Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Her audition: Taylor Brashears, 21, of Nashville, Tenn., decided to audition with the Loretta Lynn classic “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man).” Taylor displays lots of sass in the performance and gets Adam Levine and Pharrell Williams to turn their chairs. But country coach Blake Shelton waits until near the end of the performance to turn around. Still, he manages to lure in another country singer.

Her background: Taylor describes herself as a country singer who’s always on the move. After all, she’s the cashier on the food truck. But while that’s her day job, she says her real passion is music. She got into music around age 8 after seeing Sara Watkins perform. Naturally, violin and fiddle lessons soon followed. Eventually, she began singing as well. She started a band after high school and describes her sound as retro-country. Now that she’s out of school, she says she has the time to put everything into her music “and make it something big.”

What the show didn’t show: On Facebook, she describes her genre as bluegrass/alternative. That band she formed out of high school was a “jazzy roots ensemble” called Supple Station Trio. But in 2011, Taylor released a five-track self-titled EP under her own name. You can check out one of those tracks, “Carolina Sunshine Girl,” in video form below. Full-lenth versions of two of the other tunes — “Southern Nightmare” and “On the Moon” — are on her Reverbnation page. In the spring of 2013, she started working on a full-length album that apparently is still a work in progress. According to her Facebook bio, her songwriting is marked by “enchanting melodies and a knack for the sinister.” You can hear snippets of several other Taylor songs on Soundcloud. She chose to join Team Blake “because I wanted to stick to my roots, but I know Blake also isn’t super cookie cutter. I’m really excited to be working with him.”

On iTunes: The 2011 EP and her audition song, “Ain’t Woman Enough.”

Keeping up with Taylor:
Twitter: @taylorbrashears
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“Louise”

“My Carolina Sunshine Girl”

“Oh The Vampyre”