HIGH HOPES
Taylor McCall
If acoustic hymns, weird gospel and “some real ripping guitar” floats your boat, climb aboard.
“I’d say I’m a mixture of Johnny Cash and Jimi Hendrix.”
HAD THINGS GONE to plan, Taylor McCall wouldn’t be a musician at all. The South Carolinian was intent on a career in the great outdoors, studying fisheries and wildlife management at Montana State University. But then he hit a crisis point. “I was in a state of depression, a very dark spot,” he explains. “And there wasn’t much to do in the middle of a Montana winter. So I picked up my guitar and just started letting some emotions out. I’d gotten to such a place in my life where I had nothing to lose.”