Think spicy meets Country Music. A prolific
songwriter, singer, performer, musician, and yes, even a single mother. Amy
Taylor has rocked the stages with John Conlee, Sammy Kershaw, Chris Young,
Jason Michael Carroll, Bomshel, Confederate Railroad, Andy Griggs, Trent Tomlinson and Florida Georgia Line. She has sang the duet
made famous by Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn "After The Fire Is
Gone" with Daryle Singletary and has been mentioned on the
"BIG SHOW" with John Boy & Billy. She has also been apart of a Vern Gosdin tribute put on by Mrs. Beverly Gosdin. Amy has launched into the
spotlight with a five piece band and a six string in her hand. She has been nominated three years in a row for Georgia female artist of the year and was Georgia country artist of the month in April 2010. She
has recently received a guitar endorsement by CMG guitars. Check out
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There
are two sides to every story, as the old adage goes, and there are certainly
two sides to the story of singer‐songwriter
Amy Taylor’s leap
into country music stardom. Amy is on a mission to bypass the tried‐and‐true
Music Row approach usually taken on country albums and is instead creating a
bold concept album that is essentially two separate albums within one project.
“I
have two different sides of my personality,” she explains. “I have a crazy,
wild, humorous, outspoken personality, and then I have a depth that only opens
up when I am alone or with one other person, and that is captured with this
album. I really couldn’t do
one without the other.”
“I listen to music
depending upon the mood that I’m in.
If I want to chill out, I will listen to certain music and almost make a
playlist for it. If I am partying or hanging-out with friends and want to hear
up‐paced music, I listen to different songs, so I created a two‐sided
album.”
It is no surprise that
Amy Taylor is shattering the usual industry formulas because nothing about her
entertainment career has been normal. Like idols before her, she traveled
the musical highway that spans from her hometown to Nashville’s famed Broadway Street
and Music Row.
Raised in a "blink
and you’ll miss
it" small town in Southeast Georgia on a thousand acre farm Amy Taylor
learned the true values of life. She gives her grandparents most credit for her
raising. "My parents had full-time jobs, so I spent all of my days with my
grandparents. I could say I was a bit of a brat growing up. Given mostly
everything I ever wanted, especially since I was the only girl and the youngest.
Make no mistake though, if I ever misbehaved, rest assured I was corrected! I
learned a lot growing up on a large farm. I never knew what 'boundaries' were,
I had no neighbors, I ran free and life was great! My roots were planted and
yet, I had wings to fly," says Amy.
Not only did her grandparents teach her about life and religion, but they
introduced her to country music and the Grand Ole Opry. Amy Taylor had Music
City aspirations at an early age. Her grandfather was a church deacon and song
leader so she started singing in church as a young child. Asked at age 5 what
she wanted to be when she grew up she replied, “I already AM a country music
singer, but I just don’t get
to be on stage much!”
Backed
by her family and armed with a guitar with an affinity for music by country’s iconic leading legends
including Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Barbara Mandrell, Kitty Wells, Loretta Lynn, Jessi Colter, Tammy
Wynette, Marty Robins and Johnny Cash, Amy enters every recording project
dedicated to achieving perfection.
Everything
about Amy Taylor is multi-dimensional, her penchant for fusing musical genres,
her multi-faceted voice, and her contrasting personas. Is it any wonder then
that the life and career of this out of nowhere up-and-coming artist is equally
colorful and intriguing?