Leonard´s Top Empfehlung !!

A very special evening with ERIC TAYLOR, the Texas legend with international fame singer/songwriter with his own unique "Houston style" fingerpicking guitar playing. If you like Guy Clark, Townes van Zandt, Gamble Rogers, John Prine, then you will love Eric Taylor. A beautiful singer with a mix from Jimmy Webb and James Taylor.

If you like Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, then you will love Eric Taylor . Nanci Griffith called him the William Faulkner of current songwriting .

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From the first minute I met Eric I felt like I had known him my entire life. His concert last year in Berlin Guitars was 3 hours of intense storytelling and musical performance. Like a 30 year road trip across America without getting out of your car. Eric is one of the leading artists of painting pictures in song and an incredibly great guitar player.

Eric Taylor is a sage musician, a lyrical genius and a master of the guitar. If you´re familiar with the intricate Texas singer/ songwriter jigsaw puzzle, you probably already know a lot about Taylor. If you´re not familiar with Taylor by name, you´ve probably heard his songs performed by people such as Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett. He has created a multitude of fans and devotees that are legends themselves in the singer/songwriter realm, artists who have long considered Taylor to be a teacher and a lantern bearer whose time is long overdue.

Lyle Lovett say about Eric :
I’m always the opening act when I’m around Eric. I love his voice, and he has a great narrative quality and sense of detail. He sort of takes you out of your own reality and into the reality of his songs. It’s good writing no matter how you cut it.

Steve Earle says :
He’s the real deal. Eric Taylor was one my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

"To say that Eric Taylor is one of the finest writers of our time, would be an understatement," Nanci Griffith says. "If you miss an opportunity to hear Eric Taylor, you have missed a chance to hear a voice I consider the William Faulkner of songwriting in our current time." Griffith has recorded several of Taylor´s songs, including "Deadwood," "Storms," "Dollar Matinee" and "Ghost in the Music," which they wrote together. Lyle Lovett, who recorded Taylor´s "Memphis Midnight/Memphis Morning," and with whom Taylor co-wrote the immensely popular "Fat Babies," compares Taylor´s narrative voice to that of Bruce Springsteen. Iain Matthews claims, "Once you become a Taylor fanatic, it gives one immense joy and pride to be able to enlighten others to the man´s work."