From: owner-hotcakes-digest@smoe.org (hotcakes-digest) To: hotcakes-digest@smoe.org Subject: hotcakes-digest V1 #88 Reply-To: hotcakes@smoe.org Sender: owner-hotcakes-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-hotcakes-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk hotcakes-digest Sunday, December 6 1998 Volume 01 : Number 088 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Plug Of The Week #49 ["Peter Holmstedt" Subject: Plug Of The Week #49 Hi there, Like father, like son, they say - well, about Sally Taylor you could easily say - like mother and father, like daughter. Sally Taylor is the daughter of Carly Simon and James Taylor, and if you haven't yet heard her debut album, you're in for a real treat. The album is: Sally Taylor - Tomboy Bride ( Blue Elbow ) Sally's music has folk and rock influences, but some of the tunes could be better described as jazz. The soulful songs were all written by Sally over the past 2 - 3 years. When she found herself in Colorado, she decided to do some recording. Her intention was only to make a demo, to organize her music and make a collection of her songs for herself. But with the help of Wendy Woo, her co-producer, they ended up with "Tomboy Bride", a patchwork of Sally's colourful life. As a child, surrounded by recording equipment, Taylor says she, "has always been touching things I wasn't supposed to be touching" and recording over her parents tapes. Snippets of her childhhod home tapes appear here and there on her new album. The title "Tomboy Bride" is a reference to a book she found in Telluride: the saga of a free-thinking 19th century frontier woman. The concept informed both the title song, about a wild, pipe-smoking saloon gal, and the album art, which shows Taylor in a slip and cowboy hat. "After the whole album was done, I was at home and Donald Fagen ( of Steely Dan ) called me and said: ' I'd love to produce a track ' . What was I going to say? He's this idol of mine. I said "Thank you, God, I'm going to New York on the next plane" Taylor says. After two days in the studio, he said ' Do you mind if I call in my partner to help me mix this down?' and in comes Walter Becker... I was completely blown away, sitting in the corner trying to breathe". The session with the Steely Dan twins resulted in the song "When We're Together". The album closes with the song "Unsong Dance", recorded in her father's living room in Martha's Vineyard. He plays guitar on the tune. Sally's beautiful silvery alto voice is like sunshine. She sounds indistinctly like both of her parents ( Simon & Taylor ), but she has stumbled onto something entirely new and authentic. If this makes you feel like searching out the album, try writing: sally@sallytaylor.com or info@arielpublicity.com or search out Sally's website at: http://www.sallytaylor.com This is the start of something GREAT! Take care, Peter ------------------------------ End of hotcakes-digest V1 #88 *****************************