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Terry Scott Taylor
Terry Scott Taylor | |
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 Taylor in 2007 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Terry Scott Taylor |
| Born | (1950-05-24) May 24, 1950 |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock, folk, blues, experimental |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Labels | Stunt |
| Website | DanielAmos.com |
Terry Scott Taylor (born May 24, 1950) is an American songwriter, record producer, writer and founding member of the bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies (credited as Camarillo Eddy). Taylor is also a member of the roots and alternative music group, Lost Dogs. He is currently based in San Jose, California, U.S.
Taylor is highly regarded for his songwriting skills. These often include allusions to and reworkings of material ranging from Elizabethan poets to modern authors. Foremost among Taylor's influences is William Blake. The Daniel Amos album title Fearful Symmetry was drawn from Blake's poem "The Tyger," and numerous songs across The Alarma! Chronicles series of albums have Blake-inspired references. Some other poets who have influenced Taylor's work are T. S. Eliot and Christina Rossetti. Eliot's poetry inspired the song "Hollow Man" from the Doppelgänger album. "Where Dreams Come True" from Taylor's solo album, A Briefing for the Ascent, draws heavily from Rosetti's poem "Echo".
The inspiration for many Daniel Amos and Taylor songs from the mid-1980s can be found in the book Behold, This Dreamer: Of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-Dreams, Nightmare, Death. This book, compiled by Walter de la Mare and published in 1939, contains poems and essays that appear in Taylor's songwriting. De la Mare is thanked in the liner notes of the final installment of The Alarma! Chronicles, Fearful Symmetry. References to contemporary authors also appear in Taylor's songs. One example is the song "Shape of Air" from the LP Darn Floor-Big Bite. The song explores the mystical musings of Annie Dillard found in her Pulitzer prize-winning book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The album is also heavily inspired by the works of Czesław Miłosz. This is especially evident in songs like "The Unattainable Earth" (which was named after one of Miłosz' books), "Safety Net", "Pictures of the Gone World", "Divine Instant", and "Half Light, Epoch, and Phase". On Taylor's 1998 release, John Wayne, he credits more influences; Flannery O'Connor, Dennis Prager and Frederick Buechner.
During the 1990s and into the new millennium, Taylor's songwriting for the Lost Dogs and on other projects turned away from more esoteric themes. The songs crafted during this phase of Taylor's career marked a shift toward "Americana" and, in some ways, a return to the country music sound of Daniel Amos in the early 1970s. The primary vehicle for this phase of Taylor's songwriting career is the Lost Dogs, with a number of noteworthy solo projects. The Lost Dogs began in 1991 as a one-time collaboration between vocalists and songwriters from four different bands at the behest of their label at that time. Taylor, Gene Eugene (of Adam Again), Derri Daugherty (of The Choir), and Michael Roe (of The 77s) have released several eclectic albums of traditional American music (country, folk, blues, rock) over the last decade.
Contents
1 Career highlights
2 Knowledge & Innocence
3 Influence
4 Solo discography
4.1 Soundtrack albums and compilations
5 Daniel Amos discography
5.1 Videos
6 Swirling Eddies discography
7 Lost Dogs discography
8 Rapsures discography
8.1 Videos
9 References
10 External links
Career highlights
After a number of years performing with local California bands and folk trios like Good Shepherd, Judge Rainbow and the Prophetic Trumpets, The Cardboard Scheme, and The Scarlet Staircase, Taylor formed Jubal's Last Band with Steve Baxter, Kenny Paxton, and Chuck Starnes in 1972. In 1974, the band recorded a demo tape together to shop around to record labels. Later that year, the band lost Paxton and Starnes, and added bassist Marty Dieckmeyer and guitarist Jerry Chamberlain to the line-up.
Sometime in the middle of 1975, Jubal's Last Band (minus Baxter) auditioned for Maranatha! Music and Calvary Chapel in hopes of signing a recording and performance contract. Another band at the meeting, led by Darrell Mansfield, had a similar name: Jubal. The two bands decided to change their names to avoid confusion. Mansfield renamed his band Gentle Faith, and Jubal's Last Band became Daniel Amos. Daniel Amos succeeded in landing a recording and performance contract, and quickly recorded their first song for the label, Taylor's "Ain't Gonna Fight It" featuring ace sessionplayer Michael Omartian (Steely Dan) on Rhodes. A full album, produced by Al Perkins, followed. Taylor and the members of Daniel Amos went on to record numerous albums and change musical styles with nearly every one of them, including the four part Alarma! Chronicles series in the 1980s.
In 1986, Taylor released his first solo album, Knowledge & Innocence, which included songs inspired by the death of his grandfather and the miscarriage of his and his wife's first child. The following year, Taylor released his second solo album, A Briefing for the Ascent, this time inspired by the loss of his grandmother. That year, Taylor also became the production director for Frontline Records and went on to produce many of the label's releases.
In the early 1990s, Taylor teamed up with Adam Again's Gene Eugene, The Choir's Derri Daugherty and The 77s' Mike Roe to form the alt-country/roots band, Lost Dogs. Although it began as a "one time" arrangement, the band soon took on a life of its own and has continued to tour and make albums to this day.
In 1996, he wrote and performed the soundtrack for Doug TenNapel's "The Neverhood" which is now out of print.
In 1997, Taylor became the head of West Coast A&R for the Killen Music Group (KMG Records), a Nashville-based record label. The following year Taylor's third solo album, John Wayne, was released at the Cornerstone Festival. In 1999, a number of artists and fans of Taylor's came together to create When Worlds Collide: A Tribute to Daniel Amos. The album contained nearly 20 songs written by Taylor and performed by other artists, including The 77s, Randy Stonehill, Phil Madeira, Starflyer59, Jimmy Abegg, Larry Norman, The Throes and others. The project was completed and released in the summer of 2000, along with Taylor's fourth solo project, the acoustic Avocado Faultline. Two years later, Taylor returned with an EP entitled, [LITTLE, big.
In 2005, Taylor composed the soundtrack to another TenNapel cartoon series (this time, for the Nickelodeon network) called Catscratch. He adapted the music from the famous children's song "Bingo" for use, with new lyrics by Taylor, as the opening theme song for the Cartoon Network animated television series Camp Lazlo.
Taylor created the fictional character, Dr. Edward Daniel Taylor, who first appeared in a 1990 best of compilation by Frontline Records of music by Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies. The character was an amalgamation of televangelists along the lines of Robert Tilton, Benny Hinn and Oral Roberts and acted as the emcee for segments of his ministry's Prickly Heat Telethon of Love pledge event which appeared as interludes between songs. The character made subsequent appearances including 2003's The Prickly Heat Radio Players, and 2004's limited edition EP, The Perfectly Frank True Story of Christmas and a very brief appearance on the Lost Dogs' 2007 Christmas album, We Like to Have Christmas, on which he can be heard introducing the band as "The Lost Hogs".
Taylor produced a number of albums over the years with singer/songwriter Randy Stonehill, including Equator (which included the Stonehill concert favorite "Shut De Do"), the dreamy Wonderama, and the 2001 Children's album Uncle Stonehill's Hat, which also featured Taylor's daughter Noelle contributing her voice to the story. Throughout his entire career, Taylor has produced albums for countless bands and artists including Randy Stonehill, Riki Michele, Tom Howard, The Altar Boys, Crystal Lewis and Wild Blue Yonder, Jacob's Trouble, Scaterd Few, Deliverance, Mercy River, Starflyer 59's Leave Here a Stranger, Fine China's You Make Me Hate Music, Mortal, Poor Old Lu, Tourniquet, Rich Young Ruler, Derri Daugherty, an assortment of children's records including the MegaMouth series and the Harry Whodunit? series. He also wrote and produced a tribute to surf music entitled Surfonic Water Revival, which featured performances by Phil Keaggy, Smalltown Poets, Chuck Girard, Paul Johnson, Havalina Rail Co., Rick Altizer, Plumb, The Supertones, All Star United, Skillet, Silage, Rebecca St. James, The Insyderz, and others.
Knowledge & Innocence
| Knowledge & Innocence | ||||
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Studio album by Terry Scott Taylor | ||||
| Released | 1986 | |||
| Studio | 3-D Studios, Costa Mesa, CA | |||
| Genre | Contemporary Christian music | |||
| Label | Shadow | |||
| Producer | Terry Taylor and Rob Watson[1] | |||
| Terry Scott Taylor chronology | ||||
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Knowledge & Innocence, released in 1986 as Terry Scott Taylor's first solo album, is an introspective album dedicated to Taylor's grandfather. Lyrically referencing the 1789 poetry collection Songs of Innocence by William Blake, references found also in Taylor's other work such as the Daniel Amos band album Fearful Symmetry.[2] "Song of Innocence", a duet with Randy Stonehill singing, in Taylor's words, a breathy "soulful and sweet" vocal, was released as a single.[3]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Dancing on Light" | 4:53 |
| 2. | "(out of) The Wild Wood" | 5:50 |
| 3. | "Waiting" | 3:07 |
| 4. | "Here He Comes, Second Time" | 3:10 |
| 5. | "Picture of You" | 4:03 |
| 6. | "Song of Innocence" | 3:57 |
| 7. | "Old Time Gospel Camp Meeting Hour" | 3:56 |
| 8. | "Picture of You (reprise)" | 1:39 |
| 9. | "Ever After" | 3:36 |
| 10. | "Home Movies (a. Christmas 1980) (b. Knowledge & Innocence)" | 1:20 |
| 11. | "One More Time" | 3:42 |
| 12. | "Baby's Heartbeat (6 Months)" | 0:14 |
| 13. | "Light Princess" | 4:09 |
| 14. | "Waiting (reprise)" | 1:20 |
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Influence
Numerous[citation needed] people have named Taylor and Daniel Amos as an influence over the years including Jonathan Coulton.[5]
Solo discography
Knowledge & Innocence, 1986 album
A Briefing for the Ascent, 1987 album
John Wayne, 1998 album
Avocado Faultline, 2000 album
LITTLE, big, 2002 ep
City on a Hill: It's Christmas Time, Various Artists, 2002
All Day Sing and Dinner on the Ground, with Michael Roe, 2002 ep
Songs for the Day After Christmas ep
Swine Before Pearl, Vol.1, Standard & Deluxe Editions (2010)
Madness and Blindness and Astonishment of the Heart, Swine Before Pearl Vol 2 (2011)
Soundtrack albums and compilations
Surfonic Water Revival, 2000 tribute to surf music
Making God Smile: A Tribute to Beach Boy Brian Wilson Various Artists, 2002 album
Come As A Child Or Not at All, 2003 Compilation memorial with Theo Obrastoff
Imaginarium: Songs from the Neverhood, 2004 Soundtrack album
Random Acts and Hodgepodge, Expanded Edition, (2008)
An Intimate Evening with Terry Scott Taylor, Tour collection with three new tracks, (2009)
The Return to The Neverhood, 2012 Comic Book and Soundtrack CD
Armikrog, 2015 video game soundtrack
Daniel Amos discography
Daniel Amos, 1976 debut album
Shotgun Angel, 1977 album
Horrendous Disc, 1978, 1981 album
¡Alarma!, 1981 album
Doppelgänger, 1983 album
Vox Humana, 1984 album
Fearful Symmetry, 1986 album
The Revelation, 1986, re-issued 2000
Darn Floor-Big Bite, 1987 album
Live Bootleg '82, 1990
Kalhoun, 1991 album
MotorCycle, 1993 album
BibleLand, 1994 album
Preachers From Outer Space!, 1994 An historic night, recorded live at the Anaheim Convention Center, Easter Weekend 1978
Songs of the Heart, 1995 album
Mr Buechner's Dream, 2001 double CD. CD 1 entitled: Mr. Buechner's Dream, CD 2 entitled: And So It Goes.
Dig Here Said the Angel, 2013 album financed by a Kickstarter campaign.
Videos
- Swirling Eddies – Spittle and Phleghm, 1989 VHS / 2002 DVD
Daniel Amos Live in Anaheim 1985, 2003 DVD
The Making of Mr. Buechner's Dream, 2005 DVD
Instruction Through Film, 2007 DVD
Swirling Eddies discography
Let's Spin!, 1988 album
Outdoor Elvis, 1989 album
Zoom Daddy, 1994 album
The Berry Vest of The Swirling Eddies, Best of album featured a bonus track on the tape version only reversing the usual convention of the time of putting bonus tracks on the CD only, 1995 Compilation
Sacred Cows, 1996 album
The midget, the speck and the molecule, 2007 album
Lost Dogs discography
Scenic Routes, 1992 album
Little Red Riding Hood, 1993 album
The Green Room Serenade, Part One, 1996 album
Gift Horse, 1999 album
Real Men Cry, 2001 album
The Green Room Serenade, Part Tour, 2002 live-album
Making God Smile: A Tribute to Beach Boy Brian Wilson Various Artists, 2002 album
Nazarene Crying Towel, 2003 album
MUTT, 2004 album
Island Dreams, 2005 album (instrumental)
The Lost Cabin and the Mystery Trees, 2006 album
We Like To Have Christmas, 2007 Christmas album
Old Angel, 2010 album
Rapsures discography
Gospel Rap-1985
OT Rap-1987
Loud, Proud and Born Again-1990
Videos
The Lost Dogs... Via Chicago,2003 DVD (plus bonus CD)
Via Chicago (All We Left Unsaid) (2006) DVD (plus bonus CD)
References
^ Artist website page for album
^ Mark Alan Powell Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music (album description and review p.934) "still there have been very few significant projects in the history of contemporary Christian music that have not borne his influence, if not his fingerprints. Taylor is best known as the front man for three of Christian music's most popular and critically acclaimed groups: Daniel Amos, the Lost Dogs, and the Swirling Eddies... Knowledge and Innocence is a deeply introspective project inspired by the death of Taylor's grandfather. Musically the songs are situated somewhere between Rubber Soul (Beatles) and Pet Sounds (Beach Boys), lyrically the closest reference points would be to William Blake. … The Wild Wood... a tune that recalls David Bowie. Song of Innocence is a children's song or at least a song about songs for children"
^ Songfacts – Song of Innocence 1986 (citation of interview with Taylor describing the creation of the song and the album)
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External links
- www.TheLostDogs.com
- www.DanielAmos.com
- Terry Scott Taylor at MySpace.com
Terry Scott Taylor on IMDb- Rapsures
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