Chip Taylor tells engaging stories of love and lessons learned from hard drinking and gambling. Best known for writing “Wild Thing” and “Angel of the Morning,” Taylor knows how to draw us into a song, to drive us around its […]
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No one has had a more unlikely career in the music business than Chip Taylor. Like his contemporaries Carole King, Neil Sedaka, and Neil Diamond, he found success early on as a songwriter penning hits for others. His song “Wild […]
Another Treasure from Chip Taylor It’s probably inevitable that like this article, virtually every Chip Taylor review until the end of time will begin by citing his work as a composer of numerous 1960s pop hits, most notably “Angel of […]
Five decades after “Angel of the Morning” became a Top 10 hit for Merrilee Rush, Chip Taylor gets “the same chill” when he sings it as he did when he wrote it in the 1960s. “I never wrote it as […]
Chip Taylor, A Song I Can Live With. In the early days of Chip Taylor’s remarkable career, he penned some of the biggest hits of the 1960s, most notably “Wild Thing” (Jimi Hendrix, the Troggs) and “Angel of the Morning” […]
Anyone who has been to AmericanaFest can tell you, Americana music is not limited to America or even American artists. Americana is not a genre specific to a single nation. Rather, it is a state of being, a mindset, a calling. […]
I’ll Carry For You: Artist pens tribute to Henderson sisters There’s nothing so beautiful as sisterly love. In less than two weeks, Canadian siblings Brooke and Brittany Henderson are set to team up, on the fairways of Rio, as golf […]
Chip Taylor probably remains best known as the composer of such 1960s hits as “Wild Thing,” “I Can’t Let Go,” and “Angel of the Morning.” Nevertheless, he just keeps getting better as the years go by. Returning to music in […]
Chip Taylor remains best known—to the extent that he’s known at all—for writing a string of classic old pop hits, among them “Wild Thing” (the Troggs, Jimi Hendrix), “Angel of the Morning” (Merrilee Rush, Juice Newton) and “I Can’t Let […]
By Ken Paulson It’s remarkable that the composer of one of pop’s most shallow hits now writes and records some of America’s deepest and most reflective songs. “Wild Thing/You make my heart sing/You make everything groovy” is light years away from Chip […]
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