album:Defy The World genre:Folk streams:112 creation date:2009-07-23
07/08/10 08:22:45PM @neil-benton:
I love the vocal /guitar mix on this - just right and v professional! Like this a lot. Neil
08/03/09 01:46:37AM @digger-stone:
you've created a very sweet tune here. lovley arrangement and production. i love the vocal you have on this, it really speaks.
thanks for the listen.
07/27/09 12:12:07PM @mel:
Hi Kathleen, love the innocent sound to your voice!! Had a real feel of Country to the start of this song, with a twist of Folk it makes for a really pretty song. A very clear and sweet production, glad I called round. Wishing you well, Melsi
07/27/09 09:41:13AM @mark-reed:
What a nice song, this is well structured and performed. The mix is clean. Very crisp package well done enjoyed this one
07/25/09 03:48:50AM @mike-lynn:
Nice folky piece with a country touch and an appealing voice. Cheers / Mike
06/27/13 02:35:00AM @lyrical-princess:
HI Kathleen, I heard this in the chat this week & just wanted to come by and tell you that I just fell in love with it.. You have a Beautiful voice, and a very catchy melody going on here...Instrumental ,Everything works so well together.. Really great song.. I've enjoyed my listen every time
All The Best,
LP
07/28/09 12:45:47AM @vesa:
Love the bright guitar pulling me in; neat sounds all 'round, cool guitar riff ditty, to accordian, xylophone sound tinkling. The guitar playing, bass & fine percussives give a great groove. A western feel, Australian western, a wordly song, hearing lots of tantilizing sounds enveloping your great vocals; most fine tone & emphasis of lyrics. The mandolin makes me wat to pull mine out, take the dust off...fine bass gives a little more motion, a Mexicali horn section I envision...this music just takes me altered happily, like your other tune I need more spins...steel guitar knocks me out...Most WONDERFUL tune...SUPERBLY refreshing original artistry. Love this.
-Your friend & fan. -Vesa.
07/26/09 02:38:09PM @soundtrapper:
Your voice is rare and beautiful.
Well written song.Addictive sound.
best wishes-jeff
<p>At first blush, Kathleen Taylor’s music suggests the wide-eyed, innocent worldview of a child. But don’t be fooled by all the kittens, crickets, tree frogs and fuzzy caterpillars that populate her full-length debut: she’s an Art Nouveau princess with a pair of brass knuckles. Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, the whimsy of Taylor’s Defy the World is laced with a dark sense of mystery and adult wisdom that deepens with each visit down the proverbial rabbit hole. <br />Born in California, raised in Colorado and Florida and now happily based in Austin, Texas, Taylor wrote and recorded her first CD, Songs for Mothra, in 2007. The collection of acoustic demos was a tribute to her late mother, whose love of songwriters like Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon made an indelible impression on Taylor as a child and still informs her songs to this day. But as revealed on the exquisitely produced and fully-realized Defy the World, Taylor’s music is practically a genre unto itself: playful and literate, simple and ornate, beautiful and ... well, more than a little bizarre. Her lyrics are inspired by the natural wonders of the great outdoors, the fever-dream passion of her favorite Romantic poets and even, she admits, the mystical world of the wee fairy folk. And her musical vision — as vividly captured on the album by producer Michael Hynes — is no less otherworldly. On Defy the World, Taylor’s strong, honest voice and gentle finger-picked guitar and banjo duel (and dance) with tubas, glockenspiel, vibraphone, melodica, pedal steel, musical saw and even chirping crickets. Call it baroque Americana, technicolor folk or even quirk pop; whatever it is, it’s a trippy musical experience you won’t soon forget. Or want to.<br />As a professional musician and songwriter, Taylor’s journey has only just begun. But thanks to the World Wide Web, her music has already circled the globe, netting widespread underground airplay across America, Europe and down under in New Zealand. More than 5,000 fans have already discovered her songs on MySpace, and with Defy the World now on iTunes, she’s poised to reach even more. Meanwhile, as she prepares to launch her performing and touring career in earnest out of the “live music capital of the world,” Taylor continues to write and explore the bountiful wonderland of her singularly whimsical muse. Whatever mystery it turns up next — and where it takes her — remains to be seen, but this much is a given: It’s bound to be interesting.</p>
I love the vocal /guitar mix on this - just right and v professional! Like this a lot. Neil
you've created a very sweet tune here. lovley arrangement and production. i love the vocal you have on this, it really speaks.
thanks for the listen.
Hi Kathleen, love the innocent sound to your voice!! Had a real feel of Country to the start of this song, with a twist of Folk it makes for a really pretty song. A very clear and sweet production, glad I called round. Wishing you well, Melsi
What a nice song, this is well structured and performed. The mix is clean. Very crisp package well done enjoyed this one
Nice folky piece with a country touch and an appealing voice. Cheers / Mike
HI Kathleen, I heard this in the chat this week & just wanted to come by and tell you that I just fell in love with it.. You have a Beautiful voice, and a very catchy melody going on here...Instrumental ,Everything works so well together.. Really great song.. I've enjoyed my listen every time
All The Best,
LP
Love the bright guitar pulling me in; neat sounds all 'round, cool guitar riff ditty, to accordian, xylophone sound tinkling. The guitar playing, bass & fine percussives give a great groove. A western feel, Australian western, a wordly song, hearing lots of tantilizing sounds enveloping your great vocals; most fine tone & emphasis of lyrics. The mandolin makes me wat to pull mine out, take the dust off...fine bass gives a little more motion, a Mexicali horn section I envision...this music just takes me altered happily, like your other tune I need more spins...steel guitar knocks me out...Most WONDERFUL tune...SUPERBLY refreshing original artistry. Love this.
-Your friend & fan. -Vesa.
Your voice is rare and beautiful.
Well written song.Addictive sound.
best wishes-jeff