Toronto singer-songwriter and 4x JUNO nominee Julian Taylor is unveiling a new studio album, the genre-spanning work of rich inner reflection that is Pathways. 

Co-produced by Taylor and Colin Linden (Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn, Blackie and The Rodeo Kings), Pathways finds Taylor embracing a “simplify” mantra in his writing while showcasing his range as a writer and performer on jazz and blues inflected tracks (“Sixth Line Road,” “Running Away”), nimble and vulnerable folk (“Ain’t Life Strange,” “Weighing Down,”), and the album’s stately title track, a ballad featuring none other than Grammy award-winning songstress, Allison Russell.

Taylor collaborated with co-writer Tyler Ellis to develop the album’s focus track, 

“Love Letters,” a poetic and earnest folk reflection on unrequited love and how people all throughout time have poured their hearts out and written letters to people that they care about.

Gentle accordion, upright bass, and mandolin provide the track with a warm and nostalgic atmosphere, reflecting the deep history of vulnerable expressions of love which the song mines.
On this record, I’m sharing in the struggles we all face, and I’m trying to make it better through these songs. – Julian Taylor