Nashville's Taylor Zachry is getting set to release his debut solo album, aptly
titled Songs I've Had Forever. He plays in the beloved Nashville band Blank Range and
has toured with artists like Courtney Marie Andrews, Erin Rae, Yola, Rayland Baxter,
and Jonny Fritz to name a few. In 2020, he teamed up with producer Ryan McFadden
(Torres, Meg Elsier, Parker Millsap) to start recording his own songs. What started as a
straightforward Nashville indie-folk record morphed over the following years into an
exploration of Taylor himself, both the person and the artist.

Over the course of making this album, both Ryan and Taylor faced some of life's most
defining events: family deaths, marriage, falling in and out of love, truly staring in the
face of life's biggest and toughest truths. In the words of Ryan, "Nothing but truth holds
up after five years of life’s tumbling."

The resulting album, Songs I've Had Forever, is truth at its core. It is a record that feels
as if it arrived from somewhere else - dug up from a mysterious basement somewhere
or one that magically appeared in your collection. It is for fans of Neutral Milk Hotel, The
Microphones, Sparklehorse: these enigmatic projects that feel like a window into
something more.

Taylor has become known in circles of Nashville for his unpredictable and nearly
indescribable live shows that blend songs from his record with semi-improvised and
intensely refreshing performances using cassette tape loops, a Barbie karaoke
machine, and other objects.

In the words of producer Ryan McFadden:
"The record began to sound unearthed more than constructed. We no longer knew the
guys who built it and therefore we could love it without ego, and judge it without ego, the
work had nothing much to do with us. Feeling the freedom in that, we wondered how to
separate from a creation in real time, to have objectivity without distance. Taylor started
trying to answer that question in his live shows. Not improvisation but somehow to be an
immediate audience member to his own performance. What he learned from those
shows he brought back to the studio. We put on the original tapes, worked intuitively and found a path that allowed us to finish the record."

Songs I've Had Forever has the potential to be indie canon. The kind of record you
return to again and again, that changes and ages with you and always offers something
more.

It's maybe best summed up by fellow Nashville musician and producer, Jerry Bernhardt
(Courtney Marie Andrews, Erin Rae, Ron Gallo), in a note to Taylor after he first heard
the record: "It speaks to all that is holy to me in music...So natural, absolutely next level.
You have created such a world with this collection of songs. A bent, hallucinogenic,
enchanting and inviting world."

Taylor has opening dates on an upcoming Courtney Marie Andrews tour in Spring of
2026 in both the US and EU.