Dulcie
Taylor and Friends Soar Like Wind Over Stone on New CD, Coming September
25 from Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings
Key
CD Release Shows Announced
ATASCADERO, CA – Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings proudly announces a
September 25 release date for Wind Over Stone, the new CD from
Central California Coast-based singer/songwriter Dulcie Taylor and Friends.
Produced
by George Nauful and Tyson Leonard, and mixed by Keith Olsen (legendary producer/engineer for Fleetwood
Mac, Ozzie Osbourne, Pat Benatar, Rick Springfield, Carlos Santana, etc.), Wind
Over Stone was recorded at Colorado Studios in Atascadero, California.
Dulcie
Taylor will celebrate the new album with several CD release shows, including
September 13 in Arroyo Grande, Cal., as part of their “Concerts in the Park”
series from 2:00 – 5:00 PM. Taylor will not only headline that show, but will
also emcee the entire event concert lineup. Other key dates include a concert at Boo Boo Records in San Luis Obispo on
September 26, at 5:00 PM; October 10 at the Jade Festival in Big Sur;
and October 28 at the Wine & Song Concert Series in South Pasadena.
Dulcie
Taylor (lead vocals, acoustic guitar, dulcimer, percussion) is joined
throughout the new album by many of the same “friends” who backed her
critically-acclaimed last effort, Only Worn One Time released in
2014. They include George Nauful (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals and lead vocal on “Amy” and “I Wanna Ride”);
Tony Recupido acoustic guitar, backing vocals and lead vocal on “Reasons Why”
and “Joyful News”); Tim Pierce and Nina Gerber (guitars); Tyson Leonard
(mandolin and violin); Aaron Porter (keyboards and accordion); Bob Gross and
Randy Tico (bass); and Tom Lackner, Tracy Morgan and Scott Breadman (drums,
percussion).
Together, Dulcie Taylor and Friends weave a magical spell
throughout the 14 tracks on Wind Over Stone, whether
on the 13 originals (most either written or co-written by Taylor) or the lone
standout cover song, a gorgeous reading of the Supremes/Motown classic, “My
World Is Empty Without You.”
The tone of the new disc is set by the album’s lead-off track,
“Not Here, Not Today,” inspired by some of her American heroes. “I’ve always
thought about what motivated the American people who revolted against English
rule,” Taylor says. “These people came to America because they wanted new ways
of living. Thinking about people still holding to their beliefs when their feet
were freezing and they didn’t have any shoes, makes me realize this country was
founded by people who wanted freedom, period.
“And Rosa Parks – my goodness. This soft-spoken woman of
conviction who, in 1955, refused a bus driver’s order to give up her seat in
the “colored section” to a white passenger. When the driver told her he would
have her arrested, she quietly said, ‘You may do so.’ No profanity, just quiet,
steely conviction. Freedom, period.
“Lastly, Flight 93 – this is what gave me the idea for the whole
song. Thinking about those people who, through their cell phones, knew that the
Twin Towers and the Pentagon had been hit, and by the direction they were going,
figured their plane was probably headed for the White House. They knew the risk
they were taking but they decided that if the plane was going down, it was
going down where they wanted it to. Freedom, period.”
Other songs on Wind Over Stone touch on a wide
variety of topics, including love and romance in all their incarnations.
In “Cherokee,” Taylor discourses on the physical changes this
country has gone through over the years. “America is still a beautiful country,
but some parts are changed forever. I’ve often thought about how beautiful it
must have been before the waves of immigration. Deer on Manhattan Island,
running free? And when I look at the portraits of our Native American Indians,
I’ve always been so impressed by their faces – the determination, the strength.
Two qualities that all people need. I love the conveniences of modern life as
much as anybody, but I do know a lot of beauty has been lost arriving at this
place. Everything has a price, doesn’t it?”
In the song, “Prayers,” Taylor revisits her upbringing. “I was
raised by a church-going single Southern Baptist Mother; she didn’t send us to
church, she took us,” she remembers. “We always had Family Bible time
before going off to bed, each of us reading something from a “Child’s Story of
the Bible.” I was the baby and I remember how happy I was when I could read
aloud too, just like my older sisters. I realize now what a wonderful way it
was to send a child off to bed, with the voices of my sisters and my mother in
my head. Then, I would say my prayers with her. My mother stressed the love and
forgiveness side of things, something I will always be grateful for.”
Poetry has been a main inspiration throughout Taylor’s
songwriting, and in “I Take it Back,” she references one of the best.
“Sometimes in the heat of the moment, a person can say things they REALLY
shouldn’t say, and too much as well,” Taylor offers. “This is a song about a
woman who’s let her mouth get away from her. As Carl Sandburg so beautifully
said -
‘Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you
calling--
Look out how you use proud words.’”
The album’s closing song, “Love Like Yours and Mine,” carries a
universal message. “This song was inspired by the belief that one’s home needs
to be a place of love and acceptance,” Taylor states. “And if a person lives
long enough to be old and dream back through the years, you want to have had a
true love to remember and be grateful for.”
Previous Quotes on Dulcie Taylor’s Music
“It’s already been a good year for
singer-songwriter Dulcie Taylor, seeing as how she’s won her second consecutive
New Times Music Award as Best Songwriter 2014. How appropriate, given the
finely etched songs on her fifth album, Only Worn One Time,
replete with reflections on mortality, heartbreak, self-reliance, self-doubt,
commitment and similar weighty topics relevant to the real world on a daily
basis … she seems poised to take a whole different kind of journey next time
around. It’ll be worth waiting for, guaranteed.” – Deep Roots Magazine
“Dulcie Taylor writes from the heart. Filled
with provocative imagery, universal sentiment and hopeful (yet oftentimes sad)
story-songs, her folksy Americana comes to the fore with the help of some
master instrumentalists.” – Aquarian Weekly
“Taylor has a sharp eye for details that helps
to elevate her songs above the norm.” – Icon Magazine
Dulcie Taylor Tour Dates
8/29 Asuncion Wine Bar – Paso Robles, CA
9/01 Picking Up the Tempo (Live on KCBX) –
San Luis Obispo, CA
9/03 Socrates – Atascadero, CA
9/06 Ragged Point – Big Sur, CA
9/13 Arroyo Grande Concerts in the Park
(2-5 PM) – Arroyo Grande, CA
9/19 Wild Horse Winery – Paso Robles, CA
9/20 Luna Red – San Luis Obispo, CA
9/23 Paso Robles Golf Club – Paso Robles,
CA
9/25 Costa de Oro Winery – Santa Maria, CA
9/26 Boo Boo Records (CD Release Show - 5:00
PM) – San Luis Obispo, CA
9/27 Shell Café – Pismo Beach, CA
10/02 Cheren
Ranch (CD Release Show) - Atascadero, CA
10/03 Sea Pines – Morro Bay, CA
10/04 Otter Rock Café – Morro Bay, CA
10/10 Jade Festival – Big Sur, CA
10/11 Sea Venture – Pismo Beach, CA
10/12 Cambria Pines – Cambria, CA
10/17 The Pour House – Paso Robles, CA
10/18 Ragged Point – Big Sur, CA
10/23 1880
Union Hotel - Los Alamos, CA
10/24 Chateau Lettau Winery – Paso Robles, CA
10/25 Luna
Red, San Luis Obispo, CA
10/28 Wine & Song Concert Series – South Pasadena,
CA
10/31 Vina Robles Winery – Paso Robles, CA
