Hassell Teekell

Musician and recording engineer from Shreveport, Louisiana. He began playing piano and keyboards with bands in Louisiana as a teenager in 1975, working with Faust, Otis Wheat Band and South Paw. He graduated from Full Sail Recording Institute in Orlando, Florida, then lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Dallas for several years where he ran a remote recording service. Teekell moved to Nashville in the mid-1980s, where he worked with artists including Reba McIntire, Kix Brooks, Billy Ray Cyrus and Mark Collie. He remained in Nashville for around 28 years then moved back to Shreveport and continued to work as a session musician and music publisher as well as becoming involved in film production. He is married to Suzy Boyd Teekell.