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(Another post for Baby Boomers and music lovers of any generation.)


Songwriters Hall of Famer Chip Taylor Set March 2 Release Date for New CD, Fix Your Words, on his independent Train Wreck Records.

“Whatever Devil Is In Me,” a song from the new album, will be premiered on the American Songwriter magazine website
(www.americansongwriter.com)
on Friday, January 26.

2017 was a momentous year for Chip Taylor, which saw his song “F**k All The Perfect People,” a track off the 2012 album of the same title, become a viral internet smash generating over one million plays on Spotify and introducing Chip’s music to an entire new generation of listeners.

Chip Taylor has been writing and performing for nearly 60 years. Of course, he’s best known for “Wild Thing” (The Troggs, Jimi Hendrix), “Angel of the Morning” (Juice newton) and “Try (Just a Little Bit Harder” (Janis Joplin ). But Aretha Franklin, The Hollies, Willie Nelson, Dusty Springfield are among the many performers to do his songs.

Taylor was one of the pioneers of the pivotal country-rock movement as a recording artist in the 1970s. His 1973 album, Last Chance, remains a beloved cult classic, and has just been packaged as a reissue, titled Last Chance: The Warner Bros Years, a 3-CD set that also includes his 1974 album, Some of Us, and 1975 LP, This Side of the Big River, plus a DVD of Taylor and his band recorded live at Austin’s Armadillo World Headquarters in 1973. After refusing to play by the Nashville establishment rules, Taylor gave up music for full-time professional gambling in 1980.
 


These days, Chip Taylor is making some of the most distinctive acoustic music around. As with Taylor’s The Little Prayers Trilogy (Mojo called it “a masterpiece;” while Uncut said it was “the crowning glory of a storied career” and placed it on its Best of 2015 list), the new album was co-produced by keyboardist Goran Grini. It also features Chip’s longtime compadre, master guitarist John Platania (Van Morrison), as well as drummer Tony Leone and bassist Tony Mercadante. 


Since returning to music in 1996, he has enjoyed elder statesman stature within the Americana, contemporary folk and singer-songwriter scenes as an artist in his own right, as well as in collaboration on albums and in performance with Carrie Rodriguez, John Prine, Kendel Carson and John Platania. In a remarkable and prolific run, Taylor has released nearly an album a year since his return, each rising high on the Americana chart. As England’s The Guardian notes, “Chip Taylor, like Johnny Cash, is well worth rediscovering by a new generation.”


For further information:
http://trainwreckrecords.com/artists/...