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Beverly Threadgill-Robey

I never met an art form I didn’t love and have to at least try, so my background includes, with varying degrees of success, songs, poems, plays, short stories, paintings, and quilts, both traditional and non. My grandmother introduced me to embroidery and sewing when I was about 5, allowing me to use sharp needles and scissors and everything! About the same time, we got a piano, and it got no rest from my grubby little fingers from then until I married and bought one for my own house. I was a full-time church organist from 1963 til 1975, then took a break from that for a few years. Songwriting came to me in some sort of cosmic rush in 1982 and that allowed me to write radio and television jingles for advertising clients in my hometown of Houston, Texas, until 1992, when I moved to Nashville to nurture my songwriting career and promote “Fair Shake,” a song I wrote in 1990, which was selected for inclusion in a television documentary about Special Olympics. That project grew to include 21 major label artists singing my little song in a video that played all over the world! Since then, I’ve had a few cuts and a lot of fun with my musician/songwriter friends. My art addiction has been served the last few years with quilting related projects, and “Guitar Town” includes various quilting techniques, as well as painting.

I am married to Carr Robey, the most supportive husband any artist could have. I have two grown-up children, Jana and Stephen Cole, who turned out to be splendid human beings, despite being raised by an artistic.