Teea Goans ( ) is an American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
singer. She grew up in rural
Lowry City, Missouri
Lowry City is a city in St. Clair County, Missouri, United States. The population was 613 at the 2020 census. Lowry City is the city where the Ozark Mountains meet the Great Plains.
History
Lowry City was platted in 1871 when a railroad was buil ...
, not far from the Kansas border. Goans recorded her first album, ''The Way I Remember It'', in 2010.
Biography
Teea Goans was singing in church by the time she was three years old and when she turned eight she was spotted at a talent contest by the
Truman Lake
The Harry S Truman Reservoir, also known as Truman Lake, is located in the state of Missouri, United States. It is located between Clinton and Warsaw, on the Osage River and extends south to Osceola. The dam is located in Benton County, but th ...
Opry. A year later she became a full-fledged member. She continued to perform there every week until she was 17 and opened for
Grand Ole Opry
The ''Grand Ole Opry'' is a weekly American country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment (a divis ...
acts such as
Bill Anderson,
Little Jimmy Dickens
James Cecil Dickens (December 19, 1920 – January 2, 2015), better known by his stage name Little Jimmy Dickens, was an American country music singer and songwriter famous for his humorous novelty songs, his small size (4'11" 50 cm, and h ...
and
Grandpa Jones
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.
After high school, Goans earned her associate degree at Longview Community College in
Kansas City
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and remained there after graduation. Her primary musical influence during those early years was her maternal grandmother – the late Della Lee Faulkner. A locally popular singer in the 1960s, Faulkner might have pursued a career in Nashville but had to take care of seven children.
"I knew at a very young age that I would move to Nashville someday, "I have a picture that I drew in third grade of me on the Grand Ole Opry stage. I knew that from the time I was a kid that I would be in Nashville. I got my apartment sight unseen. I had no idea what part of town I was in. I just said 'I'm doing this,' and my mom, dad, and grandma helped me move my stuff down here on Halloween night. I moved into my apartment the next morning, and they were gone the next morning," – Teea Goans
In 2002 Goans moved to Nashville. Three months later she was engaged to her high school sweetheart Brandon; they married in 2003. Goans started working a variety of jobs, including selling cell phones. Her husband urged her to concentrate on her music and, heeding his advice to follow a musical career, she started writing songs and singing demos for other writers and played gigs.
Billboard 615 Spotlight by Chuck Dauphin: Teea Goans Marries Tradition & Drive in Debut. Retrieved July 18, 2012 The first thing Goans worked on was the
Ray Price (musician), Ray Price show at the
Ryman Auditorium
Ryman Auditorium (also known as Grand Ole Opry House and Union Gospel Tabernacle) is a 2,362-seat live-performance venue located at 116 Rep. John Lewis Way North, in Nashville, Tennessee. It is best known as the home of the ''Grand Ole Opry'' fr ...
in 2006, this through radio station
WSM, who later asked her to book and run talent for
the Opry warm-up show. Along with these duties, Goans continued to write and demo songs.
At the
Station Inn
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, a Nashville bluegrass club, she sang with
The Time Jumpers
The Time Jumpers is the name of a Western swing band formed in 1998 by a group of Nashville studio musicians who enjoyed jamming together. Country star Vince Gill was a member of the group between 2010 and 2020. The 11–member group started p ...
and met her now producer Terry Choate.
Goans hosted a show called ''Inside The Opry Circle'', which gave a fan's perspective from backstage after the Grand Ole Opry's Saturday night shows. Her first two on-air interviews were with
Garth Brooks
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and
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country music singer, songwriter and musician. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman of the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s and as a solo artist b ...
.
CRS 2011 Interview, Stephanie Langston exclusive Interview with Teea Goans. Retrieved July 18, 2012
From 2010 to 2011 there was a series of firsts for Goans. On a rare snowbound Nashville day in January 2010, she made her Grand Ole Opry debut. At The Ryman Auditorium Jean Shephard, a Hall of Fame Inductee introduced Goans on stage to perform
Bill Anderson (singer), Bill Anderson's song "Walk Out Backwards".
On July 27, 2010, she released her debut album, titled ''The Way I Remember It'', on the independent Crosswind Music Group label. Also in 2010 she appeared on ''Larry's Country Diner'', a TV series on
RFD-TV
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. Her first video, "Letter from God", was nominated for the 26th annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards.
Goans hosted the historical live radio broadcast the
Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), m ...
''
Midnite Jamboree
The ''Midnite Jamboree'' is a radio program that has aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee since May 3, 1947. It was launched by country musician Ernest Tubb. The program was recorded from Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville, Tennessee each Sat ...
'' for the first time on July 23, 2011. On July 15, 2012, Goans released her second studio album, titled ''That's Just Me''.
Musical career
''The Way I Remember It''
In 2010, Goans released ''The Way I Remember It'', her debut album, a collection of 11 cover songs. Joe Spivey, the multi-instrumental performer of
The Time Jumpers
The Time Jumpers is the name of a Western swing band formed in 1998 by a group of Nashville studio musicians who enjoyed jamming together. Country star Vince Gill was a member of the group between 2010 and 2020. The 11–member group started p ...
, is credited as an associate producer. The album's musicians included Spivey with three other Time Jumpers members in the production mix: steel guitarist
Paul Franklin and fiddlers
Aubrey Haynie
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and Kenny Sears.
The songs' composers include many members of the
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
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. From
Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), m ...
came "Walking The Floor Over You",
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American country musician. The critical success of the album ''Shotgun Willie'' (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of ''Red Headed Stranger'' (1975) and '' Stardust'' (197 ...
contributed "I'm Still Not Over You" (recorded by
Ray Price (musician), Ray Price in 1967),
Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
Haggard was born in Oildale, California, toward the end of the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled af ...
and Red Lane "I Didn't Mean To Love You",
Curly Putman
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First name, nickname or stage name
* Crazy Horse (1840–1877), Oglala Sioux war chief nicknamed "Curly"
* Curly (scout), nickname of Ashishishe (c. 1856–1923), Crow Ind ...
and Sonny Thronkmorton's "Made For Loving You" (a top ten hit for Doug Stone) and Joe Allen's "Lying in My Arms" (a minor hot for Rex Allen Jnr). The recording of the Bill Anderson classic "Walk Out Backwards", was in 1961 his second Top 10.
Dan Tyminski
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, the singing voice of
George Clooney
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on the
''Oh Brother Where Art Thou'' soundtrack "
Man of Constant Sorrow
"Man of Constant Sorrow" (also known as "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow") is a traditional American folk song first published by Dick Burnett, a partially blind fiddler from Kentucky. The song was originally titled "Farewell Song" in a songbook ...
", was Goans' vocal partner on the ballad "Made For Loving You".
Paul W. Dennis of Engine 145 country music blog gave the album 4.1/2 out of 5 stars. He concluded: "For fans of traditional country music, The Way I Remember It will be the Nashville album of the year, joining those released by various traditional, Texas-based labels".
'' That's Just Me ''
In 2012, Goans released ''That's Just Me'', her second album. The album contains 13 songs, both covers and original material. It was produced by Terry Choate, a mentor to Goans, the man who elevated
The Time Jumpers
The Time Jumpers is the name of a Western swing band formed in 1998 by a group of Nashville studio musicians who enjoyed jamming together. Country star Vince Gill was a member of the group between 2010 and 2020. The 11–member group started p ...
from a bar band to multiple Grammy nominations. "
Misty Blue
Misty may refer to:
Music
* ''Misty'' (Ray Stevens album), an album by Ray Stevens featuring the above song
* ''Misty'' (Richard "Groove" Holmes album), an album by Richard "Groove" Holmes featuring the above song
* ''Misty'' (Eddie "Lockjaw" ...
" was a hit for Wilma Burgess, Eddy Arnold and Billie Jo Spears. "
Nobody Wins", a
Kris Kristofferson
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song was made famous by
Brenda Lee
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which was a Top 5 hit in 1973. "I’ve Done Enough Dying Today" reached number seven on the ''Billboard'' charts in 1979 for
Larry Gatlin
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. Goans included "
Over the Rainbow", from the 1939 film ''
The Wizard of Oz'', after witnessing the reaction of an audience of World War II veterans to her live performance of the song.
, Teea Goans Press article retrieved July 18, 2012]
Discography
Studio albums
* 2010: ''The Way I Remember It'' (Crosswind)
* 2012: ''That’s Just Me'' (Crosswind)
* 2014: ''Memories to Burn'' (Crosswind)
* 2017: ''Swing, Shuffle, and Sway'' (Crosswind)
* 2021: ''All Over the Map'' (Sparky’s Neighborhood)
References
;Notes
External links
*
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American women country singers
American country singer-songwriters
Living people
People from Lowry City, Missouri
Country musicians from Missouri
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
Singer-songwriters from Missouri