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BIO HIGHLIGHTS
* Penned 1 Hit (Billboard, Cashbox, R&R) “Your Love Amazes Me” Recorded by Country artist John Berry ~ * Top 5 HIT in AC charts for artist Michael English also with "Your Love Amazes Me * Songwriter of The Year ~ * Song of the Year - *Backing vocals on Janis Ian’s Revenge CD * - Short lived record deal on RCA records, produced by Mary Ann Kennedy *produced by Randy Scruggs * produced by Steve Bogard *Publishing companys: Warner Chapell, Blue Water Music, Gila Monster Music, Curb Music. Currently self published via AmandaRick Music.
Discography
Artists who have recorded Amanda's songs, Tanya Tucker/Wishing it All Away – Tanya Tucker /Your Love Amazes Me - Doug Supernaw/Fire In The Rain - Ricochett/Hanging By A Thread - John Berry/Your Love Amazes Me - Michael English/Your Love Amazes Me - Rena Gaile/All She Wants - Andy Childs/Your Love Amazes Me - Greg Trooper/I Love it When She lies To Me
See below for comments regarding Amanda's next record. And stay tuned for more.
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"Amanda is a friend of mine....I'm also a fan....she brings her own infectious passion to everything that she does...this record is no exception...she is a singer-songwriter-producer extraordinair, and a real person to boot....she's also a great cook, and being good-looking doesn't hurt....there's a lot of love on this record y'all....when you hear it for the first time you'll get it....love you toots...."
Michael Smotherman - Songwriter/Artist/Multi-Instrumentalist (check him out at) http://cdbaby.com/cd/smotherman
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Read below about Amanda's ONLY WHEN I BREATHE CD - Released in 2000. The award winning CD Cover designed by www.taylordesign.com ...
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Amanda Hunt Taylor
~ Only When I Breathe ~
"Amanda Hunt-Taylor's debut album is a rare complex collection of songs from a person with a rare and complex combination of talents. She writes with emotional intelligence, but also with emotional abandonment, and though her voice is a wonderfully pure and controlled melodic instrument, she surrenders herself to every song, and you forget that your listening to a record."
From the late, great Randy Vanwarmer - Pop artist/songwriter - You Left Me Just When I needed You Most.
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"Amanda Hunt-Taylor's new stuff sets a kind of mood and emotion that you don't often hear these days. She knocked me out, and you better believe I'm jades as hell, so thats not easy to do!."
Bob Welch - Songwriter/Guitarist of the original Fleetwood Mac Band.
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Amanda Hunt Taylor
~ Only When I Breathe ~
www.amandahunttaylor.com
Artist Amanda Hunt-Taylor
CD Title Only When I Breathe
Born Atlanta, Georgia
Birth date: January 25th Aquarius
Style - Acoustic Rock/Americana/AC
Produced by Amanda Hunt-Taylor and George Marinelli (Bonnie Raitt/Bruce Hornsby & The Range)
Mixed by Snake Reynolds (Shania Twain, Elvis Costello/Ray Charles)
Featured Musicians
George Marinelli - Electric, acoustic and high string guitars, melodica, organ
David Hungate - bass (todo/Boz Scaggs)
Mike Rodovski - Percussion
Rick Taylor - Bass
Mike Noble - Mandolin and acoustic high string and twelve string guitars
All back ground vocals by
Amanda Hunt-Taylor and George Marinelli
Song Titles
Stars In Your Eyes
We Just Missed The Rain
Your Love Amazes Me
A Vacancy of love
Wingless Angels
Only When I Breathe
I Do Like Lovin You
You Can Try But You Can’t Make Me
Somebody Say Its Okay
Light Years
Overview ~
After seventeen years of successfully writing songs for other artists, Amanda Hunt-Taylor, currently residing in Nashville, TN launched her own recording and performing career with her debut CD “Only When I Breathe” on her self owned label AmandaRick Records. AmandaRick Records was formed by Amanda and her husband Rick Taylor (Bassist/Composer), both Rick and Amanda enjoyed Americana chart success with their first release "Only When I Breathe" - single: Your Love Amazes Me
What Others are Saying ~
The co-writer of “Your Love Amazes Me” has a lovely solo CD. Her soulful singing on this, its title tune is backed by stark guitar strumming and eerie melodica pumping. It will get under your skin and into your mind. Memorable and imaginative work.” Robert K. Oermann - “Music Row Magazine”
more below ...
BIO HIGHLIGHTS
* Penned 1 Hit (Billboard, Cashbox, R&R) “Your Love Amazes Me” Recorded by Country artist John Berry ~ * Top 5 HIT in AC charts for artist Michael English with the song "Your Love Amazes Me * Songwriter of The Year ~ * Song of the Year - * Songwriter of the year *Backing vocals on Janis Ian’s Revenge CD *short lived record deal on RCA records being produced by Mary Ann Kennedy *produced by Randy Scruggs * produced by Steve Bogard
Discography
Artists who have recorded Amanda's songs, Tanya Tucker/Wishing it All Away – Tanya Tucker /Your Love Amazes Me - Doug Supernaw/Fire In The Rain - Ricochett/Hanging By A Thread - John Berry/Your Love Amazes Me - Michael English/Your Love Amazes Me - Rena Gaile/All She Wants - Steele Toed Cowboys/I May Never - Janis Ian/No One Else Like You ... and others
Currently Self published via AmandaRick Music (BMI) - Nashville, TN office.
Alanna Nash Review - COUNTRY MUSIC MAGAZINE -
Why is it that so many of the really creative singer/songwriters just ripe for bursting through the commercial wall happen to be women? Case in point: Amanda Hunt-Taylor, best known for writing John Berry's stirring hit "Your Love Amazes Me." Hunt-Taylor, originally from Atlanta Georgia, grew up the daughter of a songwriter, with music coursing through her viens, always knowing what she wanted to do. On her debut CD "Only When I Breathe," it's obvious that this is not an artist defined strictly by the term "country," but that Hunt-Taylor's work is probably best classified as lightly dressed "acoustic music." Many of her songs, especially the Bonnie Riatt-ish "A Vacancy of Love," would fit in just fine at a Lilith Fair performance, yet it's easy to imagine a commercial country artist such as Trisha Yearwood recording the title ballad, or a soul diva grooving on "I Do Like Lovin You." Still, Hunt-Taylor's music should appeal to both men and women as it cuts across genre, even as it makes her fluid voice and style more difficult to immediately identify. Intensely personal and yet at once universal, the songs can be as intimate as a confessional box or as independent as a fifth generation grand dame. Beautifully framed by multi-instrumentalist George Marinelli whose electric slide guitar slices through the opening cut like a laser, the album has a sort of shimmering integrity, whether in the instrumental touches like the "Hawaiian" acoustic slide on "Your Love Amazes Me" (which works equally as well as a love song or as a contemporary Christian Devotional), or in Hunt-Taylor's searing, autobiographical writing, particularly on "Somebody Say Its Okay," the story of her parents' painful marriage and divorce, with the inherent message about the life long effects of alcoholism on an entire family. Just why it's usually a female writer who can bring this kind of polished artistry to the surface on a debut - even an independently produced outing such as this - is difficult to say. As with many of the changes in the Nashville Music industry in the last decade, however, blessings are not to be questioned, but savored. And enjoyed.
Neil Fagain Review - PERFORMING SONGWRITER MAGAZINE
Only When I Breathe, Amanda Hunt-Taylor
Amanda Hunt-Taylor wrote the number-one single "Your Love Amazes Me." John Berry made it a country smash and Michael English put it on the AC charts. It was SESAC's Song of the Year in 1994, and received a BMI award for one million radio plays. The lady knows how to write a hit and she includes it here on her debut disc. She and producer/guitarist, George Marinelli (Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Hornsby) leave off the studio bombast though, letting the song float along on the strength of its melody and some shimmering acoustic guitars and mandolins. The same can be said for the rest of the album, and while that may be the only song you recognize it won't be the only song you'll like. "We Just Missed The Rain" and "Light Years," both co-writes with Marinelli, are strong, well written, and beautifully performed. While nine of the ten songs on the album are love songs, they're mature and intelligent. "Rain" and "Light Years" are two fine examples. If, as the song says, romance is a slow dance, Amanda Hunt-Taylor is ready for the occasion.
Robert K. Oermann Review - MUSIC ROW MAGAZINE
"The Co-writer of "Your Love Amazes Me" has a lovely solo CD. Her soulful singing on this, its title tune, is backed by stark guitar strumming and eerie melodica pumping. It will get under your skin and into your mind. Memorable and imaginative work."
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