Annie Gallup

Vocalist/songwriter Annie Gallup focuses on the modern folk genre. Hailing from Seattle, WA, Gallup trained herself how exactly to play electric guitar as an adolescent, influenced by famous brands Doc Watson, Mississippi John Harm, and Dave Truck Ronk, as she honed her fingerpicking playing design. She soon started penning her very own compositions, equally inspired by music artists (Paul Simon), in addition to writers (Margaret Atwood, Joan Didion), as she started performing locally before crowds in 1988. The very first tracks of Gallup’s to seem on CD had been on such multi-artist compilations as Whirled Information’ Acoustic Sampler and Success Music’s A Success for Children in the first ’90s. From 1994, Gallup released full-length single recordings frequently, including 1994’s Trigger and Influence on her very own label, Flying Locks, before signing using the 1-800 Perfect label in NY, and issuing 1996’s Backbone, 1998’s Courage My Appreciate, 1999’s Steady Steady Yes, and 2001’s Swerve. Gallup travels constantly (occasionally spending as much as ten months on the highway), and it has received many songwriting awards over time, like the Telluride Troubadour Competition (Telluride, CO, 1994), was a finalist on the Columbia Music Celebration (Spokane, WA, 1992), and gained an honorable talk about on the Napa Valley Music Celebration (Napa, CA, 1993).