Paula Jo Taylor
- Actress
Nashville based Paula Jo Taylor is an acclaimed lead guitar player who performs with her daughter Amanda and their Mama Tried Band. She was featured in Guitar World Magazine as their pick for top 10 female guitarist and performed live at their 2019 summer NAMM show booth in Nashville. A video of Paula Jo playing guitar at the 2017 summer NAMM has gone viral on the Internet.
Nikki Sixx, bass player for Motley Crue, coined her "Viral Granny Guitarist" and featured her on his L.A. radio station Sixx Sense. The video garnered over 6 million views and still climbing. It has been shared by Guitar World Magazine, Guitar Player Magazine, Society of Rock, NAMM and hundreds of iHeart Radio Stations across the country. It broadcast on television stations nationwide as well as the Glenn Beck show.
Articles have been written about her in Society of Rock and many others.
From the age of seven, Paula Jo began performing with her dad, Joe Taylor's live weekly radio show. She has also performed large concert venues opening for legends such as Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb, George Jones, Hank Williams Jr. and numerous acts.
She co-hosted a television variety show with her father, Joe Taylor, broadcast weekly on PBS. Paula Jo also writes comedy songs cut by major label artists and comedy DJ's Bob and Tom, among others.
She has played guitar behind Jeannie C. Riley, Tanya Tucker, Blake Shelton and others and has performed with Cledus T. Judd on a TV pilot show for Comedy Central as well as the Warner Brothers Showcase stage in Nashville during CMA Fest.
Nikki Sixx, bass player for Motley Crue, coined her "Viral Granny Guitarist" and featured her on his L.A. radio station Sixx Sense. The video garnered over 6 million views and still climbing. It has been shared by Guitar World Magazine, Guitar Player Magazine, Society of Rock, NAMM and hundreds of iHeart Radio Stations across the country. It broadcast on television stations nationwide as well as the Glenn Beck show.
Articles have been written about her in Society of Rock and many others.
From the age of seven, Paula Jo began performing with her dad, Joe Taylor's live weekly radio show. She has also performed large concert venues opening for legends such as Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb, George Jones, Hank Williams Jr. and numerous acts.
She co-hosted a television variety show with her father, Joe Taylor, broadcast weekly on PBS. Paula Jo also writes comedy songs cut by major label artists and comedy DJ's Bob and Tom, among others.
She has played guitar behind Jeannie C. Riley, Tanya Tucker, Blake Shelton and others and has performed with Cledus T. Judd on a TV pilot show for Comedy Central as well as the Warner Brothers Showcase stage in Nashville during CMA Fest.
