Click on Song Titles for Lyrics:
"Something Like This"
"If I Had My Dream"
"Velvet Town"
"Call My Name"
"I'd Be Dancing"
"Midnight Rain"
"Maps Of Venice" **
"Muddy Hudson"
"Firebox Coaltrain"
"Strike The Set"
"Only The Wind"
"Little Collette"
"Simplify" *

Release Date: March 25, 2003
Label: Signature Sounds
Produced by Louise Taylor and Annie Gallup
Pre-production and musical direction: Dean Sharp
Mixed by Dean Sharp and Paul Antonell
Engineered by Paul Antonell
Recorded and Mixed at The Club House Rhinebeck, NY
Mastered at Airshow by David Glaser
Executive Producers: Arden Mason
                                Terry Eagan
                                Froggy Bottom guitars

MUSICIANS:

Ira Coleman: acoustic bass
Kristin DeWitt: harmony vocals
Richard Gates: electric bass
Ken McGloin: classical and electric guitars
Dean Sharp: percussion, drums, vibraphone
Louise Taylor: vocals, 6 & 12 steel string, slide, electric guitars
Eugene Uman: piano, rhodes
Stephanie Winters: cello

All songs written by Louise Taylor with editing and suggestions by: Annie Gallup, Wendy Beckerman, Ray Bonneville, Denice Franke, Jack MacKay, Karen Almquist, Annie Shutan, and Peter Lainson
*Except Simplify: Written by Louise Taylor with French translation by: Mark Olson, Cynthia Holt, Kitty Welch, Ray Bonneville, Molly Melloan, Jim Dissette.
**Maps of Venice: Words edited from a few short stories found in: "Love Affair, A Venetian Journal" by Wright Morris

Dedicated to Clifton Taylor for his 80th year

Louise Taylor takes a sharp left into Velvet Town, her fourth CD for Signature Sounds. Grooving along with barefooted grace, she strolls past urban windows on streets sparkling with local color a tapestry of worldly textures. Velvet Town is illuminated by contrasts.... contemporary and classic, gutsy and tender, mysterious and revealed. Taylor's haunting voice is full of breadth; fearless, sophisticated and soulful, riding above the sparse sonic landscapes she creates with her band. Velvet Town is on a different map than anything Louise has done before, but the path she took to get there is a familiar one. Perhaps Taylor has reinvented her sound, or maybe she has just come into her own, realizing that, as an artist, she can go anywhere she damn well pleases. Her songs don't follow any set rules, but rather present themselves as individuals ... unique unto themselves.