As mentioned in the last Taylor Swift post, after striking up a lasting working relationship with Liz Rose, the two girls began meeting for two-hour writing sessions every Tuesday afternoon after school, and the fruits of these sessions were recorded as demos and burned to CD's to give out to talent agents. This was the point when Swift really started to blossom as a song-writer, as although her first song 'Lucky You' was written at the age of 12 with the help of Ronnie Cremer, she'd only completed about seven songs since then, but after teaming up with Rose they wrote over two dozen in 2003 alone. Two volumes of her acoustic demos were recorded in 2003, and while the first one is near impossible to find, songs from the second disc have surfaced over the years, and so it's possible to piece that one together, and I've used the title of the first demo as it sums up the content perfectly. It's housed in a cover featuring the 14-year old Swift, and despite the limited instrumentation on the songs, they shine out as a precursor of what was to come, especially when she got a band together and went into a studio just two years later for her next set of demos.
Track listing
01 My Turn To Be Me
02 I Used To Fly
03 Same Girl
94 Never Fade
05 Point Of View
06 Honey Baby
07 Spinning Around
08 Sugar
09 This Here Guitar
10 Live For The Little Things
11 That's Life
12 American Boy
13 Mandolin
14 4 U
15 In the Pouring Rain
16 Tennessee
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