Live music- The Terry Edwards Cedar Mountain Christmas Show at Piedmont Folkways

Terry Edwards was born and raised in the Smokey Mountains of Western North Carolina. A child of the sixties dragged kicking and screaming into the new millennium.He began his music career in the 8th grade playing drums in a weekend warrior dance band that played everything from Iron Butterfly to The Tams.

Taking up guitar in the 10th grade, the melting pot of influences began to shape his sound; the Appalachian acoustic music of his parent's generation, the North Carolina soul and beach music bands of the mid '60s, Cat Stevens, CSNY, Van Morrison, Jerry Jeff Walker.Upon graduating from Western Carolina University in 1973, he joined Mike Clark and Sandy Flynn to form the trio Edwards, Clark & Flynn, touring the southeast. Over the next three years the group grew to six members and changed the name to Cullowhee.

Cullowhee produced two albums and several singles, touring throughout the United States playing a brand of music that no record company could wedge into one of their categories.Turns out they were playing Americana music 20 years before it had a name. The band dissolved in 1984 and Edwards has toured as a single since.

Playing clubs, festivals and living rooms, the singer/songwriter draws on 40 plus years of experience to craft story songs of the people and places in his beloved mountains. Americana music created back before they knew what to call it.