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Annie Gallup
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"I invent songs to explain the world to myself... not to explain myself to the world. As a writer, I don't feel loyal to events as they really happened... I want to tell stories more true than factual. Experiences, myths, daydreams, conversations overheard on the street, revelations, microcosms, irony and humor... Collages of a crazy world full of contradiction and beauty."
Beat Poet Songwriter and "spoke folk" artist Annie Gallup's writing is unabashedly imaginative and richly sensual. She is a teller of short, elaborate tales, song-length works of fiction that sparkle with the complexity and polish of poetry. Tightly packed lyrical strands that crackle with intelligence and spry word play and pulse with insistent rhythm. Hold Annie's work up to that of many contemporary literary lions: she's the real thing.
Annie grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in a family of artists and craftsmen. She studied dance from the age of four all the way through her college years at the University of Michigan. There she majored in visual art: sculpture, metalsmithing, painting and photography. She begged for a guitar for her tenth birthday and fell in love with the country blues and Travis picking. Once she had her hands wrapped around the guitar's neck, it never occurred to her NOT to write songs, a love that stayed with her while she lived various lives: cutting tobacco in Kentucky, crewing on a 90 foot sloop in Puget Sound, skiing and rock climbing in the Cascade Mountains, baking cheesecakes in Seattle. It was there that Bruce Paskow, formerly of the Washington Squares, first heard her perform. He took her under his wing and into the studio, producing three songs for her first cd, Cause and Effect, before his tragic death in 1994. With that cd's release, Annie began touring nationally.

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