BRIT TAYLOR

                                                               "Cabin in the Woods" 

                                                                Cut A Shine Records

When Brit Taylor burst onto the country music scene two years ago with her debut album Real Me, she immediately attracted an immense amount of attention with her unique style that teetered on the edges of Americana, roots based traditional country, and bluegrass.

With Grammy Award winners Sturgill Simpson and Dave “Fergie” Ferguson having come on board from the production side since then, Taylor’s buzz reached incredible new heights as the tease of new music started to rumor its way into conversations within the music community.  

That new music has now arrived with “Cabin in the Woods.”

Co-written by Taylor and Jason White, the song is a picture-perfect masterpiece that allows us a glimpse into Brit’s personal life as she takes us to her cabin in the woods through a healthy smattering of her Eastern Kentucky roots and a mud-stomping rhythm that keeps us in the pocket of the groove.

The fiddle saws through the opening notes and smashes into traditionally inspired instrumentation as the banjo plucks its way into a lyric that sees Taylor painting the laid-back atmosphere that surrounds her secluded retreat, singing lines of her dog sitting on the porch all night long next to the tiki torch and there being a pond out past the tree line that can be seen from her porch in the fall.  

But it’s during the chorus that Taylor turns on her more flirtatious side and sets in motion the underlying story for the feel-good song, when she sings, “Only thing’s missing is a little company, hunker down here by the fire with me,” sending out an unapologetic invitation to the one she’s sweet on to come and join her at the cabin.

Coyly and further enticing, she sings in the second verse “now and then I feel like misbehaving,” as she paints what their stay in with each other night will look like, teasing of the bottle of whiskey that she’s been saving that warms you up real good when you’re sitting close together by the fireside.

When an artist can give you a transparent snapshot into their personal life, it allows the listener to resonate that much more with the song as it carries the feeling that you’re simply hanging out with an old friend. Brit Taylor has absolutely accomplished that task with “Cabin in the Woods” as she ups the hype for her forthcoming sophomore album that much more!

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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