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When I recently had the opportunity to interview Tret Fure, writer, vocalist, instrumentalist, and producer and then to attend her Macon, Georgia, concert, I had two pleasurable evenings in a row. On both occasions I was struck by her generous spirit. After a long drive to arrive in Atlanta that day, Fure gave me over two hours of her time before she went to a CD signing at Charis Books. At the bookstore her appearance became a mini concert where she entertained questions and requests from those in attendance, though she must have been tired by then. If she was, it never showed as she shared her music, her ideas, herself with fans. The following night on the stage of the beautifully restored Douglass Theatre at a concert produced by Lynne Shelley, Fure gave audience goers the show they'd come to see, over two hours of original compositions delivered with passion and personality. While the audience was not large, it was intimate and enthusiastic as Fure did a wide selection of love-related songs in honor of Valentine's Day. Some die-hard Fure fans, better known as Tret Heads, had even found their way to the center of Georgia from as far away as South Dakota.
For Fure, it was a forty-year journey that brought her to the Douglass Theatre. When she was five, she started playing the piano, but when she received her first guitar at age eleven, a hand-me-down from an older
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