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Artist
Dudley Taft
12+ albums
bluesblues rockguitarGerman Blues LoversGuitar Karlsruhe
about
Dudley Taft grew up in a country called the "Midwest", where he learned the values of friendship, roots blues, rock 'n' roll and a good ear of corn. Local guitar hero Rob Swaynie in Indianapolis taught Dudley the value of music theory interspersed with B.B King, Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top riffs. By the time Dudley headed for his tour of duty at the Taft School in Conneticut, named after his great-grand uncle President William Taft, music was already in his blood. Most Taft's go on to be politicians, lawyers and businessmen but Dudley knew what he wanted to do. While at Taft he founded the band “Space Antelope” with friend Trey Anastasio (of Phish Fame). After high school, Dudley moved to California to attend Claremont college and took a stab at the windling rock scene of the late 80's in LA, until a friend mentioned to him about what was happening in Seattle. This was just what he was looking for and Dudley headed north in the summer of 1990. Of course, at this time Seattle was the place to be for rock musicians and Dudley took full advantage of the situation, starting the mega-popular Seattle band “Sweet Water”. That outfit provided an opportunity to share the stage with some of the biggest names in the rock world at the time, such as Alice In Chains, Candlebox, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and even included a rare opening spot for a Temple Of The Dog show and an unlikely encounter with a true rock legend. As the story goes, when Sweetwater was mixing their CD in London at Tim P
