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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.

Taylor comes from a musical family, and she told Spinner, "there were always guitars and keyboards and instruments around the house, and we were always making my mom crazy." Her father is a musician who made the family name famous by writing jingles for the fast-food restaurant Mylo's in their hometown of Birmingham, Alabama.

Download or subscribe to the Interface podcast for Maria Taylor's entire live performance and interview. Video podcast requires iTunes 6 or higher and MP3 pocast is audio only.


Watch the full set on the DL Show

1. 'Leap Year'
2. 'A Clean Getaway'
3. 'Lost Time'
4. Maria Taylor Interview

Buy 'Lynn Teter Flower' on iTunes

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