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"... it’s easy to see these songs playing well to a coffeehouse or college town pub crowd...
I especially enjoyed track #7, a haunting ballad titled “I Don’t Know Where You Are” and the gorgeous #9 track, “Who Loves Peter Pan” which, was the highlight of the album for me. Both songs put Teel’s voice and evocative lyrics at the front of the experience."
- Pat Loughery
"I enjoyed this album. I think that is because I like the more folksy guitar playing and the lyrics were easy to listen to. I played it as I drove for several hours. It was not intrusive, but rather soothing ...
I was blessed and think many others would enjoy this album. It will speak to you with authenticity, a feature not found in a lot of music these days."
- Segue Perspectives
Discography
Shameless Jane (2008)
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Bio
Teel Montague Cook is a native of Atlanta and presently lives on a small farm just outside the city. This mother of two teenagers is a Georgia Tech grad and runs her own industrial design firm.
Teel has a passion for the inner city and for working with children that have severe emotional and behavior disorders. She finds that work to be a challenging way to incorporate her faith, activism, outspokenness, resources, and artistic abilities. Her other great passion, music, lead her to become more involved in trying to make a difference socially. Her songwriting as well as her design ideas reflect this social sensitivity.
Of herself and her music, Teel says, “My life experience and desire for honest expression direct my creation of melody, instrumentation, and lyric. I aspire to be as sincere and unaffected in my vocals and writing as possible, in order to convey an accessible message. Often I simply sit down with my guitar and play chords and notes that match whatever soul issue I am trying to process. The lyrics generally flow out of that.”
About the new album, Shameless Jane, Teel shares that the project (recorded in East Atlanta Village at Earthshaking Studios) was inspired by a recent discovery of what defines unconditional love and how true loving relationships can be realized. “Although I may appear to be starting late in life recording and performing songs I have been writing since I was a teenager, I believe that I am actually right on time. My hope is that one of my songs connects, touching and moving you, and inspiring you in some way.”
We feel the timing and the connection of Shameless Jane are both divinely in tune.
~ Ambassador Creative Expressions
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