Guitarist Taz Taylor first came to attention when he released “Welcome To America” the debut Taz Taylor Band album in 2006. This album featured legendary vocalist Graham Bonnet (Rainbow, MSG, Alcatrazz) and was met with widespread critical acclaim.
Over the next couple of years the band toured extensively in Europe and the U.K.
Since then Taz has collaborated with other notables such as Mark Boals, Doogie white and Deep Purple keyboardist, Don Airey as well as maintaining a presence on the live scene in his adopted home of Southern California.
2025 finds Taz Taylor Band releasing their 8th album, “The Other Side Of Midnight.” But this time there is a difference…a female vocalist!
Taz explains… “After we completed our last album (Nocturnal) with all of the guest vocalists, we needed to find a guy who could cover all of that material in the live setting. Well as it turns out, that wasn’t as easy as we thought. In fact we had to turn to a girl instead!”.
So into the frame enters Laura K. Vreeland.
Taz continues… “The cool thing about this is that after working with so many guest vocalists whilst still doing a lot of fully instrumental shows in between, this is actually the very first time that we have made an album with a vocalist who is actually IN the band! By the release of the album we will have been playing together for almost three years and the musical chemistry is incredible.”
The album is available as CD from the artist’s website taztaylor.com and digital in all stores.
Track list:
1. Every Day,
2. Lonely I Ride,
3. Desert Song,
4. Paradise,
5. Temple Of The King,
6. Gravitas,
7. Cold Misery,
8. Neverending Loveache,
9. California Dreamin’,
10. The Other Side Of Midnight
Line-up:
Taz Taylor – all electric and acoustic guitars
Laura K. Vreeland – vocals
Barney Firks – bass
Eric Denton – keyboards on 3, 5, 9, 10
Alessandro Del Vecchio – keyboards, drums, backing vocals on 1, 2, 4, 7, 8
Matt Starr – drums on 5, 10
Val Trainor – drums on 3
Taz Taylor Band – The Other Side Of Midnight 2025, MP3+FLAC
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