Terri Hendrix, Grammy Award Winner and HSU Ex, Headlines Texas Songwriters Concert at Paramount
When Terri Hendrix left Hardin-Simmons University in 1988, saying goodbye to a music scholarship and studies in opera, she never dreamed she would be back performing in Abilene as a Grammy Award winning songwriter with 11 major releases to her credit. Hendrix and co-producer, band member, and business partner Lloyd Maines (father of Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines), take the stage at the Paramount Friday, Sep 26, at 7:30 p.m. They headline the Texas Songwriter's Concert, part of the week-long West Texas Book & Music Festival.
Hendrix, who co-wrote "Lil' Jack Slade," a Grammy-winning instrumental performed by the Dixie Chicks, milked goats in exchange for guitar lessons after leaving the Forty Acres, and played the small hill country venues, hauling her sound system around in the back of her beat-up pick-up truck. She released her first album, 1996's Two Dollar Shoes, independently, and inspired a grassroots following that spread like Texas wildflowers with each show. The industry really began to take note when her 2002 release, The Ring, was named one of the 12 best independent releases of the year. Her latest CD, The Spiritual Kind spent several weeks on the Americana Chart, topped the Roots Music Report's Folk chart and landed Hendrix on the cover of the nationally distributed Texas Music magazine. Not surprisingly, it garnered some of the best reviews of her career and found a home on many critics' year-end Top 10 lists.
Although she'll play for a crowd of 75 or 15,000, she was in demand at such premiere events as the Newport Folk Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival and, closer to home, the Texas State Fair at the Cotton Bowl, the Austin City Limits Music Festival and the Kerrville Folk Festival. She's also appeared on the nationally syndicated World Café and Mountain Stage radio shows, and her songs have been included on numerous compilation CDs by Putumayo World Music and influential radio stations like Philadelphia's WXPN, Austin's KGSR and Tucson's KXCI (among others).
No matter how big the gig, she spends at least an hour after every show signing CD's and mixing with fans. Hendrix contributed tracks on the HSU Playlist CD's the past two years. These promotional CD's were sent to 30,000 prospective students.
If you can't make the concert, or just want to hear more of Terri, she'll perform at the Abilene Public Library's Brown Bag program at noon Friday. Fans may bring their own lunches or purchase a sandwich lunch (supplies are limited) for $4.
The Texas Songwriters Concert is free and open to the public. In a year when Hendrix is busy touring in support of her newest offering, The Spiritual Kind, the Paramount concert is a gift that all her fans--past, present, and future, will treasure.
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