
Artist
Terry Callier
Terry Callier is a guitarist artist from Chicago, American formed in 1962. 20 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Guitarist · Chicago, American · Best guitarist albums
- 20
- Releases
- 1968–2026
- Active years
- 1962
- Formed

Artist
Terry Callier is a guitarist artist from Chicago, American formed in 1962. 20 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Guitarist · Chicago, American · Best guitarist albums

Most popular
What Color Is Love
1998 · 7 tracks

TimePeace
1998

Occasional Rain
1972

Hidden Conversations
2009

Lookin' Out
2004

LifeTime
1999

Fire on Ice
1978

I Just Can't Help Myself
1998

Turn You to Love
1979

Speak Your Peace
2002

The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier
1968

At the Earl of Old Town
2026

Welcome Home (Deluxe Edition)
2019

Total Recall
2014

Welcome Home (Live at the Jazz Cafe, London)
2008
Collected
2007

The Collected
2007

Alive (Live At the Jazz Cafe, London)
2005
Terrence Orlando Callier, known as Terry Callier (May 24, 1945 – October 27, 2012) was an American jazz, soul and folk guitarist and singer-songwriter. Callier was born in the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in the Cabrini–Green housing area. He learned piano, was a childhood friend of Curtis Mayfield, Major Lance and Jerry Butler, and began singing in doo-wop groups in his teens. In 1962 he took an audition at Chess Records, where he recorded his debut single, "Look at Me Now". At the same time as attending college, he then began performing in folk clubs and coffee houses in Chicago, becoming strongly influenced by the music of John Coltrane. He met Samuel Charters of Prestige Records in 1964, and the following year they recorded his debut album. Charters then took the tapes away with him into the Mexican desert, and the album was eventually released in 1968 as The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier. Two of Callier's songs, "Spin, Spin, Spin" and "It's About Time", were recorded by the psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft in 1968, as part of their H. P. Lovecraft II album. H. P. Lovecraft featured fellow Chicago folk club stalwart George Edwards, who would go on to c…