Album: Depot Light: Songs of Eric Taylor
Label: Red Beet Records
Release date: Nov. 13, 2015
Former The Tennessean music senior writer turned Country Music Hall of Fame writer/curator Peter Cooper will utilize someone else's words as inspiration for a brand new album in November with a project called Depot Light: Songs of Eric Taylor.
Named one of Nashville’s “10 Most Interesting People” by Nashville Arts & Entertainment magazine, Cooper is also a session player, a producer who has worked with Todd Snider, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Fayssoux Starling McLean, and others, a professor of country music at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, and a senior music writer at Nashville’s daily paper, The Tennessean.
Eric Taylor and his songs have been on the music scene since the early 1970s, when he was an integral part of a Houston songwriting scene that included Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, and Guy Clark. Taylor is one of the most influential songwriters to ever come out of Texas. Over the years, as his reputation and song catalogue have grown, he has had a profound effect on the evolution and development of such well-known Texas artists as Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen, and others. "Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s," says Earle. "He's the real deal."
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