Tony Taylor... another Navasota born songwriter- completes the year!

Singer songwriter Tony Taylor is now living in Austin but still has family here in Navasota, where he was born.

Tony has a pleasant singing voice which adapts well to either country or rock, but it is his songwriting which sets him apart from the schools of hopefuls who stream from gig to gig in the Austin music scene. Tony has that knack for composing songs that become classics in your mind the first time you ever hear them. You know, like that first time you ever heard Hotel California, you knew, it was just a matter of time until everybody knew what you did. It's that way with Tony Taylor. It is frustrating that he still has yet to write that break-through song that will establish his name. But meanwhile we get to enjoy reasonable access to him.

I hesitate to pigeon-hole his sound... like many Texas artists, he defies that, as he enjoys artistic freedom and diversity instead of big record deals and fame. His stuff has integrity. And when he sings a song, you are already eager for another. I have seen him perform a couple of times ( he was sick and could not make it to our Blues Capital Revue in August) and he is consistently professional and pleasantly passionate as he delivers his song. (His album plays often at Navasota Blues Alley!)

New Years Eve he played for friends and family at a party at a private residence, where a lucky audience got a private Tony Taylor concert. What a sweet way to finish such a musical year for me and others here in Navasota, Texas. And we wish Tony a real big year, as he swims with bigger and bigger fish.