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Joy Beth Taylor

Joy Beth Taylor

Nashville country songwriter from Pelham, Alabama, co-writer of Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" and "Weren't for the Wind," published by Sony Music Publishing and Verse 2 Music.

Oct 5, 2026

11:26
Yeah.
11:26
Um, I just, I, I feel like I felt this calling when I was, you know, 16, and also I feel like songwriting's not my purpose.
11:32
You know, I feel like it, it's a vessel to help me get to my purpose, um, which is spreading what I believe, which is Jesus, and I feel like I can use that in such a way.
11:42
And, um, I feel like He called me at such a young age, and I felt it so deeply, and so I just followed that.
11:48
And I never knew what I was doing the whole time.

8 MINS LATER

19:44
Ah.
19:45
Um, so I lived, I split time between my grandparents and my parents growing up, and so I feel like I got a big taste of music because of both of them.
19:52
And, but I always gravitated towards, like, Willie Nelson and Patsy Cline.
20:19
Yeah
20:20
...
20:20
in the morning.
20:21
And, um, I think we were about to eat dinner or something.
20:25
Miranda had made some food in the Crockpot, and we were about to eat.
20:28
And, uh, Ella s- asked her about some story that she had heard, um, before they ever met.
20:36
And-

9 MINS LATER

29:59
Like, I don't even know what you'd call it.
28:26
Yeah.
28:26
And then she left after a year, so b- but we lived together when I first moved here in a one-bedroom and kinda did dorm-room style.
28:32
But I met a lot of people, like, going out and doing open-mic nights and stuff like that, and then I found out about rounds and started doing rounds, and to find open mi- mic nights, I just went online and, like, Googled, like-

6 MINS LATER

34:40
This is Nashville.
34:41
Depending on the weather.
34:43
I'm going to hell, baby, nobody knows when.
34:48
If it was a different time, might've been different in a different life.
34:54
Maybe that plane would never take off.

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