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Instruments
  
Guitar

Years active
  
2002-present

Name
  
Taylor Hollingsworth


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Born
  
May 11, 1980 (age 44) (
1980-05-11
)

Origin
  
Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Occupation(s)
  
Singer-Songwriter, Guitarist

Labels
  
Mass Music, Brash, Skybucket

Role
  
Singer-songwriter · taylorhollingsworth.com

Albums
  
Life With a Slow Ear, Tragic City, Outer South

Music group
  
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

Genres
  
Singer-songwriter, Rock music, Punk rock, Psychobilly

Nominations
  
Independent Music Award for Best Album - College Record Label Release (Album or EP)

Similar People
  
Profiles

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Taylor Hollingsworth is a singer/songwriter and guitarist from Birmingham, Alabama. Hollingsworth is also member of Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band and Dead Fingers, and has toured with Conor Oberst, Maria Taylor,, The Dexateens, Monsieur Jeffrey Evans and his Southern Ace's and Verbena.

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Biography

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Hollingsworth purchased his first guitar at age 14, shortly after his father passed away. After starting and playing in a variety of bands, he began gaining notoriety in 2002 with the now-defunct Taylor and the Puffs. "Taylor and the Puffs" released Skybucket Records' first band recording You Know That Summer's Comin' in 2003.

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In 2005, Hollingsworth released Tragic City, a "gritty sludge-fest of a record," "recalling everyone from Alice Cooper to Dinosaur Jr. ... to T. Rex and early Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers."

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Bad Little Kitty was released on July 29, 2008. The album was later nominated in the 8th Annual Independent Music Awards for "College Record Label Album of the year" in 2009.

Hollingsworth was among several musicians, including Nik Freitas, Jason Boesel, Macey Taylor, and Nate Walcott to travel to Tepoztlán, Mexico in 2007 to contribute to Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst's new solo recordings. Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band released 3 records during their 2007-2010 run, with Taylor contributing several original songs as well as cover of "Central City" from his album, Bad Little Kitty that was rerecorded for the band's 2012 release One of My Kind.

Life with a Slow Ear came out on Oberst's Team Love Records label in November 2009. Paste called the the album, which was recorded with Andy LeMaster, "a scrappy, bare-bones production formed out of a love for honest, straightforward rock ‘n roll."

Dead Fingers, a duo with wife Kate Taylor, released their first album in 2012 on Fat Possum Records, earning them praise as "the first couple of new Alabama music." As part of their best bands in all 50 states project, Paste Magazine named them one of 12 bands you should know from Alabama for tracks like “Ring Around Saturn” and “Hold on To” that "will bring to mind the collaboration between John Prine and Iris Dement."

SDX (or "Sweet Dog Experience") is a two piece consisting of Hollingsworth and Craig "Sweetdog" Pickering. They released Pawn and Gun, recorded by Memphis Punk Rock n’ Roll Legend, Jack Oblivion in 2013 on Team Love Records.

Dead Fingers released their sophomore album "Big Black Dog" in 2014. The video for "Shoom Doom Babba Labba" premiered on USA Today Sept. 3, 2014.

Hollingsworth recently toured with Conor Oberst throughout the U.S. and Europe playing in his backing band with members of The Felice Brothers in support of Oberst's recent release, Saluations.

He is married to Maria Taylor's sister, singer-songwriter Kate Taylor. They had their first child together, a daughter, in 2012. Hollingsworth's photo, shot by Robert M. Knight hangs on the front of a Guitar Center in Jackson, Mississippi and Florida.

Solo

  • Taylor and the Puffs - You Know That Summer's Comin' (2003, Skybucket Records)
  • Taylor Hollingsworth - Tragic City (2006, Brash Music)
  • Taylor Hollingsworth - Bad Little Kitty (2008, Mass Music)
  • Taylor Hollingsworth - Life With A Slow Ear (2008, Team Love Records)
  • Taylor Hollingsworth - Where To Go, How To Get There, And What You Should Know In Advance (2011, Catapult)
  • Bands

  • Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst (2008, Merge Records)
  • Conor Oberst - Gentleman's Pact (2008, Merge Records)
  • Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South (2009, Merge Records)
  • Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - One of My Kind (2012, Merge Records)
  • Dead Fingers - Dead Fingers (2012, Fat Possum Records)
  • Dead Fingers / Nik Freitas - Another Planet / A Million Ways Split 7" (2012, Affairs of the Heart)
  • SDX - Pawn and Gun (2013, Team Love Records)
  • Dead Fingers - Big Black Dog (2014, Communicating Vessels)
  • Other Appearances

  • Preston Lovinggood - Sun Song (2013)
  • GT// - Beats Misplaced (2015, Rough Trade Records)
  • References

    Taylor Hollingsworth Wikipedia


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