Episode 48: Brit Taylor
Nashville singer-songwriter Brit Taylor joins us to talk about her 2023 record Kentucky Blue, which was produced by Sturgill Simpson. Brit talks about what she learned from working with Sturgill, how she got her first guitar by singing “Landslide’ in a music store, how her first song “fell out the sky” when she was a youngster and how songs have continued to appear to her from her muse. Also covered: the martial arts, hillbilly disco, and hollering donkeys.
In a town known for dealing hard knocks, country singer/songwriter Brit Taylor hasn’t flinched. After a decade “of playing by the rules”, she broke out on her own and, in less than a year, released her debut album Real Me in 2020, followed by Real Me Deluxe in 2021. Her new album, produced by Grammy winners Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson, is a happier, more upbeat record, simply reflecting her life today.
Born where the famed Country Music Highway 23 slices through the Kentucky mountains, she grew up with family and music – and idols she loved – Chris Stapleton, Loretta Lynn, Tyler Childers, Dwight Yoakum, Patty Loveless, The Judds and so many more.
Brit is bravely standing out as her own self. With new publishing (Reservoir and One Riot) and distribution (Thirty Tigers) deals in hand, she knows it won’t be an easy path to navigate, but Brit learned that the best GPS is her inner self. She remains true to the timelessness of her sound and the honesty of her lyrics.
Today, the power of her music is that it is refreshingly simple yet surprisingly complex. Always true to herself, Brit Taylor continues to tell stories in song which manage – whether they are dramatic, humorous or heartfelt – to be downright honest. It is who she is. It is who she wants to be.
