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  Chip Taylor at Towne Crier
Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter, Chip Taylor is a Renaissance man whose determination and dedication have permeated all facets of his life.
Other Chip Taylor songs that are ingrained in American music are "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)"' a performance favorite of Janis Joplin,"I Can't Let Go"' (The Hollies, LindaRonstadt) and " Country Girl, City Man"' (Ike and Tina Turner).
Presented with an autobiographical honesty, it is an intimate look at Taylor's life and relationships as well as a welcome return of an incredible talent.
www.townecrier.com /acts/taylor-ch.htm   (490 words)

  
 Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez
One of the things that makes Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez such a compelling duo is that they employ the extremely musical and versatile guitar and fiddle combination.
Chip's a solid guitar player, nothin' fancy, and Carrie's a very accomplished instrumentalist.
Chip Taylor is a songwriter of rare distinction, with legendary cuts alongside his name.
www.puremusic.com /taylor_rodri1.html   (325 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Chip Taylor
Fiddlesticks: Chip Taylor is hooked on the talent of his new touring and recording partner, Carrie Rodriguez.
Of course, it wasn't new at all, really, but whereas in Taylor's early years "rebel country" or "redneck rock" or whatever you wanted to call it was the art of a few brave souls with the guts to buck Nashville trends, there was now a whole movement of up-and-coming musicians walking in their footsteps.
What Taylor is feeling recently is that he's damn lucky to have discovered fiddler Carrie Rodriguez, with whom he's been recording and touring for the last year.
www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/03.26.03/chip-0313.html   (1316 words)

  
 Texas Music Group :: Antone's Records :: Lonestar Records :: TMG Records
Taylor has also been a spectacularly successful professional gambler, as well as a recording artist and producer of such acts as the young James Taylor (no relation) and pop superstar Neil Diamond.
When Taylor first saw Rodriguez play at the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX in 2001, he was not only wowed by the brilliance he heard in her playing, but also sensed a magical presence.
Her impressive debut as an artist in her own right with Chip Taylor on Let's Leave This Town follows years of serious musical study of the classics as well jazz, country, folk and more as a violinist and fiddler.
www.txmusicgroup.com /artists/c_taylor.html   (1489 words)

  
 Chip Taylor - Music Downloads - Online
Bio: Chip Taylor probably will always be known as the songwriter who wrote "Wild Thing" and "Angel of the Morning." Born John Wesley Voight (the actor Jon Voight is his older brother), Taylor began playing country music while still in high school in Yonkers, NY.
But Taylor's second standard was "Angel of the Morning," a ballad about pre-marital sex that pushed the boundaries of acceptable subject matter in pop music.
Taylor had not given up his ambition to be a recording artist himself.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/568/Chip-Taylor/1008253.html   (487 words)

  
 Live Music Agency: Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez "sound as if they were born to sing together," declares Vintage Guitar magazine.
Taylor happened to hear Rodriguez playing fiddle with alternative country artist Hayseed during the 2001 South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, and, impressed by her talent and presence, he asked her to accompany him on some subsequent Texas shows and then join him on a European tour.
For Rodriguez, whose ambition before meeting Taylor was to hopefully find satisfying work as a musician in a band, her flourishing talents and artistic accomplishments are a delightful surprise.
www.ursasoft.com /bob/chiptaylor.html   (1066 words)

  
 Train Wreck Records - Home of Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez
Chip and Carrie have taken a temporary detour from their duet recordings; each will have their own CD (in Chip's case two) release in the coming months.
Chip and Carrie are trying to reach John Prine at the top of the chart and happen to be opening shows for Mr.
Chip and Carrie are back in Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest Festival and there are new Road Journal notes from the first Texas show of 2005.
www.trainwreckrecords.com   (3238 words)

  
 Chip Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Chip gambled on the horses very successfully, and was so adept at Blackjack that he was banned from casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and elsewhere.
Chip finally returned to music in 1996 with The Living Room Tapes and Hit Man albums, has just released his latest album Black and Blue America, and is embarking on a tour of the UK to coincide with a new album of duets recorded with Carrie Rodriguez, Let's Leave This Town.
Chip first met Carrie at the South by Southwest music festival and was impressed by the 23-year old music graduate's accomplished fiddle playing.
www.cosmicamerican.com /taylor.html   (487 words)

  
 Chip Taylor
Chip was also a producer (James Taylor, Neil Diamond), and recording artist in his own right during the 70's.
However, Chip was impressed with her voice, and coaxed her into trying a duet with him.
Chip Taylor has proven once again that the well is still far from running dry yet in the songwriting department, and his vocals are still as charmingly laid back as ever, though age has made them a bit more comfortably worn around the edges.
www.takecountryback.com /reviews/ctrev0902.htm   (1198 words)

  
 Train Wreck - Artists - Chip Taylor
Born in 1944 and raised in Yonkers, New York, Chip (a.k.a.
Soon after, Chet Atkins heard a few of Chip's country songs and said it was hard to believe that he was born and raised in New York.
Taylor became one of the most feared card counters in the land and was ulimately banned from every casino in Atlantic City.
www.trainwreckrecords.com /chip.html   (896 words)

  
 chip taylor
New Yorker Chip Taylor, born James Wesley Voight belongs to a talented family.
His elder brother became a midnight cowboy for a while but Chip blazed a trail down to Nashville where his personal west would be a somehwat wilder thing.
As a writer Chip's place in rock history is assured but as a performer of his own highly personal country tinged repertoire he remains somewhat enigmatic and I am delighted to bring him to Paris after years of trying to track him down.
www.anythingmatters.com /archives-concerts/chip_taylor.htm   (269 words)

  
 NPR : Chip and Carrie: Rock Roots, Americana Sounds
Rodriguez she says the unlikely artistic partnership with Taylor is based on a genuine affection for each other.
Taylor is a 65-year-old country music singer and songwriter with decades of experience in the music business.
Music fans may not know Taylor's face, but they're likely to know his work: His best known song, perhaps, is "Wild Thing," a song made famous by the Troggs and later Jimi Hendrix.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4762897   (321 words)

  
 Chip Taylor
Chip Taylor is a frequent visitor to the UK, touring here most years to promote his latest album, the most recent of which, 'Unglorious Hallelujah', is not long out on Train Wreck Records.
CHIP TAYLOR: Yonkers is just outside of New York City - it's about 45 minutes outside the city, adjacent to it.
And at some point, just as I was doing my last things for King Records, they changed my name to Chip Taylor, and I think the first record actually we put out was right after that, because we decided not to go ahead.
www.spectropop.com /ChipTaylor/index.htm   (6621 words)

  
 FAME Review: The Living Room Tapes: Chip Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Arrangements are kept to a minimum, usually just acoustic guitar and voice with touches of organ, second guitar and a little fiddle well placed throughout.
Taylor (guitar and organ) is joined by either David Mansfield (guitar and fiddle) or Jon Sholle (guitars) on each of the tracks, with Tony Mercadante adding organ on two songs.
As a singer, Taylor's voice is vaguely reminiscent of Willie Nelson.
www.acousticmusic.com /fame/p00553.htm   (361 words)

  
 The Trouble With Humans - Chip Taylor, Music Downloads - Online
Songwriter Chip Taylor and singer Carrie Rodriguez liked the way their voices sounded together, so they decided to record Let's Leave This Town together in 2002.
Her off the cuff downhearted woman gasp hits the listener deep in the gut on "Dirty Little Texas Story," and reminds one of Lucinda Williams.
Taylor's lyrics are sex-obsessed here as always, but they nonetheless sound right when he and Rodriguez harmonize together, as though the words somehow derive from their life experiences.
musicstore.connect.com /album/568/Chip-Taylor/The-Trouble-With-Humans/500000000000010596896.html   (283 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle: Music: Story Book Children: Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez hit the jackpot
When Chip Taylor wrote "Storybook Children" in the mid-Sixties, there was no way of knowing it would become a catalyst for his career resurgence in the next millennium.
Taylor shifted from gaming tables in casinos to handicapping thoroughbred races, for which he demonstrated an equal affinity: The Long Island Off Track Betting Parlor provided Taylor and partner Ernie Dahlman their own room, complete with televised replay and a personal teller.
Credentials such as his made Taylor a natural for South by Southwest, and in the spring of last year, the songwriter was knocking around the conference with his friend, Van Morrison sideman John Platania.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-12-20/music_feature.html   (1650 words)

  
 Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez
Chip Taylor's been around the block so many times it looks like a dog run.
Already world famous to the world of songwriters for penning "Wild Thing" and "Angel of the Morning" and famous enough in the world of gambling to be banned from Atlantic City fljack tables, one wonders what number life this feels like to him by this time.
The interviewer was speaking with Chip's brother, acclaimed actor Jon Voight (which, naturally, makes him Angelina Jolie's uncle), about Chip's legendary prowess and addiction to the life of the gambler.
www.puremusic.com /chipcarrie.html   (405 words)

  
 Chip Taylor—Unglorious Halleluiah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Chip Taylor has released an extraordinary double cd.
Chip was connected, had to be connected, to come up with this one.
Chip is unknown to many by name, but songs he has previously written are classics.
www.agonist.org /node/33270/print   (241 words)

  
 E-TABS [guitar tabs archive] - Album: Chip Taylor - Black and Blue America
What surprises about both instances is that Chip Taylor seems so in charge, as if he's the one who taught Prine and Williams to do the things they do, as if he was the original "wild thing" and they are simply walking in his footsteps.
Billy Joe Shaver and Chip Taylor are the current "outlaws," and the comparisons to Jennings and Nelson can be extended because Shaver resembles Jennings' rough-edged "back to basics" sound while Taylor resembles Nelson's more whispered approach to simple acoustic country.
Chip Taylor perhaps never trusted himself as a solo performer as much in the past as he does on Black and Blue America, and the results are palpably evident.
www.e-tabs.org /album.php?ID=B00005NNLK   (1115 words)

  
 Chip Taylor - CD Reviews, Articles, Interviews, and News
Chip Taylor has had his fair share of fascinating jobs over the years from golfing with the pros on the greens to earning a ton of green stuff (the treasury-issued paper kind that is) as professional gambler.
In fact, Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez could be among the most unique pairings ever.
Taylor is a Yonkers, N.Y.-born-and-raised songwriter who penned such classics as...
www.countrystandardtime.com /d/artist.asp?xid=1886   (258 words)

  
 Chip Taylor "Last Chance"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
"Chip Taylor's Last Chance" was widely recognized as one of the premier country releases of the early '70s.
Taylor, already successful for hits many his as a songwriter, found his own voice on this release, which shines even more upon its reissue.
It's now clear that "Last Chance" was merely twenty-five years ahead of the curve on the most vital and inspiring musical phenomenon of the late '90s: alternative country, or the Americana movement.
www.gadflyrecords.com /products/237.htm   (136 words)

  
 -= Entretien avec Chip Taylor =-
Artiste talentueux et productif, Chip Taylor est né à Yonkers près de New York en 1944.
Il écrit aussi bien pour son propre répertoire que pour celui d'autres artistes, tout en lançant de nouvelles carrières comme celles de James Taylor (and The Flying Machine) et Evie Sands.
Chip Taylor: - Au début, je ne tournais pas, ou peu.
www.6bears.com /chiptaylorint.html   (1475 words)

  
 CD Baby: CHIP TAYLOR: The Living Room Tapes
Chip's first album of all-new material in nearly 20 years.
Taylor has had a long career in the music business and is undoubtedly one of the industry's most successful songwriters.
In 1996, Chip recorded all-new versions of some of his biggest hits for his "Hit Man" album (Gadfly 220).
cdbaby.com /cd/gadfly223   (124 words)

  
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These two are a terrific combination; Chip's songwriting and backing vocals, and Carrie's lead vocal (unbelievable) and fiddle skills.
Supurb harmonies with sexy vocals from Carrie, great Chip Taylor songs, and Bill Frisell to boot.
The new album from Chip and Carrie was featured on our weekly podcast CD review show.
www.lonestarmusic.com /whitebg/reviews.asp?id=646&alpha=Chip%20Taylor%20%26%20Carrie%20Rodriguez   (153 words)

  
 Chip Taylor News
News about Chip Taylor continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
But with a push from renowned songwriter-guitarist Chip Taylor, the talented fiddle player not only has flourished as a vocalist but found her...
Chip Taylor's song-writing credits include songs like 'Angel of the Morning,' and 'Wild Thing.' He's written songs for stars as diverse as Bonnie...
www.topix.net /who/chip-taylor   (212 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Unglorious Hallelujah: Music: Chip Taylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Many Americana fans know that Chip Taylor's early songwriting spawned huge Top 40 hits ("Wild Thing" and "Angel of the Morning" among them) and that he's the brother of Jon Voight and uncle of Angelina Jolie.
It would be nice to be able to say that long awaited new solo (well almost) Chip album was a return to the masterpieces of the seventies, but unfortunately that's not quite where we are.
If you're a Chip fan you will have to but it as it the best thing he's done in a long time.
www.amazon.com /Unglorious-Hallelujah-Chip-Taylor/dp/B000G5R8Y0   (721 words)

  
 Black and Blue America - Chip Taylor - Song Listings
Chip Taylor has turned into the philosopher of country music, not to mention its social historian.
With each track introduced by a soundbite that seems to act as a springboard for his lyrical musings, Taylor tracks the way America lost its innocence ("Black and Blue America"), relationships ("In...
So, by its nature, this isn't an album for casual listening, although on one level listeners can let it float along, with a sound that ranges from alt-country to gospel.
www.mp3.com /albums/494021/summary.html   (785 words)

  
 ..:: welcome to joe's pub... ::..
Chip Taylor, best known as the writer of "Wild Thing" and "Angel of the Morning," will release his first album in six years on July 18.
Taylor, of course, is the legendary singer/songwriter and composer of “Wild Thing,” ”Angel of the Morning” among others and a prolific recording artist in his own.
Both discs were performed with the same band, including guitarist John Platania, drummer Anton Fig ("Late Show with David Letterman"), and his recording partner of recent years, Carrie Rodriguez, on backing vocals.
www.joespub.com /caltool/index.cfm?fuseaction=detail&performanceID=2173   (239 words)

  
 Chip Taylor - Chip Taylor's Last Chance
Chip Taylor has written dozens of hit songs.
As a recording artist, Taylor has had much less success.
Only one of these songs ("Son Of A Rotten Gambler," covered by Anne Murray) ever became a hit, but these clever ditties all fit Taylor's laconic vocal style beautifully.
www.countrystandardtime.com /d/cdreview.asp?xid=507   (223 words)

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