Interview with Taylor Made
©2011 By Bronson Herrmuth
Brian Duckworth, Wendy Williams, and Greg Duckworth, are 3 siblings from Clarksburg, West Virginia, who's distinctive vocal harmonies set them apart and make them stand out when you hear them on the radio or see them perform live. Taylor Made has opened shows for Sugarland, Randy Travis, Charlie Daniels, Heidi Bloomfield, and perform regionally at fairs and festivals and clubs. Their last single, "Heavy Duty Beauty", went to #51 in Music Row and to #1 on the Indie World Country chart. Produced by Dale Morris and Dan Mitchell, their new single is called "Quiet Kind Of Crazy". When I got together with them here in Nashville at the Tracking Room for this interview, they were in town preparing for their upcoming radio station promotional tour.
You can listen to this entire interview: Pt. 1 of 2 (2.3 MB) Pt. 2 of 2 (2.6 MB)
I asked them how long they'd been singing together and Greg said, "We grew up in a little Pentecostal church, actually there were 7 siblings. We grew up singing when the little blue haired ladies used to have to help us hold the microphone. We were that small, so we've been singing together our whole lives. We put together the trio for the Colgate Country Showdown back in West Virginia. We won the local competition and then it just built from there. People wanted to hear us and one of Dale Morris's associates was in West Virginia and heard us do a benefit concert. He brought us down, our second trip to Nashville was to record at Fireside Studios. Then we met Dale after that, worked with Dan Mitchell, and here we are."
Wendy added, "We literally played on our back porch. Mom being single, she raised us. All of us either sang and/or played an instrument growing up, and that included singing harmony. She would go out on the porch and take a guitar out there and next thing you know, as long as we were old enough to walk out there, there we went. We'd sit and sing and even the neighbors would yell from the porches and just come down and join in or just listen. So we've been doing it since as long as we can remember." Brian said, "Wendy and I have been playing in bands since she was 12 and I was 16."