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Please join us for a special album release party with Crosstown Art’s own Paul Taylor. He’s releasing his first full-length album — “The Music Stands” — under the nom de plume, New Memphis Colorways. And he’s assembled a very interesting cast of musical characters for the evening — Susan Marshall & Reba Russell on background vocals, Pat Harrington on electric guitar, David Collins on keyboards and auxiliary sounds/textures, Rob Douglas on bass, and Kyle Neblitt on the drums.

Tickets: $10
Doors at 7 pm | Performance at 7:30 pm

Some of Paul’s friends and musical associates have already chimed in about “The Music Stands”:

“Paul has really come into his own here. Although the songs are deceptively simple, there’s a world inside each track. These little musical creations are killer. They will creep up on you. They’ll reach out and grab you. It’s all very soulful. And a little magical too. Kinda proggy. Kind of indie. And utterly impossible to describe. I dig it.” — Chuck Prophet

“Paul’s out of his damn mind. He conjures more original musical ideas in 12 bars than most musicians do with entire albums. ‘The Music Stands’ finds him, as always, accessing strangenesses and welding the unexpected with a singular vision.” — Cory Branan

Having put out three releases under his birth name, including “Open Closed” (2007) & “Share It” (2009), both on Makeshift Records, as well as self-released The Old Forest Trail EP (2015), Paul has now embarked on a new project called New Memphis Colorways. New Memphis Colorways more fully embodies the wide-ranging influences from his storied career as a Memphis musician. This moniker debuted with his self-released Old Forest Loop EP (2018) and continues with the forthcoming “The Music Stands,” due out on 1/31/2020.