Taylor McCall

BIOGRAPHY

When the decades-old gospel recording fades into static, from which rises the first guitar chord of Taylor McCall’s Mellow War, you feel like you’re walking out of one world and into another. Or perhaps, for a moment anyway, straddling two worlds.

Born in Greenville, South Carolina to a craftsman and a preacher’s daughter, McCall quickly found his true sanctuary in the woods and on the water, and for much of his early life, stepped between the outdoors and the Sunday service.  “I was raised in the outdoors, my dad and I would go fishing in my free time. He raised me to go fly fishing and any chance we got, we were on the water or in the woods.” Experience, story and song were paramount in his upbringing—he was raised in a family steeped in feral mystery. [FULL BIO]