Lewis Taylor
 Put me on the bandwagon.
It appears "USA Today" wrote about this. And XM even hyped it.
But who reads "USA Today"? Especially if they’re not on the road?
And there are 100+ channels on XM.
So I found out about this from Nick Miller, at Jam.
I trust Nick, he BELIEVES!
First he asked me if I was AWARE of Lewis Taylor. Unlike you pricks e-mailing me tracks without asking, putting me on your mailing lists even though I don’t know you, haven’t even heard of you. If you think this is the road to success, WELCOME TO THE NINETIES! Seth Godin had it right, we do live in an era of permission marketing… Ask first.
Telling Nick I was clueless, he sent me a track.
And I’ve got to tell you, I thought "Hide Your Heart Away" was INTERESTING for the first minute, but then it CHANGED! And then, suddenly, I was on a Brian Wilson ride set in the U.K. decades ago and I had to hear this record AGAIN!
Now this wouldn’t have been Top Ten in America even when it was recorded. But this guy would have had fans a la Todd Rundgren, dyed-in-the-wool, wearing his t-shirts. Really, play it all the way through.
My second favorite cut on Lewis Taylor’s MySpace page is the last, "Lovelight".
What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where the best new music is OLD?
Check this out… When you hit 2:50 in "Hide Your Heart Away", and Lewis Taylor goes nasal, you’ll be right there in MALIBU!
____________________________________
Meanwhile, the fascinating e-mail keeps coming in.
You can’t hear the original demo of "Give It Away" by Jamey Johnson, but on the Web you can hear Sarah Buxton’s take on her co-write "Stupid Boy":
