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Courtney Fairchild
Courtney Fairchild was born and raised in Dallas, Texas.

She was taught to sing at a very young age by her mother, but it wasn’t until Courtney was a teenager and grew into her voice that she started writing songs. She picked up the guitar at 14 and has never looked back.

In 1999 Courtney met fellow singer-songwriter Sally Semrad (who’s been profiled on NPR’s All Things Considered) in Dallas and produced her debut EP Simple and Distorted. The release of that record and Sally’s meeting John Would put them both on a path that would see Courtney commuting to, and Sally moving to, California, and lead to two terrific albums (Sally’s 2001 gem Left of Me and Courtney’s 2003 Long Way) for acclaimed Venice indie Stanley Recordings.

When Sally moved to Brooklyn in 2003 Courtney buckled down in her studies in Psychology and Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Dallas, recording sporadically and releasing her live record Right Here that summer.

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2005. Courtney attempts to “work.” She spends a few weeks in an office. She spends a few weeks doing pet-sittings. She is miserable. Her wife suffers. There is much agony. It is decided that this is not the way to go. Stock is taken.

With a marriage in full-swing, with a college degree, with a best-friend cum manager prepped to promote her, with a real sense of necessity and a growing hunger for more than obscurity, and with the sturdy groundwork in place for what was looking like the best record of her career thus far, Courtney re-committed herself to the music game.

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2006. Quit is ready to be heard. Courtney is ready for you to hear it. And here we are.

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