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Tret
Fure's recording career
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I couldn't introduce this page much better than this paragraph taken from Tret's own site: "This writer, producer, engineer, vocalist and gifted instrumentalist has navigated her career with integrity and determination. After releasing her premier album on MCA records in 1973, titled Tret Fure, and becoming one of the first women sound engineers in the US, she left the mainstream music industry. Armed with a fierce desire to retain full artistic control, Fure began exploring the independent side of the industry and soon discovered the blossoming genre known as Women’s Music. She has been a major player in that field ever since. Now after 3 acoustic releases on her own label, Tomboy girl Records, she has re-established herself in the folk world." And almost anyone reading this knows about her very public 19-year musical and personal relationship with Women's Music icon Cris Williamson. You'll hear about it all in this show.
Above
left, her 1973 MCA album, and on the right,
On 10/23/06 Tret did a call-in interview to Queer Voices, on KPFT, Houston, 24 minutes, Click to hear it |
Playlist
(airdate
January 22, 2007)
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Above left is the "Mousetrap" album by Spencer Davis (1972), which is essentially a duets album, on which Tret plays and sings, and one of her compositions was used. Tret's three solo albums for Olivia Record's Second Wave label were "Terminal Hold" (1984), "Edges of the Heart" (1986), and "Time Turns the Moon" (1990)
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Candid shots during our interview |
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Cris & Tret CDs from 1993, 1996 and 1999
Tret appears on several compilation albums, but I show the two above as they contain unique recordings by Cris & Tret. Above left is "Treasures Left Behind: Remembering Kate Wolf," a 1998 project with their duet on "Caroline Pines." And the CD above right honored the 25th anniversary of the National Women's Music Festival, and is a live recording including three duets, on "Waterfall," "John Deere," and "Everyone To Me" |
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Houston concert pics, November 4, 2006 |
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Tret's CDs from 2001, 2003 and 2005
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Miscellaneous Shots
Above and below
left, from the inner sleeve of Tret's 1984 LP, "Terminal Hold."
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Remember cassette tapes? And below, the interview was arranged by my Queer Voices co-host Deborah Bell, who founded Diva House Concerts, which enabled Tret to come to Houston to perform. Of course we got pics with Tret. |
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Music
by many of the artists heard on QMH can be found at
Above, Tret's CDs from 2007 and 2010
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