Edward Taylor

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Mississippi is known for its many blues musicians, and Eddie Taylor is one if these artists. Although he often found himself in Jimmy Reed’s shadow, he was a great guitar player. Eddie Taylor was born to Joseph Taylor and Mamie Gaston iJanuary 29, 1923. His mother and father separated when he was young, and Taylor had to stay home from school and work on his mother's farm in Benoit, Mississippi. In 1936 he got his first guitar and taught himself how to play it. His son, Eddie Taylor, Jr, said in a recent interview that his father was a natural guitar player. Taylor's playing style became that of the delta tradition (All Music Guides). Listening to the music of his favorite musicians, Charley Palton and Robert Pelway, pushed Taylor to try harder. Little did Eddie Taylor known that he would eventually grow into a great blues guitarist. In 1949, Eddie Taylor moved to Chicago where he began working with Jimmy Lee Robinson in Jake's Tavern. Club Jumboree was another club Taylor played. According to one source, a blues man named Freddie King moved north to Chicago in his mid-teens., and in 1950 became influenced by local blues guitarists Eddie 'Playboy' Taylor and Robert Lockwood. King absorbed elements from both of these blues men's styles before he added elements of Magic Sam and Otis Rush. Taylor himself began playing behind Jimmy Reed in 1953. This fact is interesting because Eddie Taylor taught Jimmy Reed to play guitar back in Leland, Mississippi. Eddie Taylo

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Lookin' For Trouble - CBS Vol 44

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A Taste of "The View"- Helensview School Compilation

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Away In A Manger

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Chicago Blues Session Vol 44 - A Tribute To Eddie Tayler Lookin, ' For Trouble

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Finzi: Choral Works

Lookin' For Trouble

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KNALLI JA SATEENVARJO

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ChBS Vol 44 - Tribute To Eddie "Big Town Playboy" Taylor

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A Tribute To Eddie Taylor - Lookin' For Trouble

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Lookin for Trouble

Fantasy on Carlisle

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Waxing The Gospel: Mass Evangelism & The Phonograph (1890-1900)

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