Brit Taylor casually strings together eleven songwriting masterclasses on her latest album, Land of the Forgotten. The album is dedicated to the small victories and near-misses of Appalachia, which Taylor has traversed as a professional singer since she was a child. Forgotten lovingly pays homage to Taylor’s East Kentucky roots with fiddle, mandolin, a refreshing drawl, and a take-no-shit brassiness that will win you over instantly.
Taylor and her songwriting collaborators set out to make a record inspired by the sweeping everyday epics of '80s and '90s country. On Forgotten, they take the concept of "the specific is universal" and run away with it: we meet jilted lovers hosting impromptu garage sales, lonely dive bar queens, hippies, preppers, and everyone in between. Every song here is as cinematic as it's catchy, infused with warmth and, more often than not, a windup to a suckerpunch of a line. Though, like all good country songs, Taylor and her cadre will make you feel real feelings when you least expect it.
