Jane Taylor (musician)
| Jane Taylor | |
|---|---|
| Born |
19 July 1972 Nocton Hall, Lincolnshire |
| Genres | Folk, Vocal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, piano |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Associated acts | Robin Davies (Double Bass), Lizz Lipscombe (Violin), Robert Bray (Percussion & Uke), Kate Robey (Chello) |
Jane Taylor (born 19 July 1972) is an English Bristol-based guitarist, pianist, songwriter and vocalist. She won the UK and International Songwriting Competition in 2003 with her song Blowing This Candle Out. Her second album Compass was awarded the Best Album title in the Folk / Singer-Songwriter category at the 2010 Independent Music Awards.
Jane Taylor's debut album hit BBC national radio when Johnnie Walker decided to play the opening track from an album entitled Montpelier that he found on his desk, because he liked the cover (a charcoal sketch of her street which Jane had doodled herself). The response from the listeners was enormous, highly unusual for an 'unknown' and Johnnie Walker played the track over 15 times, despite it not actually being on the play list and invited Jane into the studio to perform a live session on the show.
Her first album Montpelier had been made on a shoe-string, in a barn, with all manufacturing costs financed by pre selling the album to her dedicated fan base (which she had home grown from the city of Bristol). Taylor, producer Bill Lovelady and her band recorded the album in nine days in a freezing October. Once it was made she just posted it to BBC Radio 2 and crossed her fingers.
Because of the response to the airplay she was invited into the BBC to perform a live session on the show. From there she went on to support Jools Holland, Bill Wyman, Seth Lakeman, Paul Buchanan, Andy Fairweather Low and Paulo Nutini. She secured a distribution deal, had "Fall on Me" played on MTV, and toured the UK and Germany, spreading the word and connecting her music to even more people.
Two years later, Taylor released her second album, Compass which was financially backed by two fans of her music whom Taylor now refers to as 'The Angels'. Taylor had never met her benefactors before, but they are now friends indeed. She made the album with Mercury nominated producer Colin Elliot (famous for his work on the Richard Hawley albums) in Sheffield's Yellow Arch Studios.
The album featured the Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band (who performed in the film Brassed Off), a gospel choir made up of some of the finest songwriters and musicians in Bristol and Bath, a rhythm track featuring everything from a rustling bin to the cellists impression of the sound of a dolphin, and classical string arrangements from her resident band Robin Davies, Bethany Porter and Feargus Heatherington.
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