Garrison Starr started out in this business when she was about 15 in Hernando, MS. Starr played clubs in Memphis in high school, started touring in college and got signed to Geffen records in 1996 at 21. since that time, she's been signed to two other record labels and has been touring consistently in all kinds of capacities, sometimes thriving, sometimes failing miserably and wanting to quit this business and crawl in a hole. Starr has been disillusioned, bitter, beat up and to hell and back in her career, but she's never lost faith in music. How it heals her all the time. And what it means to all sorts of people.

To this point, Garrison Star released 6 full-length records and several eps in between. Starr has toured with her idols in amphitheaters and played for 12 people in Charlotte, NC. (i did get a standing ovation in Charlotte! it’s amazing how loud 12 people can be when they’re really excited.)

Starr is an artist. It’s what she does. She loves her job, but hates the music business. Her goal is to work as hard as she can to make the best music she can and to represent herself in the most honest and authentic light possible. If she's doing that, she's happy.

Garrison finds it challenging to keep a foot on the machine pedal but also keep a foot grounded in the soil of inspiration and perpetual hope. She says, “Sometimes it’s not possible. but you keep moving forward because that’s what keeps us going. something magical. that’s what I live for. what everybody lives for, I think. There’s a line in 'a beautiful mind' that I always remember… the wife is at the end of her rope with her husband’s disease, his disillusionment, and she says 'I have to believe extraordinary things are possible'.

Indeed.

I feel grateful to have survived and maintained a career for almost 20 years in this business, and it never ceases to amaze me how many times you can reinvent yourself if you’re willing.”