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
4 days ago6 min read