"Lullagoodbye Review" by Bradley Mason Hamlin. Go check it out.Ĭlip of Taylor singing backgrounds on "Heroes & Villains." You can own Lullagoodbye by purchasing a copy from Taylor's website listed below. I think there’s a wildcat in there somewhere. I think she really needs to explore this area of her voice and take it even further for a future project. With “Consolation Prize” you get to hear Taylor rock out a bit. Taylor Mills is like chocolate cake with chocolate icing.
It’s fun stuff, but Taylor’s vocals grab you before you ever hear Tommy. “Genie in a Bottle” is where you get your Tommy Shaw of Styx fix, backing Taylor on vocals. I assume she must have been born with that gift, because I don’t think it can be taught. Taylor’s voice soars up and out at you with a purity that comes across with total ease.
I don’t know if “Hello Sun” is too long for today’s radio play (5:10), but it would sound awfully nice coming in over the airwaves … Her range is strong not forced. It would be interesting to hear this track with a country beat. This song immediately shows that Taylor could chart, not only with the adult contemporary list, but with the country crowd as well. The album begins with “Center of the Heart,” metaphorically, a good place to begin. Brian once said, “Taylor Mills sings like an angel.” Well, the proof is right here and Brian got to back her up doing her angelic thing. In the background you have Brian Wilson, Scott Bennett, and Taylor herself double-tracked to create a haunting melody that makes “Raven” the standout A+ track on Lullagoodbye. You add some backgrounds from Brian Wilson and Tommy Shaw and you really have something special.īrian appears on two tracks, “Cradle Me” and “Raven.” “Cradle Me” is good, but “Raven” carries a more sultry vibe that really showcases the richness of Taylor’s voice. This sort of family environment no doubt creates a comfortable experience in the recording studio and allowed Taylor to do exactly what she wanted.
Scott Bennett also wrote many of the tracks you’ll hear when you pick this CD up. Todd is Taylor’s husband and Scott is a close friend from Brian Wilson’s band. Todd Sucherman and Scott Bennett also produced Lullagoodbye and for good reason. Their song 'Since You Been Gone' charted at number 95 on the US charts.Marie played Singing Maid Marie in The Rosebud Beach Hotel and is now a popular multi-media sculptor and artist. Currie is best known for playing in a band with her identical twin Cherie Currie called Cherie & Marie Currie. Mentioning the lineup above is important when considering this album, because it is obviously a labor of love. Marie Michelle Currie (born November 30, 1959) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and artist. Did I leave anything out? And on drums: Todd Sucherman (currently drumming for Styx). Scott can also be heard playing guitar, bass, piano, and organ. Lullagoodbye features 11 tracks sung by Taylor Mills, with additional background vocals by Brian Wilson, Tommy Shaw, and Scott Bennett. Like treacherous Coyotes, they may gut-shoot you or break your heart in the crossing, but however it goes down, know these hombres are determined to make you feel it.Taylor Mills Lullagoodbye Review by Bradley Mason HamlinĪs the summer solstice arrived I sat down to review Lullagoodbye by Taylor Mills and I couldn’t ask for a better or more appropriate day to listen to the woman who gave the Beach Boys sound of Brian Wilson the female harmony it always needed. Emiliano Zapata declared, "It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." In that spirit, these bards of the borderland are swinging for the barbed-wire fences: all swagger and dark visions, hell-bent on sweeping you along with them across the Rio Grande to a broken Promised Land. They serve up stories and essays about lives threatened chasing the elusive, often deadly, dream of more money and better futures beckoning north and south of the border. Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. Your troubled guides along these dusty, bloody stretches of The Devil's Highway are much-awarded crime novelists, journalists, and border-dwelling troubadours. Find the perfect mason and hamlin stock photo. Edited by Craig McDonald Welcome to La Frontera: You're headed way out west this time, intrepid reader, far past where you've dared go before. Stories and essays by Ken Bruen, Jim Cornelius, Garnett Elliott, Bradley Mason Hamlin, Sam Hawken, Mike MacLean, Craig McDonald, Manuel Ramos, Steve Rogers, Tom Russell, James Sallis, Martin Solares, John Stickney, Dave Zeltserman.