist.asp? id=354#bio "Amos Garrett - Biography", Stony Plain Records official website, accessed 30 March 2010 He is best known for his guitar solo on Maria Muldaur|Maria Muldaur's recording " Midnight at the Oasis ".
Over the course of his career, Garrett has recorded with more than 150 artists, ranging from Stevie Wonder , Todd Rundgren and Pearls Before Swine (band)|Pearls Before Swine to Emmylou Harris , Bonnie Raitt and Martin Mull . http://www.melmusic.com/amos_garrett/amosdisc.htm "Amos Garrett Discography", Amos Garrett's official website, accessed 30 March 2010 He can be heard on Anne Murray 's chart-topping rendition of " Snowbird (song)|Snowbird ".
Biography
Early years
Garrett was born in Detroit , Michigan , United States of America|USA on November 26, 1941. When he was five, he was moved to Toronto , Ontario , Canada . He studied piano and trombone through the Royal Conservatory of Music|Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto . http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm? PgNm=TCE& Params=U1ARTU0001320 "Garrett, Amos", Canadian Encyclopedia , accessed 30 March 2010
At twelve, Garrett relocated to Montreal , Province of Quebec|Quebec , Canada, where he began playing guitar at fourteen.Wilson, L., http://www.beatroute.ca/view_article.php? sectionID=24& articleID=2847 "Amos Garrett, BeatRoutes A player of the month", BeatRoute magazine, 2009, Calgary, Alberta, accessed 30 March 2010 There, at the Esquire Club, he would learn while watching performers such as Ben E. King , T-Bone Walker , Fats Domino and B. B. King . http://www.melmusic.com/amos_garrett/pdf/Amos_Garrett_Bio.pdf "Amos Garrett Biography", PDF file, Amos Garrett's official website, accessed 23 March 2010 After an attempt to study English literature at a university in the USA, he chose a career in music and moved back to Toronto in 1962. http://www.myspace.com/amosgarrett About Amos Garrett, Garrett's MySpace page, accessed 09 April 2010
Guitar for hire
Garrett's first professional gig was accompanying Mike Settle at Carnegie Hall in the winter of 1963. Settle was the opening act for comedian Vaughn Meader . Dave Bidini|Bidini, D. , On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock|On A Cold Road , 1998, p. 17
From 1964 to 1967, Garrett played in the Toronto Jug band|jug / String band (American music)|string band, The Dirty Shames, which included Chick Roberts, Jim McCarthy and Carol Robinson. http://www.myspace.com/chickroberts "About Chick Roberts", Chick Roberts' MySpace page, accessed 07 April 2010 It was during this period that Garrett and Roberts took John Hammond, Jr. to see The Band|Levon & The Hawks for the first time.Valenteyn, J., Review of Chick Roberts' Blue Turning Gray , http://www.torontobluessociety.com/0411johnspicks.htm "John's Blues Picks - November 2004", Toronto Blues Society official website, accessed 23 March 2010 The Hawks would later be recommended by Hammond to Bob Dylan ." The_Band#With_Bob_Dylan|The Band ", Wikipedia article, accessed 30 March 2010
In 1968, Garrett began a two-year stint of touring and recording with Canadian duo Ian & Sylvia , which led to becoming a founding member of Great Speckled Bird (band)|Great Speckled Bird . This band is featured in the film Festival Express . They are shown playing the song " C.C. Rider " with members of the Grateful Dead and Delaney Bramlett in 1970. As a special feature on the DVD release of the film, Great Speckled Bird are shown playing the Bob Dylan|Dylan / Richard Manuel|Manuel song, " Tears of Rage (song)|Tears of Rage ".
Garrett moved to Woodstock, New York|Woodstock , New York State|New York in 1970 to play in Maria Muldaur|Maria and Geoff Muldaur 's band. http://www.thecoolgroove.com/gsb.html "Great Speckled Bird", The Cool Groove, accessed 30 March 2010 Based there, he performed and recorded with artists that were part of Albert Grossman 's Bearsville Records|Bearsville stable, such as Bobby Charles , Todd Rundgren and Jesse Winchester , and as a member of Paul Butterfield 's group, Better Days. He was also a member of Hungry Chuck, another Bearsville act, which was formed of ex-Great Speckled Bird members. They released an eponym ous album in 1972. http://www.thecoolgroove.com/chuckbio.html "Hungry Chuck: History", The Cool Groove, accessed 30 March 2010 Garrett also played trombone on two songs for Jerry Garcia 's second solo album, Compliments (Jerry Garcia album)|Compliments , released in 1974.
After living in Boston, Massachusetts|Boston for two years, Garrett moved to San Francisco, California|San Francisco in 1976 to pursue session work. There, he continued as member and bandleader of Maria Muldaur's group until 1978, toured the Rhythm & Blues|R& B circuits of North America , and recorded with more than 150 artists.
Frontman
“I wanted to sing. I loved to sing, but there was no way I could do so being a hired gun for bands.” - Amos Garrett
In 1978, Garrett decided to pursue fronting his own project, left Muldaur's group, and began releasing material through Stony Plain Records , a label based in Edmonton, Alberta|Edmonton , Alberta , Canada. His first solo album was 1980's Go Cat Go , which was followed by Amosbehavin in 1982. He formed his back-up band, '''The 'Eh Team , around this time.
Garrett shared performing and recording duties, and co-wrote two songs, on 1988's The Return of the Formerly Brothers with the late Doug Sahm and pianist Gene Taylor (musician)|Gene Taylor . Queen Ida sat in on accordion. The album was awarded the inaugural, Juno Awards of 1989|1989 , Juno Award for Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Solo|Best Roots & Traditional Album . A follow-up live album, Live In Japan , was recorded in 1990 as Garrett, Sahm and Tayor played clubs and concert halls in Tokyo , Osaka and Kyoto .
In 1989, Garrett relocated to Turner Valley, Alberta|Turner Valley , Alberta. That year also brought the album I Make My Home in My Shoes , which paid tribute to his boyhood days, especially on "Stanley Street", a song written in recollection of the Esquire Club. Garrett began his intermittent role as bandleader and/or member of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival 's Festival House Band in 1990, reprising it from 1994–2000, from 2002–2006, and from 2008–2011. http://www.edmontonfolkfest.org/festival-info/past-performers "Past Performers", Edmonton Folk Festival website, accessed 26 September 2011 http://www.edmontonfolkfest.org/performers-2#g "Performers", Edmonton Folk Festival website, accessed 26 September 2011 With Garrett, the band has backed such acts as Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard Thompson , Solomon Burke , Ruth Brown , Rick Danko , Jay McShann , Johnnie Johnson (musician)|Johnnie Johnson and Rosco Gordon . http://www.melmusic.com/amos_garrett/biograph.htm "Amos Garrett - Biography", Amos Garrett's official website, accessed 01 April 2010 Third Man In , released in 1992, was a collection of cover version|covers and originals. Garrett's covers were written by the likes of Bobby Charles and Percy Mayfield . Off The Floor Live followed in 1996. It was recorded live with the 'Eh Team at the Sidetrack Club in Edmonton.
The Cold Club was a collaboration with Oscar Lopez , David Wilkie, Karl Roth and Ron Casat. They released an eponymous record in 1996. Maria Muldaur, Mike Lent and Teddy Borowiecki guested on the album. http://www.candisc.com/lopez/coldclub.htm "The Cold Club", The Cold Club official website, accessed 30 March 2010 Garrett released ''Amos Garrett's Acoustic Album'' in 2004. It features tracks written by Leadbelly and Hoagy Carmichael , among others. It was nominated for a Juno_Awards_of_2005#Roots_and_Traditional_Album_of_the_Year_-_Solo|2005 Juno Award . This was followed by 2008's release, Get Way Back: A Tribute to Percy Mayfield , which was also nominated for Juno_Awards_of_2009#Blues_Album_of_the_Year|a Juno Award . http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/02/03/2009-juno-award-nominations-announced.aspx "The nominees for the 2009 JUNO Awards are...", National Post, 03 February 2009, accessed 30 March 2010 Garrett was living in High River, Alberta|High River , Alberta in 2008.
On November 6, 2011, Garrett conducted a clinic and then performed as part of the Sleepwalk Guitar Festival in Toronto. http://www.sleepwalkguitar.com/artists/amos.html "Amos Garrett", Sleepwalk Guitar Festival website, accessed 26 September 2011 The festival was presented by Six Shooter Records and curated by Luke Doucet . http://www.sleepwalkguitar.com/main.html Main page, Sleepwalk Guitar Festival, accessed 26 September 2011
Other endevours
Garrett has authored a number of instructional albums, books and videos. http://www.homespuntapes.com/shop/category.aspx? ID=75 Homespun Music Instruction - Amos Garrett, Homespun Music Instruction website, accessed 30 March 2010 http://www.learnrootsmusic.com/html/AGDVD01.html Learn Roots Music - Amos Garrett, Official site of Learn Roots Music, accessed 30 March 2010
Garrett enjoys fishing, and hopes to one day catch an Atlantic Salmon of twenty Pound (mass)|pounds or greater.
http://www.beatroute.ca/view_article.php? sectionID=24& articleID=2847 BeatRoute Magazine article on Amos Garrett, 2009
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