THE SIREN & THE WORDSMITH: Album Release Show

Join us for an exclusive evening in celebration of The Siren and the Wordsmith, the latest release from South Texas songwriter Jules Taylor. Hosted at the iconic House of Rock, this one-night engagement will feature the complete performance of the album — performed in its entirety by Jules Taylor, with John Macy on pedal steel and Chisum Mills on fiddle.

Special guest Emma James will open the night with her captivating voice and singular style, setting the stage for a performance steeped in craft, storytelling, and the enduring power of song.

Gather with us on September 11th, 2025, at 7 PM at House of Rock, Downtown Corpus Christi for an intimate concert experience worthy of the occasion.

About Jules Taylor:

Jules Taylor writes songs like someone returning from a long war – clear-eyed, blunt, and unafraid to name the wreckage left behind. Each lyric is whittled to its essential grain: a lover lost to cirrhosis, existential doubt and confrontation, and working people caught in larger machinery. His music reads like frontline dispatches on grief, love, and class struggle. His lyrics speak to those still willing to carry what can’t be fixed.

A South Texas songwriter shaped by hard-won clarity, Taylor brings the precision of a craftsman and the soul of a witness. There’s nothing ornamental in his writing, only the weight of what’s real, delivered with the stripped-down honesty of someone who’s lost more than he lets on.

Behind the plainspoken delivery lies a writer deeply influenced by the heavyweights of moral and existential thought. His moral lens owes as much to Sartre, Marcuse, and Dante as it does to the dust-blown fatalism of Cormac McCarthy. Where most Country Music keeps its gaze on back roads and broken hearts, Taylor zooms out to the scaffolding beneath them: ontology, ethics, power. The philosophical payoff is clarity without anesthesia. His lyrics do not comfort. They reveal.

Jules Taylor writes for the ones who stayed up late reading because the world didn’t make sense. For those who’ve stood at the edge of love or loss or belief and looked down. His songs and poems are for the listener who’s both surviving and reckoning.

His band, The String Breakers, are a collective of the finest Country and Bluegrass musicians in South Texas.

“His vocals are as weathered as an old highway sign and as inviting as your favorite mom and pop diner… Overall, the collection is the musical equivalent of the Great American Novel: a work that captures what it means to be human – the shortcomings and the triumphs, the heartaches and the joys.” – Paula Cummings, NYSMusic.com