Raised in California’s Central Valley on country music and The Carpenters, Boy Scouts aka Taylor Vick picked up her first guitar in fourth grade. She started writing her own songs not long after, inspired by acoustic guitar-wielding radio icons like the Dixie Chicks and Michelle Branch. Now an Oakland-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Vick makes the kind of music that hits like good advice from a beloved friend. In the vein of Frankie Cosmos and Florist, her music is generously warm and inviting, built atop her open, searching voice, but it doesn’t shy away from tough emotional truths.
Like Lomelda’s secular hymns and Hop Along’s energetic kiss-offs, Vick’s songs survey the damage that can come from loving other people with curiosity and grace. Free Company is her most vital and incisive work yet, a stunningly tuneful rumination on heartbreak and loss that is always galloping toward the horizon.
Her tightest and most cohesive collection of songs, Vick recorded Free Company in a tiny studio her friend Stephen Steinbrink set up inside a rented shipping container–a unique spot that ended up being perfect for her. “It’s a windowless little room, but that made me feel really comfortable,” she says. “We did it in the comfort of a weird, atypical recording space.”
This fall she will tour accompany Jay Som on a nationwide US tour.
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Track Listing:
1, Get Well Soon
2, In Ya Too
3, Momentary Love
4, All Right
5, Throw Away Love
6, Expiration Date
7, Hate Ya 2
8, Cut It
9, You Were Once
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