| Brit Taylor | |
| Birth Place: | Hindman, Kentucky |
| Genre: | Country |
| Occupation: | Songwriter |
| Years Active: | 2020–present |
Brit Taylor is a singer-songwriter and owns her own record label, Cut a Shine Records.
Taylor has worked alongside musicians including Mike and the Moonpies, Sturgill Simpson, David R. Ferguson, and her 2020 album, Real Me, opened as the highest-ranking debut album on the AMA/CDX Radio Chart at #37.[1]
Taylor was voted No. 2 on Paramount's CMT 12-Pack Countdown and the second most added album on Americana Radio Association's AMA/CDX Radio Chart.[2]
Taylor was born in Hindman, Kentucky, near the Country Music Highway (Route 23), named after the high number of well known artists who grew up there as well, including Loretta Lynn, Ricky Skaggs, Tom T. Hall, Chris Stapleton, Tyler Childers, and Patty Loveless.
Taylor performed on local Opry stages from a young age. In 2007, she moved to Nashville to study music at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. She took classes with Mark Stephen Jones and scheduled co-writing sessions three days a week. In 2012, she signed a publishing contract. She also shortly joined the country duo Triple Run, got married, and started a mini-farm. In 2017, she got divorced,[3] her band disbanded, she nearly lost her home, and in 2018, she lost her publishing deal.[4]
Shortly after the collapse of her publishing deal, Taylor met Dan Auerbach, who cowrote eight songs in two days with her,[2] five of which, including “Back in the Fire,” “Love Me Back” and “Real Me,” premiered on her album "Real Me."[5]
She restarted her music career funded by launching a cleaning business, singing on Broadway seven nights a week, making and sharing demos, and cold calling record label executives.[4] She created her own record label, Cut A Shine Records. In 2021, she got remarried to Adam Chaffins, who has also cowritten and coproduced several songs in her discography.[3]
In 2023, Taylor signed a deal between Cut A Shine Records and Thirty Tigers and a publishing contract with Reservoir and One Riot.[6]
Taylor's music is influenced by Patty Loveless, Karen Carpenter, Glen Campbell, and disco. Running the gamut from Patsy Cline to Elvis to George Jones.[5] Her music has been described as "a heady mix of Appalachian twang, Patsy Cline’s tears and strong, resilient female empowerment,"[7] "steel guitar-drenched, laid back" sound that "hits traditional country notes",[8] with her "liquid alto singing voice, with bright teardrop accents."[9]
In 2021 and 2022, Taylor performed at AMERICANAFEST in Nashville[10] and in 2022 opened for Alabama, Dwight Yoakam, Kelsey Waldon, Robert Earl Keen and Ian Noe. Starting in 2022, she toured with Blackberry Smoke.
Grammy-winners Sturgill Simpson and David R. Ferguson produced Taylor’s second album, Kentucky Blue, which Wide Open Country and Saving Country Music listed among the Most Anticipated Albums of 2023. PBS featured Wide Open Country as a prerelease song on “The Caverns Sessions” in November 2022. Kentucky Blue reached the Top 15 on iTunes Country Album chart and was the feature cover of Spotify’s The Pulse of Americana playlist when it was first released.[11]
Taylor performed at the Grand Ole Opry on March 22, 2023.[2]
| Title | Details | Songs | Collaborators | Notable | |
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| Kentucky Blue | Release date: February 3, 2023Produced by Sturgill Simpson and David R. Ferguson Distributed by Cut A Shine Records |
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| Reached Top 15 on iTunes Country Album chartFeature cover of Spotify’s The Pulse of Americana playlist | |
| Ain't a Hard Livin | Release date: 2023Produced by Sturgill Simpson and David R. Ferguson Distributed by Cut A Shine Records |
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| Rich Little Girls | Release date: 2022Produced by Sturgill Simpson and David R. Ferguson Distributed by Cut A Shine Records Published by Bluewater Music Services Corp. |
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| Kentucky Blue | Release date: 2022Produced by Sturgill Simpson and David R. Ferguson Distributed by Cut A Shine Records |
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| Real Me (Deluxe) | Release date: 2021Produced by Dave Brainard Distributed by Cut A Shine Records Published by Wixen Music Publishing, Inc. |
| Cowriters:
Dee White - cowriter, coperformer | ||
| Real Me | Release date: 2020Produced by Dave Brainard Distributed by Cut A Shine Records Published by Wixen Music Publishing, Inc. |
| Cowriters:
| Real Me opened as the highest-ranking debut album on the AMA/CDX Radio Chart at #37“Back In The Fire” debuted at #46 on the AMA/CDX Americana Top 50 singles chart. Waking Up Ain’t Easy was used in the Paramount+ series Tulsa King.[12] |
| Title | Details | Collaborators | Notable | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gone as It Gets | Release date: 2022Produced by Andrew Petroff | Cowriters:
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| Lonely on Christmas | Release date: 2022Produced by Adam Chaffins Distributed by Cut A Shine Records | Jason White - cowriterMike and the Moonpies - coperformers | ||
| Cabin in the Woods | Release date: 2021Produced by Sturgill Simpson and David R. Ferguson Distributed by Cut A Shine Records | Jason White - cowriter | ||
| At Least There's No Babies | Release date: 2021Distributed by Cut A Shine Records | Dee White - cowriter, coperformer | ||
| Broken Heart Breaks | Release date: 2020Distributed by Cut A Shine Records Published by Wixen Music Publishing, Inc. | Cowriters:
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| Back in the Fire | Release date: 2020Distributed by Cut A Shine Records Published by Wixen Music Publishing, Inc. | Dan Auerbach - cowriterPat McLaughlin - cowriter | ||
| Wagon | Release date: 2020Distributed by Cut A Shine Records | Marcus Hummon - cowriter | ||
| Waking Up Ain't Easy | Release date: 2020Distributed by Cut A Shine Records | Dave Brainard - cowriter |