Anyone who writes about Chip Taylor generally begins by noting that the veteran singer-songwriter wrote “Wild Thing” and “Angel Of The Morning”. Less prominent is that Taylor made three superb country albums for Warner Bros. in the early and mid-’70s. […]
Songwriters are as properly wary of cliche as critics, but both know cliches often earn that designation because they’re true. So here goes: Chip Taylor’s new two-CD set — one disc is titled Unglorious Hallelujah, the other Red Red Rose […]
Two years ago, when I first wrote about Chip Taylor’s return to songwriting and performing, I titled the story “When A Man Grows Older,” borrowing the phrase from an obscure Italo Svevo novel about an older man’s unrequited love for […]
Correctly believing 1973’s Last Chance to be the best of his pre-comeback outings, Chip Taylor has taken the matter of reissuing into his own hands. It’s not exactly a lost classic, but it is a simple, charming, and perhaps unintentionally […]
Chip Taylor’s place in history was secured long ago when he wrote the Troggs’ hit “Wild Thing” (if such a wonderfully primeval piece of rock ‘n’ roll sludge can be said to have actually been “written.”) But it has been […]
