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British songwriter Woodstock Taylor sharpened her skills at workshops with Kinks leader Ray Davies. Her intelligent and melodic songs are now attracting attention worldwide.

A former child singer and bar-room pianist, Woodstock had an early success in 1990 with her unaccompanied protest song, Sweet FA, which was picked up by BBC Radio One and used in a documentary about Politics and Pop, presented by Billy Bragg.

She took up the guitar in 1994 and was soon gigging regularly around the acoustic songwriter circuit and festivals in Scotland and Southern England, as well as opening for a variety of well-known artists. Woodstock Taylor's songs have also been heard on four out of the BBC's five terrestrial radio stations, plus the World Service and BBC Radio Scotland.

Her debut album, Road Movie, was produced by 60s blues hero Zoot Money and featured an all-star lineup of UK bluesmen including Cream lyricist Pete Brown. A follow-up is in pre-production with the same team.

Recently Woodstock's songs have been gaining new fans online with success at GarageBand.com and high chart placings around the web including a seven-month stint at No. 1 in a user-voted Blues chart at another music site. In addition, eight of her tracks have been included on independently released compilation CDs in the UK, Europe and the USA (with three more due soon), and her music has been featured on several podcasts.

Summer 2005 saw a new direction for Woody as she donned sequins and glitter for three cabaret shows a night as part of Assembly Theatre's Edinburgh Fringe programme, and the start of 2006 has seen her joining forces with classic British R&B outfit Thunderclap as a backing vocalist and featured artist.

Praised by the Scotsman newspaper for her "fine quality songs," Woodstock has been described by another reviewer as showing "a fine balance between rock/pop tradition and inventive lunacy!"