Laura Taylor Whitfield

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Member Since: 5/22/2006
Band Website: laurataylorwhitfield.com (under construction)
Band Members: Laura Taylor Whitfield: Singer, Songwriter, Guitars, Harmonica, Harmonies... Featured ensemble: Don Jaques: Soul Producer, Engineer, Flute.... Mike Pfaff: drum kit, vibes, percussion... Steve Charlson: fretless bass... Tanner Taylor: Yamaha Electric Grand & Rhodes... Jason Danielson: Rhodes, on 'Zero Ground' Carla Rigolin Hassett: backing vocals ...
Influences: The influences are infinite but a few folks who have carried some weight for me are: Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, DYLAN, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, Van Morrison, James Taylor, Jewel, Traffic, Robert Plant, Chrissie Hynde, Don Henley, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Nicks, Muddy Waters, Tom Waits, Rickie Lee Jones, Peter Gabriel, Leonard Cohen, Joan Osbourne, Boz Scaggs, Tori Amos, Shawn Colvin, Diana Krall, Kenny Loggins, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Melissa Etheridge, Gordon Lightfoot, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Moody Blues, all Eric Clapton, Yes, Stevie Wonder, James Cotton, Janis Ian, Seal, Sting, Jude Cole, Five For Fighting....all the Motown, Delta blues, Classic rock, Stravinsky, Punk to Edith Piaf! Animals, nature, underdog Children, unplanned travel, writing down the marrow bones, foreign films, reading, painting everything and i mean everything! theatre, camping, riding bareback, dumpster diving for old furniture to restore, flea markets, turning nothin' into somethin', swimming in crystalline waters, keepin' it real!!!!!! honesty, teardrop's, wind & original wild gardens, acoustic guitars, dancing on the edge, Eastern Indian food mmmm! chaos & the art of placement, naked emotionally, a GOLD full moon, the truest YOU, fresh yellow ledger pads, Personal pens, Keeping the workings a mystery, just showing the RESULTS! I adore The movie "Wings of Desire" film by Wim Wender's, also "What's Eating Gilbert Grape", directed by Lasse Hallstrom The book by Dan Millman, "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" & "Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield also "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupery..."Sermon on the Mount" by Emmet Fox..(awesome) anything Edgar Cayce...Emmet Fox, Emily Dickinson, My heroes: MY MOTHER! The metaphysical Christ, Mary Frey Allen, all children & animals, and everyone who is true to their art and themselves...
Sounds Like: ORGANIC, Honest.... with a bit of dirt and LOTS of paint under the fingernails...
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