ARTiST: Ben Taylor
TiTLE: Another Run Around The Sun
LABEL: Independiente
GENRE: Rock
TiME: 48:54 min
SiZE: 64,10 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Oct-30-2006
RELEASE DATE: Oct-30-2006
WEBSiTE: www.bentaylormusic.com
Track List:
01. Nothing I Can Do 03:37
02. Always 03:47
03. Someday Soon 04:04
04. One Man Day 05:12
05. Digest 04:40
06. You Must Have Fallen 03:26
07. Think A Man Would Know 04:55
08. I'll Be Fine 05:09
09. Surround Me 05:25
10. Love 05:26
11. Lady Magic 03:13
Release Notes:
Extolling sharp melodies, immaculate acoustic
strings and a barrage of tender lyrics, this 29
year-old singer/songwriter demands your attention
with a dynamic musicality that comes straight from
the heart.
Following a successful European tour with Tracy
Chapman and an impressive debut LP - 2003's
critically acclaimed 'Famous Among The Barns' - Ben
Taylor returns this year with two eagerly
anticipated releases on Independiente - the 'Lady
Magic EP', September 18th, and the album 'Another
Run Around The Sun', October 16th.
The son of James Taylor and Carly Simon, Ben's life
was always centered around music and, as his new
material shows, it continues to be his forte.
"They've both influenced me equally in very
different ways,"he says. "I learned the guitar by
teaching myself how to play my Dad's sound. He's the
one who really, truly taught me about music, but
when I started writing songs my Mom helped me in a
different way."
"I toured a lot with my father, watching him onstage
every night, or wondering where he had gone when he
locked himself in a tiny room for months upon months
until he came out with works of genius,"Ben adds.
"He never played his new music for us until he felt
it was impeccable. My mom was at the opposite end of
the spectrum: She was always playing her rough mixes
because she wanted our input. No matter what time of
the night it was, she'd wake everybody in the house
to hear whatever song it was that she couldn't get
out of her head." Now, Ben is clearly a star in his
own right and, to prove it, he blinds us with 11
melody-laden tracks in the shape of his new CD
'Another Run Around The Sun'.
"This album is a natural progression of who I am and
what I've been through,"he explains. "I wanted to
make a record that I could tour by myself if I had
to - something I could live with night after night.
That's how I feel about 'Another Run Around The
Sun', because it's honest.
On the album, Taylor's signature velvety vocals lend
his lyrics a subtle poignancy on songs that explore
recurring themes of, in his own words, "love, and
loss."s
For years, especially on his earliest projects, Ben
resisted this legacy.
Signed to the Sony Work Group, he began working on
his first album, 'Green Dragon, Name A Fox', in
1997. During those sessions he struck up a
productive relationship with producers Kevin Bacon
and Jonathan Quarmby, whose work on Finley Quaye's
'Maverick a Strike' he'd found especially
impressive. Even so, the results of their
collaboration left him feeling less than satisfied.
"I was trying to make something totally different
from anything a Taylor had recorded before," he
explains. "Ultimately, that meant I was not putting
my best foot forward, and we lost the focus we
should have kept on the songs themselves. Certainly,
I don't blame anyone but myself for that." The next
album, 'Famous Among The Barns' (released on Ben and
Ciancia's own Iris label) was recorded amid the high
Colorado evergreens in a converted barn. Positive
reviews greeted its arrival, with the single 'Day
After Day' earning significant attention
internationally, particularly on Radio 2.
With the new album, his method changed. Despite the
title, it's not about running; it's about stopping,
accepting, and coming up with something that, for
the first time, tells where he stands as well as how
he got there. "There wasn't a whole lot of me in
some of my earlier recordings,"he says. "But this
one is entirely me. It's the most self-accepting
thing I've ever done."
Ben will perform a number of live dates in London
later this year.