From her earliest days as a performer, Theresa Blue realized the importance of the capturing every emotion of the human condition. Although like many of her generation she was a child of rock n’ roll, Blue, not unlike the dusty delta blues pioneers of the past, approached one gig to the next with a passion. From Florida to Rhode Island she has performed and as a result, from these adventures collected the raw material that has formed her performance and writing style.

Born in Virginia, Theresa lived there until she was sixteen and then moved to Palm Beach, Florida. “I have been a musician since I can remember,” she states. “I always loved to sing and I picked up the guitar when I was 12.”  With her powerful voice, Theresa’s personality filled every room she played.  Working in the Palm Beach area singing and playing guitar five nights a week, she admits that her strongest musical education came from these nights of performing and invokes many colorful memories. Like the time she was hosting a songwriter night at the Bamboo Room in Lakeworth, Florida. “Dion lived close by and would come in a lot to sit and listen and occasionally get up and perform,” she recalls with a smile. “One night he got up and started sing ‘Runaround Sue’ and started to get heckled by the crowd screaming ‘no covers, this is a songwriter night’. They didn’t realize who he was.”

Over the years, Theresa has played many blues festivals in South Florida sharing the stage with Bonnie Raitt, Debbie Davis and Maria Muldaur.  In July she performed on the main stage along with harmonica player Nel Nichols at the Cape Fear Blues Festival. “Nel is a sweetheart and I know she had her hands full trying to play with me as I never play a song the same way twice,” she says with a laugh. “I write all the time and trying to remember how the song goes get tougher all the time. She adds so much and I enjoy playing with her and hope to do more with her.”

But there is more to Theresa than performance.  She is a prolific writer and recording artist with Tom Cat Records. In 2005, they released Roll the Dice, from which The Big City Blues Magazine selected a song for their compilation CD. Her song “Mista Live D” was on the Indie film track Southern Redemption and she has five songs on the 2006 Tom Cat release CD The Spirits of the Lumbee. And there is more on the horizon. “I am very excited about our new CD Investors Choice. It is also a compilation CD done for Tom Cat Records. There are five of my songs on this CD as well,” she says.

Even though misfortune is seemingly always present in the blues, Theresa Blue’s life is very positive these days. “I am able to write by detaching and observing life’s troubles and challenges from a different space,” she admits. It gives her music a different feel, but no less authentic. Her songs still yearn to be free from life’s misfortune and they transfer beautifully onto a musical canvas that is felt in the heart, as well as heard by the ears.