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Marvin Taylor

Marietta, Georgia
Songwriter
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"Too much candy for a dime"
LEVEL
professional
GENRES
Alternative Country, Blues, Jazz
PUBLISHING COMPANY
Five Feathers Music, I own my own publishing
Contact
Administrative: Marvin Taylor/Five Feathers Music
INSTRUMENTS
banjo / bass / drums / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / steel guitar
INFLUENCES
Buddy Miller, Steve Earle, Mark Knopfler, BB King, Barry Bailey, James McMurtry
DAY JOB
Music Publisher, Studio Guitar player
I AM INTERESTED IN
in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal
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SONG CUTS
Francine Reed (various CDs) Mike Veal Cole/Taylor Laura Simon Heaven Davis Java Monkey Marvin Taylor
SONG PLACEMENTS
The Civil War In Georgia - PBS Special The Cancer Society - promotion film Various Georgia Legislators - campaign songs
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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,

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