Andy Powers joins the podcast crew to talk about the Taylor American Dream Series, our latest offering of all-solid-wood guitars designed to meet musicians wherever they are. Cameron and Jay chat with Andy about the inspiration behind these new models and how we went about designing them before Andy gives us a live demo of an American Dream guitar.

Episode 33: Building Our American Dream

Southern Ground is a famed recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee, and boasts an impressive catalogue of work, including albums by Dwight Yoakam, Kacey Musgraves, Zac Brown, the Foo Fighters, Neil Young and many other world-class artists. In this Bonus Episode, Cameron and Jay talk with the studio crew about their gear, their approach to recording, and the history of their venerable establishment.

Bonus Episode: Southern Ground Nashville

David Huff

Nashville producer and drummer David Huff sits down with Cameron and Jay to chat about his dad’s musical influence on his life and share stories of his career as a producer in one of the strongholds of American music.

Nashville Friends Part 2: David Huff

Marty Dodson

Marty Dodson, songwriter and founder of musical collective SongTown, is no stranger to the world of Taylor, having been a part of our artist family for years. For this episode, Marty shares stories about his career as a songwriter, including the time he put a nail in the wall at home to save a place for the gold record he was determined to earn. Marty also reveals insights about the songwriting process and the parts that make a good song.

Nashville Friends Part 1: Marty Dodson

Master guitar designer Andy Powers talks all things Builder's Edition, sharing the inspiration that brought this collection of comfortable, innovative guitars to life.

The Powers Cut: Builder's Edition

Cameron sits down with Grammy-winning producer/engineer Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits) to discuss his approach to recording. Jay and Cameron interview Nashville session ace Jerry McPherson (Tim McGraw and Faith Hill) about his journey from teenage session musician in Texas to one of Nashville’s most sought-after guitarists. Plus, Taylor’s Ryan McMullen demos the new V-Class 712ce.

Episode 29: Making Nashville Studio Magic

Taylor CFO Barbara Wight stops in to talk about the early days at the ebony mill in Cameroon, her story of joining Taylor after retirement, and what it’s like to work alongside a guitar visionary like Bob Taylor.

Episode 28: Out of Retirement, Into the Fire

Barenaked Ladies frontman Ed Robertson stopped by the Taylor factory this week, and we sat down for a special podcast chat on his career, writing the theme song for the hit TV show The Big Bang Theory, and where he’s headed next.

Episode 27: Taylor Artist - Barenaked Ladies

Pop and rock songstress Tiffany stops by the Taylor studio to talk about her career and continuing to pursue new musical ideas. Then, we chat with Taylor’s own Katrina Horstman about the Taylor factory experience and teaching people how we build guitars.

Episode 26: I Don’t Think We’re Alone Now

Beatie Wolfe, British songwriter and creator, joins the crew to talk about transforming music into innovative nontraditional formats. Then, we chat with Mojave Audio president Dusty Wakeman about working with country legends and building a career around the art of sound engineering.

Episode 25: More Than Meets The Ear

Cameron and Jay from Taylor Guitars hang out with artists, music industry insiders, and guitar engineers from the Taylor factory. They chat about guitars we've built, argue about music, and provide an inside look at the world of Taylor Guitars.

A podcast about Taylor guitars, people who play them, sustainability, making and appreciating music.

Insightful, Interesting, Musical

This is a great podcast from Taylor. It has a good balance between information, entertainment and interviews with artists as well as some pretty rad performances. It&#39;s also interesting to get an inside perspective about the Taylor brand. Great job TG!

Fresh, Creative, Fun

Taylor Guitars: From The Factory

Taylor Guitars founders Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug share stories of the very beginning. They look back on early struggles, accomplishments, and why keeping guitars is bad for a luthier.

Bob and Kurt: How It All Started

Bob Taylor

In this conversation about Taylor’s latest efforts to create a more sustainable future, Bob Taylor joins Tony Polecastro, Cameron and Jay to share what he’s learned while working to transform an ebony sawmill business in Cameroon over six years. Bob talks about the challenges and progress along the way, his love of the Cameroonian people, and why standardization is the way out of chaos. He also explains why planting trees has become his mission, and sheds light on two current projects: an innovative ebony replanting program, and his work to plant a koa forest in Hawaii. As usual, Bob serves up a few nuggets of inspiring life wisdom along the way.

Episode 15: Bob Taylor: The Ebony Project Takes Root

Andy Powers

Cameron and Jay sit down with Andy Powers, master guitar designer and the architect behind the new Grand Pacific round-shoulder dreadnought, to talk acoustic inspiration, the power of V-Class bracing, design choices, and more.

Episode 19: Andy Powers and the Grand Pacific

Elise Trouw

Taylor singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Elise Trouw chats with Cameron and Jay about her recent YouTube song mashup success. They talk about songwriting and live looping, and she plays a few songs on her T5z.

Episode 11: Taylor Artist - Elise Trouw 

The guys are joined by Taylor District Sales Manager Rich Casciato, who shares his thoughts about what makes a great guitar collection and demos a 522ce 12-Fret. After that, Jonah Matranga, Taylor artist and member of Far and Onelinedrawing, stops by to chat about his solo work and reminisce about Far album Water &amp; Solutions on its 20th anniversary.

Episode 16: The Tone Collector

The guys chat with Tracey and Vance Marino from the  to introduce their organization and talk about the process of writing music. Then, the hosts dig into Taylor’s new line of guitar picks with Chief Business Development Officer Keith Brawley.

Episode 22: The Grand Poobah of Picks

Taylor’s Director of Natural Resource Sustainability, Scott Paul, shares how an epiphany at a volcano in Costa Rica set him on a path that led him to the UN, the White House, Greenpeace, and Taylor Guitars. He also talks about the project that brought him together with Bob Taylor in Alaska, what sustainability actually means, and the work Taylor is doing to replant ebony in Cameroon and koa in Hawaii. It all starts with a killer guitar demo from Taylor’s Michael Lille, who plays an all-koa K24ce featuring Taylor’s V-Class bracing.

Episode 14: Sustain and Sustainability

We talk about how Taylor creates new guitars with 16-year Taylor veteran Engineering Project Manager Crystal Lawrence, then chat with touring circuit pros Terry Myers and Glen Wolff about using DI boxes to get the perfect live tone.

Epsiode 23: What's a DI box?

Steph Johnson

Award-winning soul-jazz singer-songwriter and community leader Steph Johnson not only left a solid job in banking to pursue a professional career in music, she also applied her musical talents to address the issues of homelessness. Steph talks about co-founding the Voices of Our City Choir for people experiencing homeless in her home town of San Diego.

Episode 13: Steph Johnson: Helping Homeless People Express Their Voice

Cameron and Jay talk to longtime Taylor photographer Tim Whitehouse on his last day before retirement before diving in to a conversation about guitar effects with Jeff and Jordyn from BOSS. This episode includes a demo of the Taylor V-Class 414ce.

Episode 18: Put Your Effects Foot Forward

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