****"He was a good guy. He was quiet, but he was a good guy."**** "God had a plan for me." ***** YouTube video "Anthony Burger Interview" posted by hoover4000 - tribute to the late Anthony Burger and to a talented singer/songwriter/musician he helped to inspire by the name of Jeffrey Knight *****5/27/7
MySpace Backgrounds ************************************************************ **** BIO: Teresa AustinWelcome to the peaceful countryside of Kentucky
I am a songwriter, guitar student, mother, nurse, sister, friend and daughter. I am half Chamorro (Micronesian) and half Caucasian (American), and 100% Me. My mother was an islander from Saipan and my father was a cowboy from Wyoming. They met in peacetime after World War II and raised me in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California. My mother was a 21-year-old civilian wounded during WWII, and this is one reason why Paul Weston and JoAnne Ford’s WE ARE THE FUTURE project is so important to me. I know that the effects of war linger from generation to generation and we have the power to design the kind of world we'd like to live in through projects like the one Paul and JoAnne are leading.
I started writing lyrics in November, 2005 after returning from seven weeks of nursing at hospitals in Louisiana during hurricanes Katrina and Rita. I utilized the on-line website www.Songwriter101.com. From there, I arrived to where I am today. I began collaborating with other songwriters on the site at all levels, while learning more and more about the music industry and the creative mechanics of song construction. In a year and a half, seven lyrics have been constructed and set to music:Ocean Serenity - WE ARE THE FUTURE International Song Project
Dale Pulliam of California: Lyrics, Music and Vocals
Steven Beasley of California: Demo Production
Drop Me Off In Dallas
Gary Andrews of Ohio: Lyrics, Music and Vocals
Taking Her Tunes Out of Town Tonight
Jeffrey Knight Georgia: Lyrics, Music and Vocals.
Emma Luna of Tennessee, Lyrics
The Maple Tree
Tommy Liden of Sweden: Lyrics and Music.
Benny Hult of Sweden: Vocals
No Present Like The Time
Charles Kirkland of Texas: Lyrics, Music and Vocals
Littah of Tequila
Glenn Spayth of Tennessee: Lyrics, Music and Vocals
South of Tampa
John Selleck of New Jersey: Lyrics and Music
In June, ’06 I opened my home to James Dean Stenzel , another songwriter from S. Dakota who calls himself, “A Gifted Idiot†on MySpace (which he named for his Asperger’s syndrome). I am co-writing a book with him, based on his true story of living and coping with the syndrome. We met on Songwriter101.
In August, '06 I co-hosted with JD the Red River Songwriter's Jam at our small country home where we utilized our front porch as a stage. We were honored with singer/songwriter/musicians from Spain, Illinois, Iowa, Tennessee and Kentucky. JD provided free recordings by utilizing a vacant country store as a studio. Some pictures of the event can be seen on my slide show and photo album on this page.
I continue to write lyrics and open myself to networking and collaborating nationally and internationally. I can be reached at [email protected] or my MySpace music page.
Every person on earth in some small way can contribute to world peace. This is one of my ways of showing my support.
Special thank you to Paul Weston and JoAnne Ford for the wonderful work you are doing with WE ARE THE FUTURE international song project and for giving Dale and I this opportunity. Also to Dale Pulliam and his associates for all of their hard work, time and talent in producing this demo, Songwriter101 friends for critiqueing the project lyric and my other lyrics, and all who work towards world peace.