On Sunday, January 14, 1996 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, Gary Varner wrote:   
   > I've just (finally!) acquired a copy of Eric Taylor's 1981 LP   
   > "Shameless Love" (from Canadian River Music [806-372-4203 from 11am   
   > to 9pm CST], 4106 Tyler Street, Amarillo, TX  79110) and I'm   
   > wondering if anybody can tell me who exactly Nathan Dean Taylor is.   
   > On Taylor's 1995 CD he says at the end of the liner notes:   
   >   
   >      "The songs are in this box.  They are only songs.  My family   
   >      is the music.  The music is Martha Seymour Taylor, Alexandra   
   >      Seymour Taylor, and Nathan Dean Taylor."   
   >   
   > That's from 1995, and there's only one male in the picture   
   > underneath that language, a male who looks old enough to have been   
   > around in 1981 when Taylor wrote on the back of his first album:   
   >   
   >      "Jack Kerouac taught me that dreams are only real.   
   >      Nanci Griffith is proof that Jack was right.   
   >      Nathan Dean Taylor dreams for us all."   
   >   
   > Now my question is this:  Is Nathan Dean Taylor the guy in the   
   > picture on the 1995 CD, and what exactly is his relation to Eric   
   > Taylor?  A child of his with Nanci Griffith, or from a previous   
   > relationship, or a kid brother, or what?  And is the female on the   
   > right in the same picture his current wife?  The little girl in the   
   > center and the fellow on the left both seem to have Eric Taylor's   
   > nose, so I'm guessing he's the father of both.   
   >   
   > Thanks for any help anyone can be.   
   >   
   > And BTW, getting Taylor's old LP plus the BF Deal Sampler (with   
   > Nanci Griffith's first three recorded songs, none of which have   
   > ever been rerecorded or rereleased) from Canadian River Music was   
   > the best $20 I've spent in a long time!  It you contact them, say   
   > I said that!   
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