Music Loses Popular Cross-Genre Songwriter
Chip Taylor was one of music's most-admired songwriters Americana has lost a singer-songwriter many in the music industry referred to as “a national treasure.” And for good reason. For Chip Taylor, who died in New York on March 23, had the distinction of being one of the finest multiple-genre songwriters in modern music. Taylor, who was 86, started his 60-odd years in music by writing a number of pop hits which would become classics, among them “Wild Thing” (Troggs/Jimi
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Mary Gauthier on The Crucifixion and ICE
Mary Gauthier has joined the list of artists using song to protest against U.S. immigration enforcement. The crucifixion of Christ has inspired Americana stars Mary Gauthier and Eliza Gilkyson to join the protest-in-music against the much-debated immigration crackdown across the U.S. The pair have written “Soldier of Fortune” which questions the morality of gun-for-hire agents and Gauthier has now released it as a single. It has, of course, been motivated by sad events in M
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