released January 17, 2023

Chris Taylor
Nothing Beats The Original

1. Sympathy for the Devil
2. Walk on the Wild Side
3. Whatever’s Written in Your Heart
4. Since You’re Gone
5. All Things Must Pass
6. Movies
7. Things Have Changed
8. Smokescreen
9. Heroin
10. Heartbeat City


Sympathy for the Devil (Rolling Stones)
Chris Taylor - all vocals, acoustic guitars, fuzz guitar, harmonica, percussion

Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)
Chris Taylor - vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica, keyboards, percussion

Whatever’s Written in your Heart (Gerry Rafferty)
Chris Taylor - lead vocals
Anna Larson - piano and harmony vocals

Since You’re Gone (The Cars)
Chris Taylor - lead vocals, bgv’s, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, bass, percussion, finger snaps
Bob Simpson - bgv’s
Mitchell Connell - electric guitar solo & outro

All Things Must Pass (George Harrison)
Chris Taylor - lead vocals, bgv’s, acoustic guitar, percussion
Mitchell Connell - electric guitar
Kevin Bianchi - mellotron and piano
Jeff Elbel - fretless bass

Movies (Hothouse Flowers)
Chris Taylor - lead vocals, bgv’s and acoustic guitars

Things Have Changed (Bob Dylan)
Chris Taylor - lead vocals, bgv’s, acoustic guitar, percussion
Mitchell Connell - electric guitar
Jeff Elbel - bass

Smokescreen (The Lost Dogs)
Chris Taylor - lead vocal, bgv’s, acoustic guitar, keyboards, percussion, tom tom

Heroin (The Velvet Underground)
Chris Taylor - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, organ, tom tom, percussion
Bob Simpson - electric guitar, bgv’s (plus spoken lyric outro)
Justin Schneider - bass

Heartbeat City (The Cars)
Chris Taylor - lead vocals, bgv’s, acoustic guitar, keyboards, percussion, bass

Produced by Chris Taylor
Recorded and Mixed by Chris Taylor at the Creative Space in San Antonio, TX
Except Bob Simpson, Kevin Bianchi and Jeff Elbel on location
Mastered by Bruce Neher at Disc & Dat

Anna Larson is a singer songwriter and beautiful pianist in Austin, TX
Bob Simpson is a singer songwriter out of Lubbock, TX
Kevin Bianchi is a multi-instrumentalist & singer songwriter in Ohio, his band is called Vanishing Shores
Jeff Elbel is a singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist living in Illinois and his band is called Ping!

Check them out.