Taylor’s voice is very much a one-of-a-kind and immediately recognizable.” I have a background in music, and I grew up in church choirs and majored in vocal performance myself, so I’m a voice guy. I felt like they had a knack for these sweeping melodies and catchy phrases. I found Taylor’s lyrics, in particular, to be very poetic and thoughtful and creative. “Their core songwriting really spoke to me. Coming from North Carolina, I grew up with a lot of folk music, classic rock ‘n roll, bluegrass and Americana,” he explained. “I’d been looking to work with another artist. Band manager Adam Sensenbrener (of Mick Management) soon caught wind of their music on a Spotify playlist and instantly connected to their work. Other songs like “All the Debts I Owe,” a road-weary tale of life’s heavy price, seemed to also connect in a big way – the song currently boasts 14 million streams. With the release of 2016’s self-titled debut record, they flexed not only a tenacious handling of traditional folk and bluegrass music but married their tight-knit playing with Meier’s incredibly powerful, vivid and visceral songwriting. “Ohio” had been added to a batch of other Spotify playlists, too, and the crashing streaming numbers sent the song into the Viral 50 chart. It was like, ‘Whoa! Something’s going on!’” “One morning, we woke up it was at 5,000 plays. “That song is our absolute champion,” Meier told American Songwriter. In early 2016, the duo uploaded their plucky stunner “Ohio” to Spotify, and things almost immediately took off.
Little did they know what was about to happen. Out of Athens, Ohio, Taylor Meier and his buddy Evan Westfall were two ordinary dudes playing open mic nights and local house shows. CAAMP is poised to become a household name.
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