Sonia Tetlow is an American songwriter and musician. She fronts the band Herman Put Down The Gun and plays banjo in the alterna-grass group Roxie Watson. Formerly the singer/ guitarist for
Atlanta
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punk rock trio, STB ''(Sonia Tetlow Band)'', which released two critically acclaimed independent albums, "Spit" and "Swerve." Tetlow played
bass guitar
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St. Mary's Dominican High School
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Dominican is one of the few schools in Louisiana without a ...
and
Tulane University
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where her sister was formerly a law professor, now President of
Loyola University New Orleans
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.
Career
Since then, she's lived in
Atlanta
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. A diverse and talented multi-instrumentalist, she has toured extensively both in support of her own music, solo and with a band, as well as playing bass for New Orleans rockers Cowboy Mouth (mid-2004 through May 12, 2007) and guitar and mandolin for New Orleans singer/songwriter Paul Sanchez. Tetlow has also had the pleasure of performing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Atlanta and Company with Holly Firfir, the Louisiana Jukebox, as well as other news and radio broadcasts.
She has opened for Patti Smith, Shawn Mullins, Speech and Headliner from Arrested Development,
Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. The two met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part o ...
, Peter Holsapple and numerous others. She's toured the east coast, performing at such venues as the Atlanta Civic Center, the Roxy Theater,
CBGB
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's,
Newby's
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History
Newby's was established in 1975 by David "Newby" Harsh.The Bitter End and Cafe Passim to name a few. Sonia also has showcased at the Atlantis Music Conference in Atlanta, GA and
ROCKRGRL
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Music Conference in
Seattle
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.
Besides being a prolific songwriter in her own right, Tetlow has collaborated on songs with Paul Sanchez (Cowboy Mouth, Paul Sanchez Rolling Road Show),
John Thomas Griffith
John Thomas Griffith (born April 3, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter best known as a guitarist and vocalist for the band Cowboy Mouth. Griffith first established himself on the American music scene in the early 1980s as lead singer and gu ...
(Red Rockers, Cowboy Mouth),
Fred LeBlanc
Fred LeBlanc is the lead singer/drummer for the New Orleans-based rock band Cowboy Mouth, and a freelance songwriter, record producer, short story author, and acoustic performer. Known for his "maniacal" performance style, and described as "a s ...
(Cowboy Mouth, Dash Rip Rock) and David Torkanowsky (Astral Project, Irma Thomas), and was awarded four writing credits on Cowboy Mouth's 2006 release, "VooDoo Shoppe." Her lyrics have been called, "uncompromising yet undeniably intimate," (Michael Andrews, Athens Flagpole) and her music runs the gamut from, "rocking with a barely contained intensity," (Hal Horowitz, Atlanta Press) to, "mellow but soulfully intoxicating," (Jeff Clark, Stomp and Stammer).
In 2017, Sonia Tetlow released the critically successful record "Now" which was produced by Atlanta ambient musician B.E.N
Discography
Albums with Herman Put Down The Gun
* ''Herman Put Down The Gun' ' (2008)
Albums with Roxie Watson
* ''True Stories'' (2010)
* ''Of Milestones And Moon Pie'' (2012)
* ''Songs from Hell's Hollow'' (2014)
Albums with Cowboy Mouth
* ''Voodoo Shoppe'' (2006)
Albums with STB
* ''Spit'' (2000)
* ''Swerve'' (2001)
Solo albums
* ''Reclaiming Beauty'' (1998)
* ''A Seed of Sand'' (2006)
* ''One Way Home'' (2012)
* ''Now'' (2017)
Compilation albums
* ''inRetro'' (2011)
* Terminal Pop (Shut Eye, 1998)