Described as “Stevie Nicks on acid” by Zach Sax Nash, Atlanta-born/Nashville-raised and based singer-songwriter Dylan Taylor is making waves and headway, and now charting a course that will bring her to the UK for a 6-date tour this June and July.
Dylan Taylor was born in Atlanta, GA, but raised in Nashville TN from the age of 11, where she not only learned her craft as a songwriter, performer and recording artist, but boldly developed and honed her exciting, genre-crossing, iconoclastic style, turning her lived experience into meaningful music and developing her rebellious outlook, particular panache and punch along the way.
Dylan herself acknowledges that the roots of her songwriting and performance style lie with her father, Karl Braun (now an entertainment attorney in Nashville, but formerly a singer, songwriter and guitarist in Music City) and his best friend Harvey Allen. However, she has also drawn deeply on her own life experiences to inspire her songs. These often explore the worlds of mental illness and addiction, bringing first-hand experience and edge to the table as Dylan was exposed to such issues at an early age, survived her own rock bottom and at 20 found herself in recovery (while in the midst of her first publishing deal, her first tour dates and shortly after releasing her first EP).
Drawing on all of the above, Dylan has unapologetically gone her own way as an artist, writer and performer on the stages and in the studios of Music City and been acknowledged as an original, fierce, rebellious and uncompromising talent with something to say.
In the words of journalist Carol Banks Webber, Dylan Taylor possesses “The heart of a poet and the power chords of an old-soul, New Age Janis Joplin…”
“Atlanta-born Dylan Taylor conjures up her own magical, hardcore blend of ‘genre mut’ voodoo whenever she puts gut-wrenching, heart-felt lyrics to the guitar-raising lyrical.
“This Nashville rebel pushes every boundary, from one outrageous extreme to another, picking up the pieces of addiction and ruin and singing the quiet parts out loud — with a riptide of unflinching, confrontational, hook-tastic emotion. Like the ‘genre-mut’ she is, Taylor embodies the essence of rock, folk, country, and blues.
“There’s not one fake note in her, or her original, stand-alone releases— loaded with gut instincts, laugh-riot vibes, and brute honesty, the kind a true soul sister shares with her BFF.”
No wonder then that Americana artist Gabe Lee dubbed her “The Punk Rock Patty Griffin,” nor that songwriter/producer Trey Bruce (Music Love War) said of Dylan’s work “I’m taken to a place where there are no genres, just music.”
Summer 2022 sees Dylan Taylor playing 6 dates across the UK, for her first international tour, and she can’t wait to get underway!
“After about as many years as one can stand in one place, I’m super-stoked to be venturing out of the United States for my very first UK tour!” says Dylan, “It’s been quite to ride to get it organized and I’ve already met some really cool people I will never forget. I can’t wait to share this batch of songs with the people who end up at my shows and hear what they think. It’s going to be a really fun time!”
Dylan has also been in the studio, finishing an EP with three-time Grammy nominated producer, Ken Coomer (Wilco, Will Hoge) and the first release will be out in the Autumn this year.
If you have a taste for fierce talent that’s fresh out of Nashville and far from cliché, check out Dylan Taylor. See below for tour dates and venues and visit her website for more details and bookings.
Tour Dates
30th June The Camden Club, Camden
1st July The Drawingroom, Chesham
2nd July The Sound Lounge, Sutton
4th July The Betsey Trotwood, Clerkenwell, Central London
5th July The Hyde Tavern, Winchester
6th July Casbah, Milton Keynes
Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of the Blazing Minds. She is also a Cinema reviewer and works with RealD 3D reviewing the latest 3D releases and IMAX, she has also had several articles published in various publications including the first edition of SFW Magazine. In 2015 she became an Award Winning Blogger and also has her website listed as one of the UK’s Top 10 Film Blogs.
