A “Taylor-Made” Album
The artist “Taylored” the American standards on his new album to his particular liking. Instead of the grand, orchestral classics like Moon River and The Nearness of You, he focused on his voice and guitar work. The songs he chose for the album were the very standards that sparked his own creative life. “I was emulating these songs when I was first trying to write,” he explained.
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In Taylor’s youth, he spent hours just immersing himself into the music he heard in the house he grew up in, which was in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (although he was born in Boston). Today, he says he longs for that “dreamy time,” before cell phones and social media.