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the Roadhouse

Let me tell you, if my brother hadn't been so stubborn to do everything I did, my musical abilities and comprehension would have been limited, at best. Mark just has the persistence to just keep on, even when things got ugly, we shared the drive that it takes to get back up, dust off, and try again. Yep, genuine sibling rivalry pumped the energy to get our music tight and love it, or love making it...together. Yep, he's almost the most head-strong person I know (haha). He got a set of bongo drums for Christmas in 1962 (I think), and I got a guitar... a real one! And that's where Taylors Roadhouse was born, ...a little 3-bedroom house on Leo Lane, down the street from Haywood Elementary school, in Nashville 37211. Our father, Tom Taylor, had that school in mind when he bought the house, because there are six of us kids. ... all went there. My sister, Ann took some flute lessons, and we encouraged her to join up with us, and we all learned the songs we needed to learn to be able to get out and play for fun, and entertain an audience at the same time. RAINBOW SKATING RINK, behind (then) Tusculum Music, on Nolensville Road, was more than just an ordinary skating rink...it was a real paying gig! A dream, come true! We were so young, and happy. ..it's no wonder...we made music...together!! And...an even bigger dream could possibly come true.

Tom Taylor wanted to start a family business, and if it turned out that the type business wasn't in printing, it MIGHT be...in MUSIC !!

But, let me start at the beginning, and I will tell the story of how it all came about.

We were raised on the Southeast side, ...first, in Woodbine, which was originally known as Flatrock, the Cherokee name for their tribal meeting area. Ancestry includes Cherokee and Scots Irish, primarily. A strong family heritage, the Taylor ancestors will be described and featured later in this blog. We had Christian parents, Thomas Edward and Dorothy Ann Taylor. There are six of us siblings, 3 boys and 3 girls. Huge family influence by Grandmother Lorena Taylor, and Grandfather, Thomas Edward Taylor Jr., who lived in the Vine Hill community, just a couple blocks from Rains Avenue Church of Christ. After a worship service, the family gathered at their house, where we played Red Rover, Simon Says & Hide and Seek with our cousins, who were also visiting. Pappy worked at the railroad yard, so he would come home from work with his clothes covered with dirt, coal dust and paint. Grandma worked in her family's mattress factory as a seamstress. During the depression, they were barely able to provide for their eight kids. Dad said they would have beans for dinner one night, and fried potatoes for supper the next night ...and on a rare occasion, they would have beans and fried potatoes, both, on the same night. Dad loved to tell us that story, how they survived the Depression era. Dad enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. and served during the Korean Conflict, as Staff Sergeant. After the Service, he attended and graduated from Watkins Institute of Graphic Arts, and worked as Press Room Foreman for Curley Printing Company for 20 years. Before I came along, Mom worked at Standard Candy Company, where they make the Goo-Goo Cluster candy bars and King Leo peppermint stick candy. When I came into the world, she became full-time mother and homemaker. I learned to sing with Momma in worship services at Rains Avenue Church of Christ. First real guitar at age 6, and started learning to play, with the help of a Mel Bay book. By age 10, I could play the guitar and sing a song or two.

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