Andy Garrett

About

Andy Garrett's interest in music began at age 9 when he won a school competition to conduct the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra. He then took up the guitar at age 10, wrote his first song at age 13, and began teaching professionally at age 16 for the Palmer School of Music. At age 17, he began playing live in various musical ensembles both at school and in his own locally formed bands. At age 22 he then wrote, recorded, and produced his first EP with the band Horizon. They performed at many live shows and went on to back up such acts as Black Oak Arkansas and Rare Earth. Shortly after this, Andy landed a job at a major guitar-string company (Dean Markley/American Winding) as their exclusive string-tester, which landed him in Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine. He also got a degree as an Honor Graduate in Recording Engineering through AIA and started an independent record label called GBMF RECORDS with his brother, Jeff Garrett, in 1994 to release promo tapes and CD-R's of his music throughout the world (See my photo history under "Pics"). In 2004; Andy's first Interactive Instructional Guitar CD-ROM was released through the best guitar site on the internet "Chops From Hell" demonstrating 200 of his favorite licks, musical sequences, and advanced techniques. His music finally reached iTunes, Amazon, etc in 2008 with the release of "Levi's War", and his acoustic flatpicking guitar release called "Live at the Back Porch". The 2015 album release of the band "Horizon" ; along with the 2018 releases of "Futurism", "Another Way", "Mysteries", and many many singles are available now world-wide on all streaming and download services!!!! Enjoy the full-length songs you can preview on this site, and stay tuned for more new music!!!! Andy is currently living in Nashville, Tennessee; look for great new things to come on ReverbNation!!!!

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