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Goodbye Picasso
12+ albums
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Songwriter Chris Dreyer and guitarist Scott Taylor formed Goodbye Picasso in New York City in 2007 after making a move from Nashville and instantly made a splash in the city's vibrant music scene. They are regulars at songwriters-haven Rockwood Music Hall and won the Audience Award at the 2008 A.N.T. Festival at Ars Nova for Chris Dreyer's magnum opus, The Book of Aylene. The band has performed each year at the CMJ Music Marathon and in 2010 are releasing The Book of Aylene as a full-length recording. "Nashville was great, but everyone we spoke with in the industry really thought New York was the place for us," explains Chris. "If you are working towards a career in Country or Christian, there is no better place than Nashville, but they were right: NYC has been a great launching pad for our music and the audiences have responded in the way we always hoped they would." Chris and Scott met in London while studying abroad as students at Florida State University. Their musical chemistry was so immediate, they played 3 standing-room-only shows in London and recorded an EP within a month of meeting one another. Back in the states, they performed over 350 shows in the Southeast music scene and on trips up and down the East Coast with bands formed while in school and with sidemen afterward. In 2006, the year they lived in Nashville, they played 80 shows in 6 months, culminating with their first appearance at the CMJ Music Marathon in NYC, a show that made them realize they could th
