Taylor Sims

I officially started my professional career in music in 2004 at the age of 19 but my path to that moment started a while before that. At the age of 16, I started playing guitar and gave up nearly all other pursuits. No more football, no more sports, no more clubs. All guitar. Fast-forward two years and I was off to college to study commercial music at South Plains College in Levelland, TX. There it would become clear that a career as a professional musician and songwriter was the only path for me. My first band 'Spring Creek' was formed in my graduating year and we started playing gigs in and around the Texas Panhandle. We were a bluegrass band and Texas is not a bluegrass state and we needed a new scene. So the band packed up and headed for Boulder, Co.

We began touring in and around Colorado as well as the greater West, making a decent name for ourselves as we went. In 2007 we entered the Telluride Bluegrass Festival band competition and won first place there and then two months later we entered the Rockygrass Festival band competition and won first there as well. We were the only band before or since to win both in the same year. That feat gave us a great deal of bluegrass industry clout and set us on a rocket trajectory for the national scene which of course led to much more touring and a rigorous schedule over the next five/six years. We played 150-200 dates a year in that time and like the tires and transmission on the church van, it wore us out. We made four full-length albums with one of those being released on the historic label Rebel Records and other awards and accolades to our credit. In 2011 I won 'Americana Song of the Year' for a song I penned on our fourth album. Near the end of 2012, we had all had about as much as we could take of life on the road and decided to call in quits and the band Spring Creek was no more.

I then joined my wife's already successful band called Bonnie & the Clydes since our dream had always been to join forces and intertwine our musical careers. She is so fiercely talented and driven so we work very well together most of the time and what's better than sharing the work with someone you love? That band has consistently grown, won multiple awards and we have become solidified on the Colorado music scene that we love so much.