Oklahoma City-raised Joshua Taylor held his first beater guitar at the age of 13. Music lingered quietly in the background as Josh's obsessive private hobby well into his twenties, as he meandered in secret despondency through life in and after the Navy. He spent some tentative years in San Diego semi-regularly performing music while schooling and training to become a psychotherapist. Taylor's experiences leading to the making of his first album shocked him with sudden vitality and marked his full plunge into the musician's life.