| Genres: |
Country & Bluegrass
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Pop / Rock
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| Descriptive "tags": |
americana • country • singer-songwriter • alt-country • folk • blues stay away music • folk-country • brems tagg radio • alt roots • cowhat fav • harmonica • new york • country rock • usa • chip taylor • blues • two first names
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| Decades Active: |
1970s
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1990s
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2000s
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Wikipedia
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Biography
James Wesley Voight, 1 January 1940, Yonkers, New York, USA. The younger brother of actor Jon Voight and briefly a professional golfer, Taylor began his recording career during the late 50s with several rockabilly-styled recordings. He subsequently formed Just Us with songwriting partner Al Gorgoni and produced material for local act the Flying Machine, which featured James Taylor and guitarist Danny Kortchmar. However Taylor became better known in the 60s as the composer of ‘Wild Thing’, a risqué pop song popularized by the Troggs and, later, Jimi Hendrix. Other credits included ‘Anyway That You Want Me’, a follow-up hit for the former band, ‘I Can’t Let Go’ (the Hollies, Linda Ronstadt), ‘I Can Make It With You’ (the Pozo-Seco Singers), ‘Step Out Of Your Mind’ (the American Breed), the controversial ‘Angel Of The Morning’ (Merilee Rush and later Juice Newton), ‘Storybook Children’...
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