Amos Garrett was born on November 26,1941 and is an American-Canadian blues and blues-rock musician, guitarist, singer, composer, and musical arranger.
15 Facts About Amos Garrett
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Amos Garrett has written instructional books about music and guitar.
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Amos Garrett can be heard on Anne Murray's chart-topping rendition of "Snowbird".
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Amos Garrett was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 26,1941.
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Amos Garrett studied piano and trombone at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto.
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Amos Garrett moved to Woodstock, New York, in 1970 to play in Maria and Geoff Muldaur's band.
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Amos Garrett played trombone on two songs for Jerry Garcia's second solo album, Compliments, released in 1974.
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Amos Garrett played the guitar solo on Maria Muldaur's hit single "Midnight at the Oasis", which reached number 6 on the Billboard chart in June 1974.
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In 1978, Amos Garrett decided to pursue fronting his own project, left Muldaur's group, and began releasing material through Stony Plain Records, a label based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Amos Garrett formed his backup band, the Eh Team, around this time.
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Amos Garrett shared performing and recording duties and co-wrote two songs for the 1988 album The Return of the Formerly Brothers with the late Doug Sahm and the pianist Gene Taylor.
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Amos Garrett began his intermittent role as bandleader and member of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival's Festival House Band in 1990, reprising it from 1994 to 2000, from 2002 to 2006, and from 2008 to 2012.
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Amos Garrett was presented with an Alberta Music Industry Award in 1994.
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On November 6,2011, Amos Garrett conducted a clinic and then performed as part of the Sleepwalk Guitar Festival in Toronto.
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Amos Garrett enjoys fishing and hopes to one day catch an Atlantic Salmon of twenty pounds or more.