Maria Taylor Is Off to a 'Good Start'

Alabama-born multi-instrumentalist Maria Taylor unearthed a buried childhood memory when she made her latest album, 'Lynn Teter Flower.' In Taylor's candid Interface interview, she told Spinner how she arrived at the disc's name. "My dad found this recording of me when I was little and he sent it to me and I decided to put it on the record." Not knowing what the words "Lynn Teter Flower" actually meant, she called her father and discovered that it was the name of a family friend's flower shop, called "Lynn's Teter Flower."

While Taylor is best known for her dreamy indie-folk, both as a solo artist and as half of Azure Ray (and you might have even seen her playing drums in Bright Eyes' 'Four Winds' video), what's not well-known about her is that she was signed to a major label at the tender age of fifteen in a little band called Little Red Rocket.