Terry’s songwriting and music opens vistas that draw from her personal life experience and reach out to the universal. Terry shares her steely-eyed enlightenment in her songs, her voice so penetrating it manages to touch the collective wound in all of us and heal it at the same time. “Blue Flower” is a deeply personal and honest album.  It came out of a reflective and challenging time of personal loss, as well as the recent Great Recession.  Terry explains that the inspiration behind making “Blue Flower” was to connect more deeply with herself as well as with others.  To be able to still see beauty in life that takes our breath away while enduring much strife was quite the test—a soul searching and cathartic journey.  “Making this album brought me to an inner sanctuary that was incredibly healing,” she says. Accompanying Terry on this album are NY sidemen, with whom she has recorded and played live for many years, as well as musicians from Nashville and Austin.  Each has a heartfelt and supportive understanding of Terry's music, creating a natural chemistry. Terry provides lead and background vocals, and she plays acoustic and electric guitar.  Guitarist, engineer and co producer Mark McCarron plays multiple instruments on the album, including (lead guitar, dobro, lap steel, baritone, nylon, mandolin, and archtop).  "Blue Flower" also features Tim Lauer (piano, accordion and organ), Suzanne Mueller (cello), Paul Page (bass), Russ Meissner (drums, percussion), Phil Cimino (drums), and Elizabeth Lee (background vocals).   The album’s imagery guides you through magical moments in nature, as in the song “Slumberland.”  All songs are based on true events in Terry's life; her voice and the music bring the listener close to those experiences.  For example, we enjoy along with her a time spent in a small Mexico town on a sun-bathed hill with a view of the sea described in “Loma Bonita."   “(When I Know) I'm Not The Only One” shares a deep realization about how we are all connected, especially—and paradoxically—when we feel completely alone.  The title song, “Blue Flower,” connects the world’s issues concerning suffering and lack of compassion with a part that each of us plays: “Maybe someday we’ll trust ourselves and open our eyes…”   Counteracting the darker soul searching undercurrents, the upbeat mood in other songs, such as “Loma Bonita” and “Good Feeling,” evoke a sense of freedom drawn from travels that have nurtured Terry’s creativity and curiosity.  "New Mexico" describes one of her many journeys with her beloved brother, for whom she had great admiration and who encouraged her at an early age to see the world always with a fresh eye. The youngest of six siblings, Terry was raised on Long Island’s South Fork.  Being independent and spending time alone were the norm in her formative years , through music and art her creativity grew.  Inspired by her parents’ and siblings’ musical abilities, she discovered that music was not only fun, but it also gave her an outlet to express herself and discover her own voice early in life. By the time Terry was ten she had taught herself to play guitar and sing.  She was drawn to the music her older siblings were listening to, but she discovered her own tastes as well.  Her original songwriting began at age fifteen, influenced by folk ,rock, country, blues and R&B.  Terry developed an eclectic style, and these influences still run through her music today.  Early on, the harmonies and storytelling of the Mamas and the Papas, Bobbie Gentry, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Otis Redding, The Beatles, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Parsons, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Cream and many others contributed to her growth as an artist. “Blue Flower” melds Terry’s soaring and expressive voice with distinct and beautifully balanced instrumentation to capture unique experiences and provocative reflections that we rediscover in ourselves as we listen.