Make plans to join us in the record store on Wednesday, March 11th at 4:00 PM for an intimate instore performance and album signing by Brit Taylor! We’ll be celebrating the release of Brit’s new album, Land of the Forgotten, due out March 6th via Cut a Shine Records. You can read more about her upcoming record and place your preorder for a copy on our site here.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a country singer with a stronger pedigree than Brit Taylor. Born and raised in Eastern Kentucky right in the middle of a small region that has given us the likes of Loretta Lynn, Keith Whitley, The Judds, and Tyler Childers, Taylor is Appalachian to her bones, and she possesses a deep understanding of the place and its people that well serves her new album, Land of the Forgotten.
“This album feels like driving home to me,” Taylor says. Although she has lived in Nashville for 18 years she says she’s always homesick. One thing she often studies on is the “certain type of resilience” she finds in Appalachian people. “If I didn’t have that in me, I wouldn’t still be chasing this dream. The people and the places are always making their way into my writing.” With her third studio album Taylor says she’s finally achieved the sound she’s been going for since she first arrived in Music City. Taylor has been singing professionally since she was seven years old, when she became a cast member for the Kentucky Opry as one of their “junior pros”. Around the same time she started taking singing lessons and listening to the country classics her grandparents constantly played.
In prepping for the album Taylor did various exercises, including the creation of a playlist for inspiration where she found that many of the songs happened to be by female country singers who were being produced by their husbands, especially ones by Patty Loveless (produced by Emory Gordy) and Lee Ann Womack (produced by Frank Liddell). “It seemed a bit serendipitous. And confirmation that making a record with my husband was the 100% absolute right next move.”
Most of the songs on Land of the Forgotten were written by Taylor and Chaffin along with Grammy-nominated Adam Wright, who has written songs for artists such as Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and others, and who collaborated on eight of the twelve tracks. “The three of us have a similar life view with a healthy dose of cynicism and sense of humor and that definitely comes out in this record.” Jeremy Bussey, Clint Daniels, Jon Decious, and Pat McLaughlin also make contributions.
The result is a collection of tightly-written, hook-driven songs that often center on the working class, which makes it a particularly timely album. “I think it puts a light hearted spin on some of the tougher things about life. Not to make light of difficult times but to remind us two things can exist at one time and not to forget to take a look at the bright side too and to not take it all so seriously,” Taylor says.
We’re pumped to host Brit at Grimey’s and to be able to celebrate her lovely new album with her and all of you. Preorder Land of the Forgotten in the record store or on our site now to lock in you signing wristband and to guarantee your spot in the record store for this fun event. We’ll be seeing you on March 11th!
Brit Taylor’s Land of the Forgotten vinyl LP