Many of you are no doubt fans of these albums already. For those of you less familiar, Taylor was a teen country star, then a pop star… always fun and fresh and a bit underestimated. Over the years, she has kept evolving, and in our opinion just keeps getting better. Jane (age 8) and Sarah (somewhat older) cherish each of her albums. Jane’s first (and last) musical performance in early March 2020 was a TS song, and both she and Sarah sing and play several on the piano. And so, in the midst of all the darkness over the last year, having Taylor release not just one, but two surprise albums, was an incredible gift. Better yet, they’re complicated and wistful and melodious and different… We have listened to both repeatedly, learning the lyrics, piecing them out on the piano, and working on learning the harmonies so we can sing duets. They’re real albums, with a creative thread connecting them, meant to be listened to all the way through. Katherine Miller (Buzzfeed) speaks for us when she says: “2020 will be one of the worst years of most of our lives. Which is why I think it might be hard to explain to someone who wasn’t here for it why — for the people who really connected with Folklore and Evermore — these albums hit even harder and bigger than maybe the sum of their parts.” Needless to say, we really connected.