TRET FURE
Tret Fure (born March 18, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter, prominent in the women’s music and folk music scene. At 19, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a songwriting and musical career. Within a year she was performing as guitarist and vocalist for Spencer Davis, on tour with him, and wrote the single for his album Mousetrap (1970). While recording her second album, Tret became interested in sound engineering, learning the trade at Heritage Studios in Los Angeles and becoming one of the first women engineers there. In the early 1980s, she 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, recording with and producing some of the best of women’s music including the noted Meg and Cris at Carnegie Hall. She worked as a duo with Cris Williamson throughout the 1990s, releasing 3 CDs together during those years. (More from Wikipedia)
Tret Fure, a multi-talented women’s music artist was the engineer on the Cris Williamson album Lumière, as well as providing musical backing; the two became domestic partners. Fure has more of a hard-rock edge to her music than most of the genre’s artists; she grew up in the Midwest and became a professional musician when she was 16. Tret Fure performed on one of Spencer Davis’s early solo albums, Mousetrap (1972) and also wrote the opening song on the album, “Rainy Season”. Her first solo album, Tret Fure (1973) was produced by Lowell George of Little Feat; and she later toured as the opening act for several major rock bands that included Yes, the J. Geils Band and Poco.
(January 2014)
