Taylor Swift - Unreleased And Acoustic (RARE + Color)

Unoff. release.

Title: Taylor Swift - Unreleased And Acoustic
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 2003-2006, Country, Acoustic Country Pop, Reading, Pennsylvania 8/26
Condition: New (BC) | Members: Taylor S (89' - )
Cultural Facts:

1. Family Ties: Swift’s beginnings were financially comfortable rather than a rags-to-riches story. Her father Scott worked in wealth management at Merrill Lynch, her mother Andrea had worked in mutual-fund marketing, and the family was able to relocate to Tennessee around Taylor’s ambitions. Scott later became a small early investor in Big Machine Records. Her story is a useful reminder that talent and hard work can coexist with real family privilege, stability, and parents willing to reorganize their lives around a child’s dream. (People.com)

2. Recording Story: As a teenager, Swift walked away from an RCA development deal because she feared waiting until adulthood would make the songs she was writing about high-school life feel outdated. She wanted to record her own experiences while she was still living them, which gives her early acoustic and unreleased material an unusually literal teenage perspective. (Wikipedia)

3. Public Service: Swift later gave $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, helping create the Taylor Swift Education Center, a 7,500-square-foot space devoted to classrooms, songwriting programs, art, recording experiences, and music education for young people. (countrymusichalloffame.org)