My Life's Playlist - Softcover

Taylor, J.L.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798994227404

Publisher: Monkey Tales Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Some songs don't just play in the background — they pull you in.

For J.L. Taylor, it started with a Christmas playlist meant as a simple gift for his daughters. But the moment he began writing liner notes, the music dragged him somewhere he hadn't planned to go: back to a welfare hotel in El Paso, a dingy apartment in Michigan, a borrowed record player in his aunt's dirt-yard California house where he first heard Marty Robbins and felt, for four minutes, like his fractured life made sense.

My Life's Playlist is a memoir told in songs — the ones that found him at exactly the right (and wrong) moments. Growing up poor and perpetually uprooted, raised by a mother who crossed the border with almost nothing and a father who was Robert Redford handsome and just as hard to hold onto, Taylor learned early that music could be a door out of wherever you were. Sometimes it was the only one.

With warmth, humor, and hard-won honesty, this is a book about what songs actually do — not just soundtrack our lives, but carry the parts of them we can't say out loud.

For readers who believe the right song, at the right moment, can save you.

Edition details

• Publisher: Monkey Tales Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798994227404
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256