Jules Taylor
Dark Americana | Texas Country | Bluegrass Flatpicking
A South Texas songwriter shaped by hard-won clarity, Jules Taylor brings the precision of a craftsman and the soul of a witness. He turns rowdy bars into listening rooms as he performs Texas favorites alongside his originals, written in the traditions of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark.
With a career spanning Nashville, New York’s Catskill Mountains, and the Texas Gulf Coast, Taylor has built a body of work distinguished by literary storytelling, an unmistakable voice, and bluegrass-rooted flatpicking. His performances bring a deep connection to the Texas songwriting tradition to stages ranging from theaters to crowded honky-tonks.
VIDEO EXAMPLES
Tony Rice Cover
Likes of Me
Tom Waits Cover
Blue Valentine
Jules Taylor Original
Soul That Bleeds
Fan Footage from Corpus Christi
Four Albums Since 2016
Alone and Solo V1 · 2016
Recorded live at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City.
Mountain Time · 2018
Recorded in Woodstock, New York.
Whiskey Clear · 2024
Recorded live in the studio with pedal steel guitarist Jon Light.
The Siren and the Wordsmith · 2025
Recorded in Rockport, Texas, featuring Grammy Award-winning pedal steel guitarist John Macy and fiddler Chisum Mills.
"His vocals are as weathered as an old highway sign and as inviting as your favorite mom and pop diner... Overall, the collection is the musical equivalent of the Great American Novel: a work that captures what it means to be human – the shortcomings and the triumphs, the heartaches and the joys." - Paula Cummings, NYSMusic.com
"Taylor’s economy of melody and intuitive feel for the shape of verses and phrases recalls such heroes as Dylan and Van Zandt. Despair, dissolution, and an occluded sweetness are the very DNA of these dark-side Americana ballads.” - John Burdick, Hudson Valley One
Booking Details
Booking at a Glance
Based in Alice, Texas
Available for bookings throughout Texas. Regularly travels within an hour of Alice and welcomes engagements three to four hours away or farther by arrangement.
Solo or Duo
Book Jules Taylor solo or as a duo with Chisum Mills on fiddle and harmonica.
Performance Length
Comfortable performing three- or four-hour solo engagements, as well as shorter concert sets, opening slots, 90-minute focused listening room sets, and festival appearances. Set lengths and breaks can be arranged to suit your event.
Sound Reinforcement Available
Can provide sound reinforcement for the performance. (2 X 12" Powered Speakers)
Music
Dark Americana, Texas country, folk, and bluegrass-rooted guitar playing. Sets combine original songs with familiar favorites and can be tailored to a listening room, bar, restaurant, private event, or festival.
Selected Venues, Festivals & Showcases
Venues
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Rockwood Music Hall — New York City
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Colony Woodstock — Woodstock, New York
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House of Rock — Corpus Christi, Texas
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The Post OG — Orange Grove, Texas
Festivals & Showcases
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O+ Music Festival - Kingston, NY
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Corpus Christi Songwriter Festival
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Rockport Songwriter Festival
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Terlingua Music Bash
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Southwest Regional Folk Alliance - Austin, TX
Booking Inquiries
615-480-8339
Please include your venue or event name, location, preferred date, performance length, solo or duo preference, sound requirements, and proposed budget.
Artist Bios
Short
Jules Taylor is a South Texas singer-songwriter whose dark Americana draws on country, folk, and bluegrass. With a weathered voice, bluegrass-rooted flatpicking, and songs about love, grief, and working-class life, he carries the storytelling traditions of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark into his own distinctly personal territory. His live sets bring together original songs and Texas favorites, delivered with warmth, grit, and plainspoken honesty.
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A South Texas songwriter shaped by hard-won clarity, Jules Taylor brings the precision of a craftsman and the soul of a witness. His music moves through dark Americana, Texas country, folk, and blues, carried by a weathered voice and bluegrass-rooted flatpicking.
Working in the storytelling traditions of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Taylor writes about love, grief, mortality, and working-class life. His songs find their footing in everyday details while asking difficult questions about the world around them.
His career has taken him through Nashville, New York’s Catskill Mountains, and back to his native South Texas. He has released four albums since 2016, including The Siren and the Wordsmith, recorded with pedal steel guitarist John Macy and fiddler Chisum Mills.
A 2024 inductee into the Corpus Christi Songwriters Hall of Fame, Taylor performs original songs alongside Texas favorites, bringing sharp storytelling, bluegrass-rooted guitar work, and a deep connection to the Texas songwriting tradition to listening rooms, theaters, and crowded honky-tonks.
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A South Texas songwriter shaped by hard-won clarity, Jules Taylor brings the precision of a craftsman and the soul of a witness. Drawing from Texas country, folk, blues, and bluegrass, his dark Americana pairs a weathered voice with bluegrass-rooted flatpicking and a storyteller’s attention to detail.
Taylor’s songs explore love, grief, mortality, faith, and working-class life. In the traditions of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, he approaches those subjects through recognizable people, places, and contradictions. His literary sensibility gives the songs depth, while his plainspoken delivery keeps them close to the listener.
Born and raised in South Texas, Taylor developed his craft through years spent in Nashville and New York’s Catskill Mountains before returning to Texas in 2022. His four albums document a musician willing to explore different arrangements while keeping the song at the center.
Alone and Solo V1 (2016) captured fourteen songs performed and live-looped at New York City’s Rockwood Music Hall, released as both an album and a performance video. Mountain Time (2018) expanded into Southern rock and Americana, while Whiskey Clear (2024), recorded with steel guitarist Jon Light, returned to the immediacy of two musicians playing together without overdubs.
The Siren and the Wordsmith (2025), recorded in Rockport, Texas, at Coastal Bend Music, features Grammy Award-winning pedal steel guitarist John Macy and fiddler Chisum Mills. Its songs draw on personal loss, literary imagery, and existential questioning to explore the complicated persistence of love and memory.
A 2024 inductee into the Corpus Christi Songwriters Hall of Fame, Taylor performs original songs alongside Texas favorites, bringing sharp storytelling, bluegrass-rooted guitar work, and a deep connection to the Texas songwriting tradition to listening rooms, theaters, and crowded honky-tonks.
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