Chip Taylor

Chip Taylor will always be best known for the songs he's written, but he also had a prolific career as a recording artist, playing a confident and committed blend of country and contemporary folk. Taylor penned three songs that were oft-recorded perennials – "Wild Thing" (first made a hit by the Troggs), "Angel of the Morning" (Merrilee Rush cut the best-known version) and "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" (memorably covered by Janis Joplin). Recording was a sideline for Taylor in the 1970s, cutting LPs for Buddah, Warner Bros., and Columbia, but after returning to music in the...