ERC083 Terry Callier - The New Folk Sound Of Terry Callier (True Mono)

From his beginnings in jazz, folk and soul music onwards, the singer and guitarist Terry Callier, struggled to find the popular recognition his varied talents deserved. Nonetheless he released a string of some of the most enduring and influential albums of the genre. Callier was born in Chicago and raised in the north side of the city.  Inspired by his mother’s enthusiasm for singers such as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, he sang in amateur doo-wop groups in his teens, and found himself as a contemporary of a group of significant local musicians including Curtis Mayfield, Jerry Butler and Ramsey Lewis....