Ted Garber Music Reviews

On Track and in Focus

by Lauren LaRocca, News-Post Staff, Frederick News Post

Ted Garber has been a full-time singer-songwriter for the past 13 years, but really his career -- and life -- became focused a lot more recently.
In 2005, he released his first solo EP, "Ted Garber," and later that year, he threw together a CD with a full band, the Working Class Heroes. Then he went on tour across the country by himself.

"It was a shot in the dark," he said. "It was idiotic. ... I was drinking a lot in those days. Everything was done in a manic pursuit of success."

He made $2,000 that year, tops, he said, as a full-time musician.

A few years later, he had a revelation during a trip to Key West.

"I quit drinking in October 2007 ... after resentments, hasty recordings and an otherwise lonely and depressing life that was getting more and more reckless. ... Ever since then, life has been just great."

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