Roasted Hughes Taylor

• 1 Moondance Baby 04:04
• 2 Ballad of Big Bill McGuire 04:42
• 3 Until It Hits 04:17
• 4 Midnight Angel 05:16
• 5 From the Other Side 02:41
• 6 (In the Morning) When It's Over 03:35
• 7 Beautiful Stranger 03:15
• 8 When Love Comes Home 04:54
• 9 Before You Fall 03:34
• 10 Hangin On 02:29
• 11 Rochester 03:23
• Total Runtime 42:10

Info zu Roasted

After three years in the making, Hughes Taylor is thrilled to finally share his latest project: Roasted, a full-length album that blends the soul of blues rock with raw, electrifying energy. Roasted is a melding of two parts: Dark Roast, which dives deep into the heavier, darker side of blues rock, and Light Roast, which embraces a more upbeat, vibrant energy. Together, these two halves form a complete musical experience that showcases Hughes’s growth as both a guitarist and a songwriter. Roasted blends raw guitar riffs, soulful grooves, and expressive vocals into a sound that feels both fresh and familiar. Because so many of these songs were performed live for such a long time, Hughes and his band have successfully created an album that truly represents where they are as a group. Now, after all the twists and turns, Hughes is excited to finally share Roasted with the world. It’s been a labor of love, and he’s incredibly proud of how it turned out.

The songs on Hughes Taylor “Roasted” are filled with greasy guitar riffs, thundering rums, and a solid bass line. When you mix in Taylor’s emotive voice, it’s like good coffee. On this new album, he mixes dark roast, light roast and possibly a shot of espresso. This is a highly recommended blend.

Hughes Taylor, guitar, vocals
Ben Alford, bass, backing vocals
Nich Gannon, drums
Zach Wilson, keyboards (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 7)
Emily Lynn, vocals (track 4), backing vocals (tracks 1, 4, 6)
Evie Somogyi, backing vocals (tracks 3)

Hughes Taylor
An old soul hailing from Macon Georgia USA, Hughes Taylor was immediately drawn to the blues when he first picked up the guitar. Two decades later, he’s become an acclaimed guitarist and songwriter playing a fiery brand of blues-rock whose power trio lineage stretches back to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Cream and Jimi Hendrix. His 5th studio album Dark Roast, set to release May of 2024, is filled with greasy guitar riffs, thundering drums, solid bass lines, and Taylor’s expressive voice on top, blending his bluesy roots with the musical sensibility of his southern-rock predecessors.

Starting on the guitar at age 13, Hughes was performing professionally before he could legally drive, and by the time he started college, creating and performing music was his primary source of income.

He self-released his first full-length album of original songs, Hear My Melody, in the spring of 2016.

Restless followed in early 2018, sandwiched between graduating with honors in marketing from University of North Georgia and marrying the love of his life.

In the summer of 2019, The Hughes Taylor Band’s album Good Blues, Fast, featuring classics lovingly arranged and interpreted by Taylor, was his first release to gain acclaim beyond Georgia and paved the way for the next chapter in his music journey.

In January of 2020, Hughes and his band toured the United Kingdom supporting the Heather Findlay Band. gaining immediate popularity and positive music press reviews. The tour was recorded and released as the Live in the UK album in early 2021.

His 2021 release, Modern Nostalgia, was written during the pandemic and recorded at the legendary Capricorn Sound Studios. A sweet mix of blues, blues-rock, and southern rock, Modern Nostalgia was on the US Blues-Rock Top 50 Album Chart every week for 10 months. A limited-edition double vinyl edition was released in June, 2022.

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