Brit Taylor

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. 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. 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, her band disbanded, she nearly lost her home, and in 2018, she lost her publishing deal. Shortly after the collapse of her publishing deal, Taylor met Dan Auerbach, who cowrote eight songs in two days with her, five of which, including “Back in the Fire,” “Love Me Back” and “Real Me,” premiered on her album "Real Me." 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. 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. In 2023, Taylor signed a deal between Cut A Shine Records and Thirty Tigers and a publishing contract with Reservoir and One Riot. 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. Her music has been described as "a heady mix of Appalachian twang, Patsy Cline’s tears and strong, resilient female empowerment," "steel guitar-drenched, laid back" sound that "hits traditional country notes", with her "liquid alto singing voice, with bright teardrop accents." In 2021 and 2022, Taylor performed at AMERICANAFEST in Nashville 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. Taylor performed at the Grand Ole Opry on March 22, 2023. Leiber, Sarah Jae. "Brit Taylor's Real Me Debuts in the Top 40 Americana Radio". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10. Opry. "Brit Taylor | Opry". www.opry.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10. "Brit Taylor Opens Up About Finding Love Again Following Divorce: 'He's the Best Guy'". Peoplemag. Retrieved 2023-05-10. "Meet Brit Taylor, the Kentucky songwriter endorsed by Sturgill Simpson". The Tennessean. Retrieved 2023-05-10. Despres, Tricia (2020-12-28). "Brit Taylor Keeps Working Her Way Through The Fire". American Songwriter. Retrieved 2023-05-10. "RESERVOIR AND ONE RIOT ANNOUNCE PUBLISHING DEAL WITH COUNTRY SINGER-SONGWRITER BRIT TAYLOR". Reservoir Media. 2022-09-16. Retrieved 2023-05-10. Daykin, James (2023-02-01). "Brit Taylor - 'Kentucky Blue' review". Entertainment Focus. Retrieved 2023-05-10. Newman, Melinda (2020-06-05). "First Country: New Music From Kane Brown, Mickey Guyton & Brantley Gilbert & More". Billboard. Retrieved 2023-05-10. "DISClaimer Single Reviews: Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Kane Brown, Mickey Guyton". MusicRow.com. 2020-06-04. Retrieved 2023-05-10. "Revealing the Final Additions to Our 2022 Lineup". AmericanaMusic.org. 2022-08-19. Retrieved 2023-05-10. The Caverns Sessions | BRIT TAYLOR | Episode 12, retrieved 2023-05-10 Holthouse, Jerry (2023-02-14). "Brit Taylor To Make Her Opry Debut March 22". Nashville.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10. Hough, Q. V. (2022-11-13). "Soundtracks of Television: 'Tulsa King'". Vague Visages. Retrieved 2023-05-10. Official website