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When we featured his song ‘The Ridge‘ back in April I think it’s fair to say we were pretty impressed – and here we are again with his latest single ‘Ballad of a Young Troubadour‘ and again it’s impressive. It’s a song that sees Julian Taylor reflecting on his earliest musical outings at seventeen, and then again with his first band Staggered Crossing. Continue reading “Julian Taylor “Ballad Of A Young Troubadour” – Listen”
‘The Ridge‘ is a poetic description of nothing less than a personal idyll, which Canadian Julian Taylor has described as his “happy place“. It’s a song that is evocative of the open spaces of Canada that follows in the exalted steps of the likes of Gordon Lightfoot. The rural beauty that is painted in detail on ‘The Ridge‘ was in reality his grandparent’s farm in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, which was bounded by the Golden Ears Provincial Park, as well as the Fraser and Alouette Rivers. Continue reading “Julian Taylor “The Ridge” – Listen”