Album Notes

Allyson Taylor has built a reputation as an explosive and dynamic singer/guitarist on stage, and as a world class songwriter known and loved by many of the town's biggest artists. She's been described as a young Bonnie Raitt yet with more leanings to R&B infused pop and bluesy Rock.

Multiple Grammy winning artist Alison Krauss stood on the stage of Nashville's blessed Ryman Auditorium and hailed her to the heavens. Krauss says, "When I went to see her show, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I'd lay awake at night and wake in the morning, staring at the ceiling, wondering what it was like to be her."

Taylor refuses to put labels on her music as the industry would like. She just says, "I think the time for artists that are willing to forgo all the inside 'advice' and represent themselves in a purely original light is here. That is precisely what an artist is. I can't manufacture some type of sound or image someone else would like to see me in. Usually the song dictates all of what it's about for me. If I write a waltz, which I did on this record, I wanna do a waltz. If I feel like doing a James Brown kind of tune, I'll do it. I don't want someone who barely knows me telling me I can't do a waltz and a funk tune on the same record. These changes of pace keep music alive and interesting to me. It's also so much more fun in the live show too. Communicating to the audience on all these different levels keep them involved with what's going on with me and the band."