Hit Writer Karen Taylor-Good Releases Favorite Song, 'On Angel's Wings,' Aug. 7

NASHVILLE, TN (Karen Taylor-Good Official Website) - The best country music tends to be lyric-driven, with stories about ordinary people and their everyday struggles and triumphs. That describes much of the work of hit songwriter Karen Taylor-Good, and it certainly applies to her song On Angel's Wings, a stunning new recording of which will be released to country radio programmers Aug. 7 on CDX Vol. 402. It's also featured on Taylor-Good's latest album, HOW MANY WOMEN (Insight Records).

The song, which has been touching people for several years, was previously recorded (under the title She's Gonna Fly) by country hitmaker Collin Raye, who has recorded seven of Taylor-Good's songs, including a smash single with Not That Different. Until now, however, On Angel's Wings had never been released as a single, and Taylor-Good is convinced that 'it needs to be out there in the world.'

On Angel's Wings, which Taylor-Good wrote with Jason Blume (John Berry's Change My Mind), is an emotionally complex piece of writing dealing with Taylor-Good's discovery that her mother has Alzheimer's disease. Over a beautifully spare accompaniment of piano, acoustic guitar, bass and cello, she lays her soul bare as she sings of her anger, denial and gradual acceptance, with divine help, of the situation.

It's a song of healing that Taylor-Good calls 'my favorite song that I've ever written.' After she performed it for 1,800 women at the American Business Women's Association, she 'stood in line for 2� hours and signed and hugged and sold hundreds of CDs because they all had to have that song.' And when she played it during the International Fan Club Organization show at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in June, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

A different recording of On Angel's Wings found recent overseas success, including a stay at the No. 1 position in the U.K. Taylor-Good is hoping it will get the opportunity to touch more people in the U.S. 'It's been more than 20 years since I was a recording artist, and this one song is my reason for coming back,' she says. 'I truly believe it has the potential, if radio will play it, of making a difference in a whole lot of people's lives.'