Teresa Sells
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Guitar
Teresa Sells is a Virginia rhythm guitarist and lead singer who, with husband Tommy, co-founded Big Country Bluegrass in 1987 — the Galax-area traditional band whose nearly four-decade run on the Crooked Road and Rebel Records has made it a defining voice of straight-ahead Mount Airy-style bluegrass.
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- Co-founded Big Country Bluegrass with husband Tommy Sells in the late 1980s (commonly cited as 1987).
- Plays rhythm guitar and sings lead and tenor harmony parts.
- Husband-and-wife vocal blend with Tommy Sells is described as the heart of the Big Country Bluegrass sound.
- Band has played the Virginia/Carolina traditional bluegrass circuit for nearly 40 years.
- Lives near Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, in close proximity to Galax (a traditional bluegrass mecca).
- Big Country Bluegrass has won numerous fiddlers' convention and band honors and has signed with Rebel Records.
- Featured on Blue Ridge National Heritage Area's roster of regional traditional artists.