On Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at 9:49:47 PM UTC-5, Cla...@cx2us.com wrote:
> On Sunday, January 14, 1996 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Gary Varner wrote:
> > I've just (finally!) acquired a copy of Eric Taylor's 1981 LP
> > "Shameless Love" (from Canadian River Music [806-372-4203 from 11am
> > to 9pm CST], 4106 Tyler Street, Amarillo, TX 79110) and I'm
> > wondering if anybody can tell me who exactly Nathan Dean Taylor is.
> > On Taylor's 1995 CD he says at the end of the liner notes:
> >
> > "The songs are in this box. They are only songs. My family
> > is the music. The music is Martha Seymour Taylor, Alexandra
> > Seymour Taylor, and Nathan Dean Taylor."
> >
> > That's from 1995, and there's only one male in the picture
> > underneath that language, a male who looks old enough to have been
> > around in 1981 when Taylor wrote on the back of his first album:
> >
> > "Jack Kerouac taught me that dreams are only real.
> > Nanci Griffith is proof that Jack was right.
> > Nathan Dean Taylor dreams for us all."
> >
> > Now my question is this: Is Nathan Dean Taylor the guy in the
> > picture on the 1995 CD, and what exactly is his relation to Eric
> > Taylor? A child of his with Nanci Griffith, or from a previous
> > relationship, or a kid brother, or what? And is the female on the
> > right in the same picture his current wife? The little girl in the
> > center and the fellow on the left both seem to have Eric Taylor's
> > nose, so I'm guessing he's the father of both.
> >
> > Thanks for any help anyone can be.
> >
> > And BTW, getting Taylor's old LP plus the BF Deal Sampler (with
> > Nanci Griffith's first three recorded songs, none of which have
> > ever been rerecorded or rereleased) from Canadian River Music was
> > the best $20 I've spent in a long time! It you contact them, say
> > I said that!
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Nathan Dean Taylor - That would be me. I'm Eric Taylor's son. My mom is Sherin Meeting, my dad's first wife.