Life With a Slow Ear

VINYL FORMAT. With the benefit of hindsight it sometimes appears as if all roads lead home. For Taylor Hollingsworth, the journey started back in the state of his birth, Alabama. There, Hollingsworth spent years penning brash, rhythmic rock tunes which he beat out of his electric guitar with all of the beautiful subtleties of a thresher. Though accolades poured in for his blistering guitar, Hollingsworth still felt as if he hadn't quite put his thumb on the musical expression of himself.

Life With a Slow Ear finds Hollingsworth stripping down his music to the simplest of components: an acousic guitar and vocals. It is a beautiful and ragged record that plays like the words on a page of a great Southern novel read. Life With a Slow Ear sounds like a dusty desert and the honest and direct lyrics feel like an old pair of leather boots. Like the best blues and folk singers, Hollingsworth's music now, finally, just sounds like home.