TAYLOR PIE

“NOBODY FAMOUS”
A feature documentary, directed by Elizabeth Ahlstrom

Set against the backdrop of a socially and politically volatile sixties, Nobody Famous traces the quick rise and steady fall of sixties folk/pop trio, The Pozo Seco Singers. Recounted through the current day lens of Taylor Pie (at the time fresh from her first year in College), we watch as a young woman navigates the choices and responsibility that come with sudden success.

A chance meeting backstage at a local Texas hootenanny between Susan Taylor (aka Taylor Pie), Donnie Williams and Lofton Kline sparked what would become The Pozo Seco Singers. A South Texas radio hit “Time” and a chance meeting with a record label executive quickly has the group courted by and subsequently signed with Columbia records. Following soon after the group is taken under the wings of infamous artist manager Albert Grossman, of Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin fame.

By the late sixties, folk music’s zeitgeist gives way to the heady rhythm of rock and roll. Ironically, it is the signing of Janis Joplin by Columbia and Albert Grossman (the group’s own label and manager) that leads to the demise of not only folk as popular music, but with it any chance of further success for the folk/pop trio.

While fellow member Don Williams goes on to become one of the most successful country music artists of the 20th century, Susan shies away from fame and fortune, instead choosing to “go where the folk wind blows”, embracing her own path, her own unique artistry and her own individual identity in the process.