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Timeline
5 events▣ Album 2◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1
1950s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: Trouble in Mind
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2020s
Biography
English biography105 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1326358744
Biography
Terry Ray Garland (June 3, 1953 – September 19, 2021), who was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, was an American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer. The Allmusic journalist Niles J. Frantz wrote that Garland was "a country blues interpreter who plays a National steel guitar, often with a slide, in the style of Bukka White and Fred McDowell."
Biography
His first two albums were released by BMG/First Warning.
The harmonica player Mark Wenner, of the Nighthawks contributed to Garland's records.
His next release was Whistling in the Dark, issued in 2006.
Terry Garland died of congestive heart failure, at the age of 68, in September 2021.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 3 | 77.1th |
| Studio albums | 3 | 80.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (3 release groups · 3 studio albums)
Albums · 3
2001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 42:37
1Kokomo3:542Wang Dang Doodle4:073Upside Your Head3:454Hospital Bill Blues2:535Forty Four4:126Trouble in Mind3:087Ain't Long Afore Day4:258Aberdeen4:249Trouble on the Way4:3310Bad Luck and Trouble3:0111Hard Time Killing Floor4:152001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 49:05
1Dude Boy Boogie2:462Dallas2:503Poor Boy Blues4:104Courtesy of Love4:325Champagne & Reefer4:336Blues Fell This Morning3:527Going Home4:498Running Back to You5:039Can't Be Satisfied5:0410My Baby Left Town3:5111Out Where the Blue Begins3:2312Dust My Broom4:12— · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 45:09
1Get Bitchy2:542Memo to Jo4:193The Hard Luck Blues3:464Too Much Blood4:165When You See Their Eyes4:586Jim Beam and the Bible5:097Stumbling in the Dark2:598Soapbox Saturday Night3:339Without You5:2010Vacation Due4:4411Walk With Me (aka Minnie's Song)3:11
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Terry Garland head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 3 | 77.1th |
| Studio albums | 3 | 80.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/088d445e-c270-4ee6-9f50-964a6e40425cdiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/088d445e-c270-4ee6-9f50-964a6e40425ccore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7704427genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7704427seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Garlandbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Garland
Why this artist is in the database
- List of blues musicians — rank #39
| 1953 | | Tennessee | Country blues |
Tier rule: genre canon: blues
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Wikidata: Q7704427 · MusicBrainz: 088d445e-c270-4ee6-9f50-964a6e40425c
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