“You can’t help but be captured by her writing.”
“Taylor sets herself apart through her understated and believable voice.”
“Like the rest of her quietly impressive catalog, Songs of Instruction is a work of incredible consistency within Taylor’s established canon that has resulted from sizable shifts in her professional and personal life, an evocative set of her patented short stories-cloaked-as-Folk/Pop songs, inspired by the ceaseless nature of change and the enormity of irreconcilable loss.”
Originally from sunny South Florida, the emotionally dynamic music of Kim Taylor has appeared in numerous films and television series over the years including Smallville, The Unit, One Tree Hill, Ghost Whisperer, The L Word, Flashpoint, Cyberbully, Hawthorne, and Army Wives among others. She has toured extensively with Australian artist Kasey Chambers, Canadian songwriter Ron Sexsmith, Kentucky’s Ben Sollee, and Ohio’s Over the Rhine and has opened for numerous artists including Kris Kristofferson and Grace Potter. In 2013, Taylor co-starred in the Sundance and Berlinale selected Matt Porterfield film I Used To Be Darker which garnered much critical success: “ . . . a lyrical ballad that is intimate in scale but international in scope.” (The New Yorker)
Taylor’s song “I Am You” receives over a million monthly streams in China and in 2018 she performed at several major festivals around the mainland. Her most recent 2019 release and fifth full-length studio album, Songs of Instruction, is a 10 song collection of her signature intimate folksy narrative songwriting style. Her song “The Hard Way” was used in the 2019 Chinese drama thriller Sheep Without a Shepherd, one of the mainland’s highest grossing films.
