Tret Fure

Biography

Tret Fure is an American singer-songwriter, prominent in the women's music and folk music scene. The musical career of Tret Fure has spanned six decades. Fure began her career at the age of 16, singing in coffeehouses and campuses in the Midwest. At 19, she moved to Los Angeles in the hope of obtaining a record deal. Within a year she was performing as guitarist and vocalist for Spencer Davis, touring with him and penning the single for his album "Mousetrap". She went on to record her own album in 1973 on MCA/UNI Records. With the success of that release, she opened for such bands as Yes, Poco, and the J Geils Band. Tret Fure has released 18 albums and CDs over the course of her 56 year career. In addition to being a songwriter, Fure has engineered and produced recordings by a variety of artists, as well as her own work. In the early 1980s, Fure moved to the independent side of the industry discovering the blossoming genre known as Women's Music. She recorded with and produced some women's music including Meg & Cris at Carnegie Hall (1983). She worked as a duo with Cris Williamson throughout the 1990s, producing, engineering and releasing three CDs together. Her solo releases include "Tret Fure" (1973), "Terminal Hold" (1984), "Edges of the Heart" (1986), "Time Turns the Moon" (1990), "Back Home" (2001), "My Shoes" (2003), "Anytime Anywhere" (2005) "True Compass" (2007), "The Horizon" (2010), "A Piece of the Sky" (2013), "Stone by Stone" (2021), and "Lavender Moonshine" (2023) "Rembrandt Afternoons" (2015), and "Roses in November" (2018).

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Credited work

180 releases · 26 albums · active 1972–2026

  • Performance · 339
  • Engineering · 44
  • Other credits · 23
  • Production · 23

Studios: Clover Recorders · Wolf Moon Studios · Blue Dolphin Studios · The Automatt

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