Welcome to the PuffBunny Records Website!

Celebrating 15 YEARS of PuffBunny Records!
A folk legacy label capturing classic performances that are one of a kind moments in time!

Welcome to the PuffBunny Records Website!

 

Come on in… stay a while and enjoy some of our amazing music.

About Us…

In the 1960’s, a relationship was formed between a fan and a folk icon. Kathy Harrison, now president of PuffBunny Records, was a fan of the national folk pop trio “Pozo Seco Singers” and acquainted with group member, Susan Taylor (aka Taylor Pie). Fast forward a few decades, and these two W.B. Ray High School alumni friends are now the owners and operators of PuffBunny Records.

PuffBunny Records’ mission is to capture one of a kind performances in time, either from live onstage performances in front of an audience or in a studio environment; to preserve and make them available to the public.

Featured PuffBunny Happenings

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Taylor Pie on the “Southern Reckoning” Podcast

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MusicRow Magazine’s featured article on Taylor Pie’s documentary, “Nobody Famous”

PuffBunny on YouTube…

So much of what we do at PuffBunny is visual, and we’d love to have you subscribe to our YouTube channel so you don’t ever miss a thing! Subscribe now!

We open our hearts…
So filled up and loving life
All comes back to us!

Kathryn N. Harrison

President, PuffBunny Records

Our Goings-On…

Here at PuffBunny, we do all we can to both create, capture and promote one-of-a-kind musical events, as well as serving as full-service record label for our roster of artists.

YouTube Channel

So much of what we do at PuffBunny is visual, and we’d love to have you subscribe to our YouTube channel so you don’t ever miss a thing! Subscribe now!

Artists

Here at PuffBunny, we are supporters of all artists, whether we work with them or not!  Click here to learn more about both “ours” and those we just generally love!

Liberty Arts

Liberty Arts House Concerts is an official Folk Alliance International sanctioned venue and we are proud to be a sponsor of the music they bring to their community in Liberty, TN! 

Store

Not only do we have some aweosme albums for sale, but we have shirts, hats and other great merchandise as well!  Click here to gets yours and support everything we do!

Taylor Pie

Pie (as her friends call her) was born in east Texas as Susan Taylor and spent most of her summers with grandparents in Longview listening to her mom and her 3 aunts harmonize on church hymns.

At 4, her family moved to Oklahoma and at 9, she studied guitar with Dick Gordon in Tulsa. Singing seemed to come naturally for Pie, but she was so shy that she could only sing songs to the family while standing behind grandma’s kitchen door. With Dick’s help, by the time Pie turned 10, she was performing at recitals and concerts that Gordon produced. Elvis Presley was her favorite singer to emulate, and one night at the Tulsa IOOF hall as she was singing, “Love Me”, she stopped, grabbed the microphone like she’d seen Elvis do, and a woman in the front row squealed loudly! The woman  thought it would thrill the young songster, but instead, it scared her so badly that Gordon had to step in to help Pie recover so she could finish the song!

Pozo Seco Singers

In 1962 Pie moved to Corpus Christi, TX where at the age of 17, she formed a folk group called the Pozo Seco Singers with Don Williams and Lofton Kline. When Kline was drafted, Ron Shaw replaced him and the group continued their success with national television appearances on shows like Mike Douglas, Joey Bishop and Pat Boone. The group’s three album releases on Columbia Records, as well as one on Certron Records, have become collector items.  Their biggest single was “Time” written by Michael Merchant, which hit #1 in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston and floated in the Billboard charts for over a year.

Pie’s first solo album, recorded in 1972 as Susan Taylor was for JMI Records, a Jack Clements’ label in Nashville.  PuffBunny re-released it as, “Taylor Pie aka Susan Taylor: Finally Getting Home” in 2013, and added it to the list of other solo releases, “Long Ride Home,”  “Jubal,” “So Little Has Changed,” “Live @ Hondo’s on Main” (with Eben Wood), and a recent offering, “Songswarm Vol 1” which she not only performs on, but produced.

After over 50 years of traveling around as a folk minstrel, Pie’s favorite comfort zone is to sit and sing a few for friends, which she often does at Liberty Arts, a house concert series she started in her local community, as well as select listening venues around the country.

Ruby Lovett

“It’s A Hard Life”

Mainstream country music had moved on a bit too much for Ruby Lovett’s more real sound by the time Curb Records released her album at the latter end of the ’90s. She was another casualty of being too country for country. A single didn’t fare all that well on the charts and, as is the way all too often, Ruby Lovett didn’t get another chance.

However, with It’s A Hard Life, her return is triumphant. Stripped back in a mainly acoustic fashion that is frequently almost bluegrassy in instrumentation, the restrained production allows her voice to shine in a way that most Americana singers can only dream of. The fiddle player deserves high praise, if only for his intro on Where I’m Standing Today which is a redemptive gem of a very special song indeed. The higher register of Lovett’s voice suits it down to the ground while the snatches of mandolin and steel made me hope this waltz was never going to end. There are shades of Bobbie Gentry in Home Sweet Honky Tonk, and whilst it’s presented with a ton of Dobro the song could work just as well in an out and-out honky tonk arrangement implied by the title.

If Dolly herself hasn’t heard Straight From My Heart she really needs to, but for that matter she should hear the whole album. If it’s stories you’re after they’re here in abundance. There must be any number of young singers who’d give their best pair of vintage custom-made boots to make an album like this.

Raised poor, Ruby Lovett started singing early and she sings with authority, grit, and a genuine appreciation of what a “Hard Life” actually means. Beautifully produced, with perfect performances by every musician as well as Lovett’s fabulous vocals, this is about as real as it gets and will be welcomed by fans of Appalachian, bluegrass, and Americana as it will those of real rootsy country. Ruby Lovett says her music is “raw and unpolished.” It is that, but at the same time this album is a spectacular return.

~ Written by Kelly Gregory for Country Music People Magazine – the world’s longest-running and most respected country music magazine, published monthly.

Songswarm – Vol. 1

The title from the recent Songswarm release is a noun. By definition, a Songswarm is “two or three performers practicing their art or act of improvisational accompaniment on each other’s original songs in front of an audience.” 

PuffBunny Records ups the ante for the pot of tracks collected on Songswarm, Vol. 1, offering six songwriters with two tracks each on the release. Taylor Pie, the catalyst and producer for the project, plays on the album as well as surrounding herself with top tunesmiths from the Lone Star State. Songswarm, Vol.1 presents music from Texans such as Michael O’Connor, Jeff Plankenhorn, George Ensle, Greg Whitfield, and Jack Saunders.

The players offer their music as they back each other instrumentally on the album.

Taylor Pie (Susan Taylor) has a resume in music going back to the 1960’s as a part of the Pozo Seco Singers who took their hit “Time” to the top of the charts. She fronted the City Country band in New York City in the 1970’s and traveled as a solo act during the 1980’s. 

Throughout her career, the art of the song was at the heart of what Taylor Pie found important about playing. She found a home in the Songswarm movement feeling that it ‘has become my favorite way to walk on a stage’. Songswarm, Vol. 1 offers two tracks from Taylor Pie as she closes out the compilation with “Peace Within” joined by George Ensle and Jack Saunders , and brings in help for “Oh, Mandolin” from Michael O’Connor and Jeff Plankenhorn to form a trio of mandolins to back her song. Greg Whitfield whispers the story of a guitar born in Nazareth, Pennsylvania with “Martin’s Song” as George Ensle strums folk blues for “Knee Deep in a River” and Jack Saunders tells the tale of a troubadour in “This Highway”. The gathering of musicians presents the gentle picking of Michael O’Connor, a South Texas Walk of Fame recipient singing his “Homesick Boy” and a hard luck story with a rambling rhythm called “Throw a Nickel”. Jeff Plankenhorn brings his own guitar creation (The Plank) into Songswarm, Vol. 1, relating a tale of temptation with “Trouble Find Me” and welcomes Taylor Pie on mandolin for a metaphoric story titled, “The Mess”.

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Liberty Arts

Liberty Arts House Concerts  is an official Folk Alliance International sanctioned venue and PuffBunny Records is proud to be a sponsor of the acoustic “unplugged” house concerts they put on in Liberty, Tennessee.

Watch Our Recent Livestream Event!

 

Live with Taylor Pie, Tia McGraff and Tommy Parham…

"Epic! I enjoyed it tremendously..."

Donna T.

"A wonderful night of music!"

Susan H.

"Absolute JOY walking in the door and into all the lovely people and fantastic artists!"

Melody C.

Mailing Address:

PuffBunny Records, Inc.
216 East Austin Street
Fredericksburg, TX 78624

 

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