Taylor Swift photo by Joseph Anthony Baker, courtesy of Big Machine Records.

Taylor Swift’s Journey To Fearless DVD and Blue-ray hit stores today, October 11, and includes 13 performances from her 2010 Fearless Tour as well as exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and home videos from Taylor’s childhood. Taylor herself provides the narrative and some of the performances included are “You Belong With Me,” “Tim McGraw,” “Fifteen,” “Teardrops On My Guitar,” “Today Was A Fairytale,” and “Fearless.”

One of the stories Taylor shares on the DVD is of her first guitar. The guitar sat in a corner of her room until a computer repairman offered to teach her a few chords. Watch this clip from the DVD of explaining how a broken computer led her to pick up the guitar.

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Taylor Swift photo courtesy of Big Machine Records.

She’s a singer, songwriter, actress and the youngest-ever CMA Entertainer of the Year nominee — but perhaps Taylor Swift should also add “TV Queen” to her many titles. This month she’s set to guest on three high-profile TV shows. 

Last Friday, Taylor taped an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show that airs Wednesday, Oct. 14. Earlier in May, Taylor surprised a young fan, Jordan Casner, on the Oprah set, and was invited back in the fall by Oprah. This Wednesday, Taylor talks with Oprah about her life and her music, and performs her hit “Love Story.” Continue Reading

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Taylor Swift surprised country radio programmers during a recent dinner in New York City before her sold-out Madison Square Garden show. Pictured above with Taylor are her tour openers, Gloriana and WKLB/Boston MD Ginny Rogers. (l-r): Gloriana’s Mike Gossin, Cheyenne Kimball, WKLB’s Ginny Rogers, Taylor, Gloriana's Tom Gossin and Rachel Reinert. Photo courtesy of Big Machine Records.

Sept. 29, 2009 — Gloriana has made quite the splash in 2009. The band earned its first hit with “Wild At Heart,” reached No. 2 on the Billboard country album chart with its initial CD and hit the road as an opening act on Taylor Swift’s Fearless Tour.

Taylor was, perhaps, a bit of a visionary, offering the band the concert slot when it was still just trying to get a little traction by visiting radio stations across the U.S.

“We had been doing this tour for about 20 weeks in a 15-passenger van, just driving around the country and flying to different states day in and day out,” group member Tom Gossin told The Youngstown Vindicator of Ohio. “We were in a van leaving a radio station when we got a phone call. We put it on speaker, and a girl got on and said, ‘It’s Taylor Swift.’” Continue Reading

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