Vance Gilbert burst onto the singer/songwriter scene in the early 1990s when the buzz started spreading in the folk clubs of Boston about an ex-jazz singer who was knocking 'em dead at open mikes. The word spread about the Philadelphia native all the way to New York, and soon Shawn Colvin invited Gilbert to be special guest on her Fat City tour. From there, he started taking audiences across the country by storm, with the Boston Globe declaring, "He is that rare performer for whom people lean forward in their seats as eagerly between songs as they do during them."

His latest album, Unfamiliar Moon, is his most mature and realized recording to date. This is his most anticipated album, as it is jam-packed with songs that fall into "that" category of songwriting-the zenith for any writer-songs that elicit the response, "You wrote that?" "Ten Thousand Skies," the opening cut, has a Roy Orbison-looking-for-Sam Cooke feel, followed by the gentle heartache in "You Can Go Now," the hurt and hope of the rocker, "Leaving Avon," and the soul-wrenching title cut, "Unfamiliar Moon." The recording is like great performances captured on disc.

For the last decade, Terri Hendrix has toured constantly, packing listening rooms and theaters coast-to-coast and also playing before thousands at premier events such as the Newport Folk Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival and, closer to home, the Texas State Fair at the Cotton Bowl, the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and the Kerrville Folk Festival. She's also appeared on the nationally syndicated World Café and Mountain Stage radio shows, and her songs have been included on numerous compilation CDs by Putumayo World Music and influential radio stations like Philadelphia's WXPN, Austin's KGSR and Tucson's KXCI, among others.

One of the most strikingly original singer/songwriters working today, her eclectic musical breadth has covered every genre from folk to country, from pop to blues, from Celtic to Tex-Mex, from jazz to Western swing. She even scored a satellite radio hit in the punk scream-along, "Nerves," from the popular kids' album, and co-wrote a Grammy-winning country instrumental, "Lil' Jack Slade," on the Dixie Chicks' multi-platinum 2003 album, Home. Factor in her charming stage presence, top-notch musicianship (guitar, mandolin and harmonica), lyrics as smart and thought-provoking as they are heartfelt and personal, and a classically trained but twang-kissed voice that's as potent as an intimate whisper as it is when she pushes it to a full-on scat, and it's no wonder why Texas Music Magazine writes: "Simply put, Terri Hendrix creates the kind of music that makes you feel good, conceived and delivered with utter sincerity."