WEBVTT - Tayla Lynn 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:14.920 Carola. She's the queen of talking. He was sown your man. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.360 She's only actually got the scoop on the on the 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:28.320 on side. No one can do with Clie Carola Carola. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:36.280 No one can do with quiet Carol Carola. Hey, y'all, 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.800 welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. I am your host, Caroline Hobby. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.479 I know music, I know people, and I know the 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.400 questions do you want to ask? So let's get hyper 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.440 heads up. These are adults having adult conversations, so there 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:54.040 could be adult content. I'm so excited, you guys. I 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.440 have Taylor and Finger joining me on this episode. She 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.480 is my former trio mate from Stealing Angels. We travel 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.040 the country here together. We opened for Timer Girl, Lady A, 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.760 went on a USO tour. We lived together in a 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.760 house for like three years together. On top of touring together. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:09.680 I mean that's a lot of time together. I know 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.680 this girl so much. She's also in recovery. She shares 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.280 that story. She's the mother of two beautiful boys. She's 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.720 Lauretta Lynn's granddaughter. She has a tribute to her that 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.679 she travels all around the country doing. She is so hilarious. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:22.760 We laugh so hard, we cry, and so in the 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.479 beginning of this episode. I promise it's just a little 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.240 bit of laughing, but we cannot stop laughing. It is 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.200 so good to talk to her. I know you're gonna 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.360 love this interview. So here she is Taylor len Finger 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:37.120 and we're laughing our butts off. Okay, I'm here with 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.880 Taylor Lynn Finger. No, I don't want to Taylor Lynn. 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:49.120 I'm here with Taylor Linn Finger. Taylor Lens your stage name? No? Right? Well, 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:58.360 can we start over? No? So Taylor Lynn. Oh guys, 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.480 this is gonna be This is gonna be an interview 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:12.160 because Taylor. Oh gosh, Sayla. The problem is Taylor and 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.680 I used to be in a trio. Now, why are 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:20.440 you making me laying stop? We did this for a 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:27.639 year and we laughed so hard we cry. What is 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:34.440 it happening here? Okay, Taylor, Taylor pulled together? Start the interview. 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:43.280 I'm sweating. Okay, we have to start the interview. Okay, 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:44.880 I'm gonna ask you a question and tell me the 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:54.560 first thing that comes to mind. Okay, happiness? Oh what this? 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:00.520 You know what? Honestly? Good friendships where you can guttural 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:05.960 laugh and I think that's the word. I'm streaming tears 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.959 because we really did this for so long, And is 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.919 there any better happiness than innocent laughter that you just 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.440 can't even stop? Do you know that I laugh harder 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:19.000 with you than I think anyone. Oh my gosh, listen 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.560 when we used to do that on state I want 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.760 to say to anyone that's listening, we would do this 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.880 in radio station. We'd start laughing and we couldn't stop 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:31.080 on air, on air, crying laughing. We've done this at 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.200 the c M A fast. I mean, like we literally 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.040 would have to just walk away and just not look 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:37.960 at each other. Why do you make me laugh so hard? 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.240 I have no idea what it is? I think I 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.880 have no idea. I think we used to do it 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.200 to escape a little bit, you know, like escape our 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:51.120 reality for a minute, But now I have no idea. Okay, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.080 we got it. I think we got through it. Okay, 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:57.720 So happiness is this? Okay? What's your vision? What's my 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:05.960 vision for your life? And here? Oh okay, um, just 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.920 the word vision okay, Oh okay. Sharon. Caroline's Mom's name 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:14.080 is Sharon and she is a philosopher, So okay, vision, 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.799 don't think about this is rapid fire, rapid fire vision. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:23.800 You didn't say this is rapid fire, Okay vision? Yeah, 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.320 I think my vision is right now, honestly, I mean, 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.520 I know you're in the moment. I am in the moment. 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.800 Is that something you've come to because you did not 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:33.520 used to live in the moment? And I know this 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.360 because we were in a band stealing angels together, which 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.680 we'll get into. Your also the granddaughter of Lauretta Lyn, 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.680 which we're gonna get into, and your own person and 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:46.039 badass just period, and we'll just get into all that. Um. Yeah, 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.640 I think I've had to work really hard to be 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.560 in the moment. Somebody just said to me yesterday and 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.320 it could have actually been you that said you always 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.160 want what you don't have. It was it was it 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.240 was you. Yeah, Because like I live on a farm 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:58.480 right now, and I'm like, well, maybe I need a 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.040 little bit more town. And when I have somebody that 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.960 I trust and love, like you, that will say that 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.200 knows me and will say you know you always want 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.200 just a little bit different, and then I'll go, oh, 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.600 you're right. So I'm a hundred percent happy where I'm 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.160 at right now, and my vision is right now. I 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:16.960 have a career that I love. I have a family 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:18.800 that I love, I have good friends, I don't have 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.800 any enemies I have. Isn't that a great place like 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.679 to get through that dramatic twenty like twenties thirties because 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.440 you're you're reaching the big four? Oh oh, we used 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.760 to lie about your age where I remember that one 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:34.800 time that we did. I'll never forget it. We did 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:39.359 that interview and it says what each would take interviews 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.719 on in Caroline did a printed interview that said Taylor 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:48.120 is thirty four. Taylor is divorced. And we had been 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:53.560 saying I was twenty nine and certainly not divorced, but yes, 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.800 I am divorced, married again, and I'm gonna be forty. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.200 So how did that feel what I and that part 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.120 of your life when we were doing selling Angels and 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.200 we were like trying to make it on the radio, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.240 How did that make you feel when that was printed 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.960 thirty four divorce because that was chafter you know what, 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.640 I was ashamed of that at the time. I was 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.840 ashamed of that. I was trying to be somebody that 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.200 I was myself in so many ways. But you know, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.040 you're seven years younger than me. Jen was five years younger. 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.359 Y'all were in your twenties. I was in my thirties, 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.000 so I was trying to be twenty. Jan Layne was 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.760 the other member of Sailing Angels. She's not a great 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:36.040 man called Runaway June. They're doing amazing. Um and their 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.240 lead singer now is like twenty five. I think so 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.360 when Jen's older and so, I don't know. I'm sure 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:45.440 she kind of gets it. But um A D H D. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.600 Just so, how did you feel? I was just ashamed, 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.840 you know. I mean, I wanted to be twenty five. 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:55.040 I wanted to weigh ninety five pounds, and I had 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.760 to pretend that that's what was up. Now I'm embracing 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.440 full lou Hey, I might have two kids, I have 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.280 a wonderful husband, I'm gonna be forty next month, and 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.440 I'm finally embracing that part of myself because I love 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.760 myself enough. Isn't it really great to get to the 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.920 place where you love yourself. I feel like I finally 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.000 got there. Like I always liked myself and I love myself, 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.080 but like I didn't fully love all of myself, and 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:19.600 I feel like maybe we had a little bit of 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.360 that in common. Yeah, I mean I think when you're 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.680 in your twenties, you don't know anything. Are just a crapshoot, 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.280 They just really are. I mean, you're just kind of 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.920 just swimming through it, you know. And then you start 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.360 getting in your thirties and you really turn into a 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.400 woman and you know kind of who you are, what 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.200 you want. And then I think after you're about thirty 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.840 five years old, that's when you start going, Okay, this 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.360 is really who I am and I'm okay with that. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.280 So who are you? Oh? What is your soul? Like? 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.480 What is your Who is the core of Taylor Lynn Finger? 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.080 The word that keeps throwing in my mind is joyful? 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.720 How wonderful? Yeah? I mean I feel like I have 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.400 a lot of joy. I think I exude joy. I 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.000 try to bring joy to my children, to my husband. 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.640 We laugh. I'm a laugher. I mean, I just love 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.240 to laugh. I'd love to have a good time. I'm 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.640 a nurturer today, you know. I love to cook and 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.000 clean and take care of my family. But I'm still 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.920 that performer that's, you know, balls to the wall a 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:27.480 hundred and ten. I love to perform um and don't 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.640 feel like you found a good balance. I think that's 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.400 gonna be a forever thing. Trying to find balance. You know, 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.400 I'm either too busy or bored. I mean, I don't 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.520 know when that's gonna happen. Yeah, there's really know in 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.760 between for you. Huh, Well, there's really not because when 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.480 I go most of my shows are in the Pacific Northwest, 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.439 out in Seattle, where we lived in a while for 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.000 a while. And I'll go out there and I'll take 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:50.760 both kids and we'll go for a month and I'll 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.199 have fifteen shows and then I'll just be insane. And 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.120 then I'll come home to our farm and I'm sitting 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.080 there for three weeks and i Am like, oh my god, 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.599 I'm gonna call my own skin off. So being in 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.920 the moment, yeah, so that's when you bring your mom 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.679 over Cindy Plymouth, who's hilarious. You make exercise of videos 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.120 on the front porch with a million dogs running through 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.480 and your mom doing like legged well, and my husband 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.079 will go please. So in those moments, that's when I'll 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.199 bring mama over with Mason, who is my four year 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.880 old nephew who is crazy, and he and my four 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.199 year old son together just hear the house up. I 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.079 joined you know, beach biding advocate, and I start selling 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.960 things and then I start a mom's group in town, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.000 and my husband is like, babe, please don't take anything 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.000 else on. I promise you're gonna wig out. And so 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.520 then I just, you know, yeah, get in the Bible 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.600 and hitting my knees and pray to God that I'll 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.960 find balanced. Okay, so let's get into like your life. 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:45.719 I have a few well, actually I want to see 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.120 a few more. Okay, these rapid fire or these you 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.640 kind of answered all these questions? Yeah, the rapid fire? 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.360 What does faith mean to you? Do you edit these? No? Oh? 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.400 Oh good? What does faith mean to Jesus Christ? Um? 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.439 But it's not that, you know, I think there's a 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:05.040 lot of hateful religion talk. I think I'm from the 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.040 South and from the Bible Belt. I mean it's like, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.040 if you didn't love Jesus, then you were awful. And 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.160 I moved to Seattle and I saw so much hatred 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.800 come from religious groups. And I'm not that. I mean, 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.760 I love my homosexuals and I love you know, I 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.319 mean I do, and um, you know, pro choice, and 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:31.080 I believe that Jesus is the way to get to heaven. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.400 But I think that it's everyone's personal journey. Um, you're 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.360 not taking it on to be the judge of when 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.000 I love Jesus and I love my religion. I love 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.719 God and he has saved me, and I think he 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.040 can save you two. But I want that to be 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.240 between you and God. And if I can help you, 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.679 let me help you. But my very best friend and 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:54.319 my husband they're both atheist, you know, and that is cool. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:59.120 What do your thing, man be? You? I agree with 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.560 you on that one has their own journey. And by 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.439 the way, we have background music. If y'all can hear it, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.360 Taylor's hosting. Tell me what you're hosting right now? Well, 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:07.880 first of all, let me tell you how O c 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.319 D that Caroline is that this is really bothering. I 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.280 don't even think y'all can hear it. I'm hosting. It's 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.280 called Nashville Bike Week and we are having the pre 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:22.439 party tonight next September two thousand seventeen. Is a huge 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.080 bash and O p s. You're co hosting one night 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:26.920 with me and just got your job. Oh thank yeah, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.160 you're welcome. I said, we have a great time. We 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.959 would be. We're gonna do the hard rock night because 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.040 we're not gonna do country great because I thought we 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.480 would be good at doing an alternative this, So we're 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.120 gonna do that. So it's next. Let me tell you 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.600 about the next. There's gonna be like a hundred thousand 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:46.520 motorcycle riders out to the Ranch. Nashville Dude Ranch, Laretto, Leans, Lorette, Leans, 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.800 Dude Ranch. It's sixty miles west of Nashville. There are 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.199 gonna be bands every night. Our headliners right now are 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:58.000 Shooter Jennings, Jamie Johnson, Coltford. Yeah, I'm doubt it's gonna 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.320 be great, babe. I mean they're gonna have honkytonk up 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.280 and down out in the Cornfield. Campaign ranch is fun though. 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.280 It's a place to go. It's like a destination and 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.160 there's tons of fun concerts that happened like that. Me 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.400 are we talking about this now? Sure? So Memal's Ranch, 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.959 you know, we moved out there and meals Loretta. Memal 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.880 is Loretta, and we moved out there. There is camping 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.360 and cabins and you can tour her home that's on 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:27.439 Coalmaner's daughter Jim, who was her bus driver for thirty years, 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.200 is the one that gives you the tours of the home. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.360 There's a western town. You might see her outside planting 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.240 flowers or feeding a skunk because everybody lives there. She 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.240 has a pet skunk, baby, you would love it. Did 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.640 she get a d sacked or does she have the 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.040 sack and tap baby? I bet she has a second 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.840 there so that skunk can spray. Yeah, Loreta lens getting 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.160 sprayed by a scunk, questions planning, Well, it has squirted 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:54.880 before whatever whatever it's called. Are you serious? Your grandmother 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.599 the living legend? Loretta Lynn has a pet. When we 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.880 were little, she took a ferret out. I mean she's 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:04.040 at Ferrett squirrels. Yeah, she does. Well, she loves squirrel meat. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.439 So she has the pet squirrel and then she'll eat it. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:08.480 I don't know if it was a pet and then 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.199 she ate it. But what does she does? She bring 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.719 them on the bus? She did? I mean, did she 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.400 bring the skunk on the bus? No, Carol, where does 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.520 the skunk live under the house? Oh so it's like 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.000 living in the house. She just feeds it. She didn't 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:23.599 go buy it at the store and like raise it. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.880 Why do they sell skunks, Caroline? You can buy pet 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.880 skunks Okay, let me tell you something about Caroline. I'm 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.920 sure she told you when we all met her, she 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:34.160 would carry around a sugar gladder in her bra okay, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.679 and it would fly everywhere. I never saw it personally fly, 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.800 but I'm sure it did. I love Rodents. Me and 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.600 Loretta have that in common. Okay, so great. She has 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.680 a pet skun does she name it? No? Okay, let's 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.880 move on. Okay, So all the Lynn clan lives at 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.120 Loretta lens Zu Land, from Loretta to the twins, Patsy 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:57.120 and Peggy to your dad, Ernie, to you, that's Ryan 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.559 and your husband. Who else lives there? That is it? 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.959 The the twins don't live there anymore either. That's where 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.240 they grew up, and Patsy lived down the street forever. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.440 But now Peggy has an amazing farting called Madison Creek Farms. 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.640 She does c s A. I mean, she just's. You 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:12.720 should go see her at the farmer's market. You would 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.560 love it. And Patsy is managing me mall and producing 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.760 her records, and just so she's moved into producing it. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.640 Isn't she producing your record? She is? So you have 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.080 a new EP and I have a new ep out 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.600 right now called The Ranch. Oh what was it inspired? 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.520 But it was inspired by living on the ranch because 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:36.360 I recorded it um with London Tone Records out in Seattle. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.120 But since then we've moved back to the Ranch and 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:39.960 we're gonna get into all of that too, I can't. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.880 So it's called the Ranch. It has a due out 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.200 with me mall the Redman on there. It's Honky Tonk Girl, 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.120 the first song she ever recorded. And actually James House 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.760 who wrote Martina McBride's Beautiful Wing and a few other 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:55.480 songs I can't think of the top of my hand, 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.280 broken Broken Wing. Did I just call it beautiful Wing, 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.760 Broken Wing because they just check it just yeah, you 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:07.440 know Beau the Beautiful Broken Wing, so broken Wing, Yeah, 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.480 he did that. He produced that song and um the 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:15.000 song called us Love called Us Oh thank you? So okay. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.560 And also you're in a duo now with a Grammy 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.840 winning a guitar player. Yes, he um won a Grammy 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:26.280 for it's acoustic style picking. Yeah, I mean he's just great. 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.880 Eric team Stead and he'll play on the record. We'll 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.680 make it out here in Nashville, but um, yeah, we 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.160 tour all over the West Coast and people just love Eric. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.600 I mean, he is a star out there. It is 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.920 a whole different type of music that I'm used to 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.440 what he does with. He has a Now that music 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.640 is starting to it's just ramping up, you know, to 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.240 the good part. Yeah. Tink Stead and Rumble is is 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.640 who he's with, and they do this kind of I 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.720 don't know what kind of music it is. It's very 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.360 confusing to me, but with me, he just says country. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.760 We do a laurettoln tribute and just play around, yeah 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.560 a little. Do do you have a name? No, it's 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:07.280 just Taylor Lynn, No Caroline. I mean Taylor Lenn and 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:12.080 Eric Tingstead. I love this. Yeah, it's they say Taylor Lynn, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.480 granddaughter of Loretta Lynn with Grammy Award winning artists Eric Tingsten. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:18.760 Know that's a good It's all about how you present things. Hey, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.600 it's branded people like and his wives are booking agents. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.800 She's been a bookie. They got it all on the 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:28.040 family man. Yeah, might as well. So that's sweating an 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.120 there's well and we have the door closed because it's 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.080 so loud, but I mean it's really not healthy. Fine, 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.880 we're on the back of this, so I think there's 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:38.880 six of them and three of them are out in 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:40.760 l A all the time, and the other three are 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.560 here in Nashville and they just take them around to 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:47.040 big events and hosts the artist. It's really awesome. That's 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.040 super cool. So you grew up really country, you grew 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.320 let's start the beginning. You grew up in Nashville. I 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.920 grew up in a small town called Franklin, which is 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:58.120 about twenty miles south of Nashville. And you are Loretta's granddaughter. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.360 When did you realize that you have a living legend 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.920 for a grandmother? You know, I actually get that question 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.840 asked so lute lately for some reason. I don't know 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:08.760 why it's coming around now, but maybe because I'm doing 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.680 the Laurentlan tribute. Um. Not until I was about nineteen. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.439 My grandfather passed away and I moved in with Mima 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.160 into her house in Nashville, and so I started going 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.879 on the road with her professionally, and I had when 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:24.280 I was younger. I went on the road with her 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.560 all the time, but I never watched her. I always 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.520 went on the fair rods and we had these bands 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.840 so we could get first in line. When I started 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.560 watching the audience watch her for the first time in 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.760 my life. I thought, oh my god, they love her 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:42.600 like they love her. You could see it. I mean, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.399 it was like people watching Elvis or something, you know, 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.879 people crying and singing and moving. And it wasn't like 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.119 these big concerts that you see today where people are 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.439 jumping up and down and they're just so fired up 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.320 to beat a concert. It's about her and they love 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.479 her music and what she has to say. Yeah, I mean, 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.680 and she'll talk throughout her whole show and just people 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.600 just hanging on every word. It's unlike anything you've ever seen. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.640 And you know, back then, I didn't really know a difference. 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:11.800 I just knew that she was special. I knew she 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:13.680 was special as my grandmother anyway, and I knew she 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:18.240 was famous, but I didn't understand what she was until 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.080 that moment. Is that when you started singing. I started 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.600 singing when I was very small, so you've always I've 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.719 singing since i'l of the womb. Mama says, Okay, did 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:29.600 you just sing because you're sang it's in your it's 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:34.360 in your blood, yes, Or is it because your dad singing? Well, 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.680 I mean dad's a singer. My aunts are singers. My 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.920 cousins are singers singing. It was everywhere, It was everywhere, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:47.080 and who technique just went off, y'all and it's a party. 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:52.240 Um and Mama loved to sing too, and so we 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.200 would just sing all the time and dance around the 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.560 abba and you know, we just we're singing. That's just 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.600 what we did. When did you realize you wanted to 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.720 do it professionally and for your life? Always? Always, even 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.040 when even I think my mom has to put it 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.480 in my head, even before you knew Loretta was Loretta, 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:11.840 and this was in your always knew Loretta was Loretta. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.119 You asked, when I knew she was a living legend. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.000 So I always knew that she was famous and that 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.080 she was a big singer and she's saying and she 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:24.080 had fans. I just didn't know the extent to how 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.479 she moved people until I was older. But I always 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:31.200 wanted to be her, Okay, I mean always, But my 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.280 mom would always say, oh, you know, it's okay that 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.359 you've got evs and all that, because you're gonna be 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.800 a singer, And like, exactly, mom, I mean, my mom 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.159 was so crazy. Tell me about your childhood. What was 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.240 it like? Tell you about my childhood when it was like, 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:46.760 what do you I mean, what does that really mean? 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.119 Tell me what it was like growing up in a 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:54.359 very famous family. Well, mom and dad got divorced before 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.880 I was born, so I was born Julie ray Lynn. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.000 Oh yeah, you have changed your name. I was born 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.840 Julie ray Lynn and then about two years later they 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:08.639 changed it to Taylor Vanette Greer. How on earth did 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.080 that happen? So Granddaddy said, we can't keep changing her name, 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.159 so we're gonna call her poo Willie. Why did they 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.040 change your name to begin with? My mom was so 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.520 in love with my dad. She'd love to hear this interview. 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.600 Mama was so in love with daddy that she wanted 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.080 to get back at him. So she thought, I'll take 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.840 his rights away, I'll get married again, and I'll let 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.040 this guy adopted her. And John Greer was a great guy. 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.919 So someone completely adopted you a from your dad. Did 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.399 you get readopted by your dad? Yes? Well, I mean, 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:39.520 as your life is crazy, Well, John was never I 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:41.480 mean he was my dad for a while, but I 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.680 mean mom got divorced John Gred. Then she got divorced 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.080 and then got married again to Roger and did they 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:49.719 change her name when she married Roger. No, it remained 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:51.240 Taylor of At Greer. And then when I was eighteen, 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:55.199 I changed it to Taylor Vanette Lynn. Yeah how long 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:58.280 did it? Say? Where did Venette come from? Okay, so 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.640 get this, Paul Paul At his husband, my dad's dad. 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.760 His middle name is Vanette. So she kept it, but 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.600 without telling John Greer that I was still going to 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.679 be you know. Yeah, she slid it in the slide 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.400 in there. So your granddad, Papa said, we can't keep 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:18.200 changing her name. No, granddaddy, Granny's husband, Mama's daddy. So 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:23.159 he's gonna call you Willy legally well, no, baby, not 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:25.320 legally well. On his death bed, I mean I wrote 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:27.040 him a song, poo Willie. Now I had been on 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:29.680