Recorded at Rock Romano’s Red Shack in Houston, Texas, and produced by Taylor, HOLLYWOOD POCKETKNIFE is a stunning collection of 7 new songs and 3 surprising covers from an artist hailed by critics as one of the world’s greatest living songwriters and performers.
| Hollywood Pocketknife Highway Kind |
Carnival Jim and Jean Jail Widow's Walk |
| DECEMBER 2007: |
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HOLLYWOOD POCKETKNIFE #7 on Euro Americana Chart
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| JANUARY 2008: |
| HOLLYWOOD POCKETKNIFE nominated for FolkWax Album Of The Year |
| ERIC TAYLOR nominated for FolkWax Artist Of The Year |
| HOLLYWOOD POCKETKNIFE #5 on Freeform American Roots Chart |
Painting: Karl Mullen
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| * * * * "We are familiar with the normal high standard of Eric's former CDs, but Hollywood Pocketknife has surprised us." |
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Heaven (The Netherlands)
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| "A truly outstanding piece of work." |
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Maurice Hope, Maverick
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| "The guarantee that is inherent in an Eric Taylor composition is that the lyric will be literate, be it a conventional story with start, middle, and end or simply a scene snatched from some larger event. On his previous albums the sadness, joy, beauty, and truth embraced in his words have consistently given me the chills, the result being the urge to repeat the aural experience. There are quite a few examples of the latter on Hollywood Pocketknife. Darn if Taylor hasn't done it again - it's what makes reviewing his albums a task to relish." |
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Arthur Wood, Folkwax
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| "A true masterpiece. Without exception, beautiful, narrative songs....Mr. Taylor simply has proved himself again." |
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Leo Kattestaart, Altcountry.nl
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| "Eric Taylor is both quietly and intensely one of our best singer-songwriter-performers, a cerebral poet with a clear creative course accompanied by solid, never-hurried acoustic guitar licks capable of drawing listeners into the quiet places between the notes. . . [Hollywood Pocketknife is] a consistently listenable CD, as fine as an evening reading a good book at a warm hearth while the wind howls outside." |
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Buddy magazine
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| "As I anxiously waited to receive the new CD from one of my favorite all-time songwriters, Eric Taylor, I thought to myself, how can he possibly top The Great Divide? One listen to the brilliant Hollywood Pocketknife and I realized that Eric has again raised the bar, he never disappoints, can't wait to see how he tops this!!" |
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Ed Becker, KDHX - St. Louis
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| "Yet another powerful and brilliantly written collection of songs." |
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John Walker, Americana Roots
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| "The pocketknife made it in yesterday's post. Cutting sharply through the cold wind bluster of a Bozeman last look at '07. Fine, fine indeed. Really love this set of tunes and the instrumentation makes them sparkle and shine. Thanks, and I'll be enjoying playing Hollywood Pocketknife." |
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Rik James, KGLT - Bozemann
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