Taylor Guitars Taylor Swift Baby Taylor 6 String Acoustic Guitar

Once a talented preteen with a Taylor Guitar and big musical dreams, country pop superstar Taylor Swift has realized those dreams and then some, taking the world by storm over the last several years. Swift spent much of 2009 on her first headlining tour, in support of her multiplatinum sophomore release Fearless. A sold-out show at New York’s Madison Square Garden offered a compelling sign of her popularity, as her devoted young fans passionately sang along to every song, at one point giving the engaging singer-songwriter a four-minute standing ovation. In 2009 Swift celebrated the milestone success of 10 million total albums sold and over 20 million paid downloads (more than any artist in country music history). Before exiting her teenage years, she has already been honored with more music awards than most artists receive in a lifetime.

A prolific songwriter who says when she composes a tune she can hear it completely produced in her head, Swift wrote eight of the 13 tunes on Fearless herself, and co-wrote the rest. She also co-produced the record. Her diary-confessional lyrics, usually about relationships, tap the complex swirl of experiences and emotions that accompany the journey of growing up, and Swift has an uncanny ability to articulate those sentiments in a way that her peers can fully relate to. During an interview at the Taylor Guitars factory, Swift indirectly explained the power of her own songs in talking about what she likes about other people’s. “A song becomes my favorite song when [an artist] can say how I’m feeling better than I could," she reflected.

Taylor Guitars has enjoyed a warm relationship with Swift that traces back to when she was barely a teenager with a store-bought 615ce, but already the signs of a major songwriting talent in the making were there. Along the way, Swift’s Taylor collection has grown considerably. Her two main performance Taylors are her custom, all-koa PSGA (AA koa top, Florentine cutaway, “Taylor" fretboard inlay, passive ES) and a Swarovski crystal-encrusted GS6 that was originally decorated for a Video shoot. Her other models include a 615ce, maple PS-LTD with a tobacco sunburst and Florentine cutaway, a pink T5-S (with flake-top finish), a pair of K65ce’s, a custom maple Dreadnought with the “Living Jewels" koi fish inlay, a PSGA and a black SolidBody Classic.

Swift also fondly remembers her pint-size Baby Taylor as the perfect go-to guitar in between gigs during her early days of touring. “I used to sit in the back seat of the rental car while I was on my radio tour at 16, writing songs on my Baby Taylor guitar," she reflects. “I love the sound, and I love those memories."

Recalling how the compact, portable Baby was a great songwriting tool for a girl on the go, Swift in turn wanted to encourage others to express their feelings through music, which LED to the development of her signature model Taylor Swift Baby Taylor (TSBT).