Garrison Starr

folk · americana · pop rock

Garrison Starr is an American singer-songwriter and record producer, born in 1975 in Hernando, Mississippi and now based in Los Angeles. She went to school in Memphis and spent about eighteen months at the University of Mississippi, where she met the producer Neilson Hubbard in the band This Living Hand and began a working relationship that has continued for decades. She released a first album, Pinwheels, in 1993, and made her major-label debut in 1997 with Eighteen Over Me on Geffen Records. Its single Superhero became her best-known song and was used in ABC's coverage of the 1999 Women's World Cup, and she appeared at Lilith Fair on the strength of the record. Later albums moved through a series of labels, among them Back Porch and Virgin, Vanguard and Verve, and include Airstreams & Satellites in 2004, The Sound of You and Me in 2006, the fan-funded Amateur in 2012, which features a guest appearance by Mary Chapin Carpenter and a co-write with Kevin Devine, What If There Is No Destination in 2017 and Girl I Used to Be in 2021. As a producer and co-writer she made Margaret Cho's 2016 album American Myth, which received a Grammy nomination. She has also worked in collaborative projects, among them Among the Oak & Ash with Josh Joplin, whose debut came out on Verve in 2009, and Plover with Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket. Her songs have been placed in television series including Grey's Anatomy, Nashville, Pretty Little Liars and The Fosters, and she has toured or recorded with Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Bruce Cockburn, Melissa Etheridge and the Indigo Girls. NPR has described her as a Lucinda Williams for Generation X. A new album, The Gospel Truth, is scheduled for release on September 25, 2026.

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