Taylor Pie (born 1947) is an American folk singer from

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, better known as Susan Taylor, a founding member of the Pozo-Seco Singers, whose recording of Michael Merchant's song "Time" topped the charts in Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles. After the group disbanded, she helped launch the country music career of fellow Pozo,

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. In the 1970s she formed a group called The City Country Band with Richard Frank in New York City, and

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used one of her songs, "Back in the Bars Again" in her ''Clams on the Half Shell Review''. After moving to Stockbridge, MA, Susan took the name Taylor Pie as her professional handle and wrote, "Full Grown Fool" with

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which became a country hit for

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. "Just Like Angels," penned with

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was nominated for a gospel

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, Don Williams,

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, John Connely,

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, Valerie Smith, The Tuttles with AJ Lee, the

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, Cluster Pluckers and others have recorded Pie songs. In 2015, Taylor was inducted into the National Traditional Country Music Assn Hall of Fame in

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. She is Director of A&R at PuffBunny Records and engaged in promoting a new type of performance art called Songswarm. , Pie actively writes, publishes, produces and tours.

Industry awards

* National Traditional Country Music Association voted Taylor Pie as one of their 2015 inductees into "America’s Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame" * Women of Substance "So Little Has Changed”, was added to the playlist on the Americana segment each week, Oct.-Dec. 2012

Discography

A partial discography is available.
Examples: *''Shades of Time'' (1968) – Pozo Seco (Susan Taylor and Don Williams with Ron Shaw) - Columbia re-released (2013) Real Gone Music with 11 bonus tracks *''Finally Getting Home'' (1972) – Susan Taylor –

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*''Crying in the Rain'' (1975) – Susan Taylor – Private Stock Records 45 RPM single *''Long Ride Home'' (2003) – Taylor Pie – Pecan Pie Music *''Jubal'' (2005) – Taylor Pie – Pecan Pie Music *''So Little Has Changed'' (2007) – Taylor Pie – PuffBunny Records *''LIVE at Hondo's '' (2009) – Taylor Pie with Eben Wood – PuffBunny Records *''Taylor Pie aka Susan Taylor Finally Getting Home'' (2012) – Re-release of JMI – PuffBunny Records

References

* National Traditional Country Music Associatio

* Women of Substance Radio Sho

* Taylor Pie - The Music Never Die

* "So Little Has Changed" review on My Texas Musi

* Taylor Pie biography on ReverbNattio

External links

Taylor Pie
Much of the biographical and discography information in this article comes from that site, accessed June 26, 2016. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pie, Taylor 1947 births Living people American women country singers American country singer-songwriters American folk singers Singer-songwriters from Texas Country musicians from Texas 21st-century American women