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Henry Taylor Shares the Resonant Single “Shoebox of Money”

from Forthcoming Sweet Thunder LP

Henry Taylor is a Kitchener-Waterloo-based singer-songwriter with five studio albums, gearing up to release his sixth entitled Sweet Thunder on October 25th. For more than a decade, he has been working with songwriting partner Monique Montgomery, and recently with award-winning songwriters in Nashville, Tennessee including Cory Lee Barker, Mark Barnowski, and Ri’chard Trest.


His music is considered Americana with a mix of rock, blues, folk, and country. The upcoming single “Shoebox of Money” is a narrative about freedom and justice, delivered in country rock ‘n’ roll fashion.

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I wrote “Shoebox of Money” with Monique and Ri’chard. We were in Nashville pitching MC1 and playing shows at Johnny Cash’s Storytellers and The Bluebird Cafe when Ri’chard invited us to his home studio in Old Hickory. We came up with this beauty after homemade beignets in his kitchen. It was inspired by a Neil Young lyric off the Greendale album, from the song “Carmichael,” in which someone talks about finding money in a shoe.. — Henry Taylor

Over the course of his career, Henry has played at some of the most iconic music venues in Canada, including the Mod Club, Lee’s Palace, the Rivoli, the Cameron House, the Dakota Tavern, the El Mocambo, and the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern.

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