TAYLOR HOLLINGSWORTH On Tour To Support Tragic City (Brash Music) With Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers


PASTE MAGAZINE ­ ... there's plenty of upped-voltage, alt. country swagger on Taylor Hollingsworth¹s Tragic City debut.... Hollingsworth is a fabulist on the loose in the South. Despite genuinely beefy horn-driven riffage like 'Little Queenie,' which infuses A.M.-era Wilco with garage stomp, Hollingsworth's thin, knowing voice is often bookish rather than brawling....Hollingsworth has found a niche and can only carve deeper.

ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION ­ "Speaking of talent and charisma, Taylor Hollingsworth has star written all over him. His gritty rock strikes just the right balance between sharp and sloppy. And this guitar-slinging kid from Birmingham has a fantastic dirty-sweet voice. It might be the coolest candy-coated sneer since Marc Bolan started banging gongs in the afterlife. His new album, "Tragic City," is rock like it ought to be."

DALLAS OBSERVER - "Out of Birmingham, Alabama, comes this Southern-fried greasy punk, all snarling lips and attitude, equal parts Axl Rose and Keith Richards with a fashion sense copped from Bowie to boots presenting a charmingly ramshackle loser aiming for respectability but consistently--and thankfully--failing....Hollingsworth incorporates classic themes of dissolution into his heady and sweaty mix of punky soul and proletarian rhythm and blues."

ORLANDO CITY BEAT ­ "This debut full-length by Birmingham, Ala. baby-face Taylor Hollingsworth is the type of scampish, unkempt aesthetic that's born of good vintage record collections. Culling from the first three bedrock decades of rock 'n' roll (Chuck Berry, the Stones, Tom Petty), he's crafted
a sound that's coarse by design but stylized by his embellished guitar playing."

CONFIRMED DATES
3/17 ­ Ft. Collins, CO ­ Aggie Theatre
3/18 ­ Denver, CO ­ Gothic Theatre
3/20 ­ Brookings, SD ­ Skinner¹s Pub
3/21 ­ Lincoln, NE - Knickerbockers
3/22 ­ Cedar Falls, IA ­ The Reverb
3/23 ­ Minneapolis, MN ­ Fine Line Music Cafe
3/24 - Chicago, IL ­ Martyr's
3/25 ­ Chicago, IL ­ Martyr's
3/26 - Cleveland, OH ­ Beachland Ballroom
3/29 - Boston, MA ­ Harper¹s Ferry
3/30 ­ Philadelphia, PA ­ Grape Street Pub
3/31 ­ Asbury Park, NJ ­ Stone Pony
4/2 ­ Falls Church, VA ­ State Theatre
4/4 ­ Atlanta, GA ­ Smith¹s Olde Bar
4/5 ­ Nashville, TN ­ Exit Inn

It¹s been happening for a long time. Some guitar slinging kid emerges, displaying a blues rock & soul influenced sound that¹s born out of the South. The family tree branches reach all the way from Macon to Memphis. Taylor Hollingsworth makes sure a Birmingham, AL. thumbtack is on the map as well.

Taylor may strike you as just another skinny kid with attitude, drinking next to you at the bar. That is, until he straps on a vintage guitar, takes the stage and rivets your attention with an arsenal of great songs and ferocious ability. You may think you¹ve seen this before, but Taylor is not quite like anything you know. Just the latest progeny from a long line of
guitar driven, deep South rock & roll DNA.