There’s a good case to make that Chip Taylor is a godfather of Americana music. His ’70 albums – particularly “Chip Taylor’s Last Chance” – foreshadowed the genre to come. Chip has had an astonishing career as a Hall of Fame songwriter (“Wild Thing,” “Angel of the Morning”), as a partner with Carrie Rodriguez and as a solo artist of great integrity. In this conversation on Grammys weekend in New York, Chip tells us about his latest album “Fix Your Words.”
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New Releases: The Coalmen, Chip Taylor
Coming August 19 is Pushed to the Side, the fifth album from the Nashville-based Coalmen.
Review: Chip Taylor’s “Little Prayers Trilogy”
“Wild Thing/You make my heart sing/You make everything groovy” is light years away from Chip Taylor’s compositions on The Little Prayers Trilogy, his new three-CD collection on Train Wreck Records.
Interview: Chip Taylor on “Block Out the Sirens of This Lonely World”
By Ken Paulson Chip Taylor regularly attends the Americana music Festival and it’s always great to catch up with him. He wrote classic pop songs like “Angel of the Morning,” “I Can’t Let Go” and Wild Thing” and then carved out a country career in the early ’70s that was truly a precursor to what we now call Americana. Here’s…