Eddie Taylor

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Big Town Playboy 00:00 Tools
Bad Boy 00:00 Tools
Dark Road 00:00 Tools
Ride 'em On Down 00:00 Tools
Stroll Out West 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Love You 00:00 Tools
Leave This Neighborhood 00:00 Tools
Find My Baby 00:00 Tools
Don't Knock At My Door 00:00 Tools
You'll Always Have a Home 00:00 Tools
E.t. Blues 00:00 Tools
Stop Breaking Down 00:00 Tools
Sittin' Here Thinkin' 00:00 Tools
I'm Sitting Here 00:00 Tools
Bad Boy (live) 00:00 Tools
Blues In the Rain 00:00 Tools
Clouds In My Heart 00:00 Tools
Jackson Town 00:00 Tools
There'll Be a Day 00:00 Tools
I Feel So Bad 00:00 Tools
If You Don't Want Me Baby 00:00 Tools
Love Dance 00:00 Tools
Bigtown Playboy 00:00 Tools
Going Upside Your Head 00:00 Tools
Knockin' At Your Door 00:00 Tools
Train Fare 00:00 Tools
Wreck On 83 Highway 00:00 Tools
13 Highway 00:00 Tools
Boogaloo Farm 00:00 Tools
Lookin' For Trouble 00:00 Tools
Do You Want Me To Cry 00:00 Tools
Twelve Year Old Boy 00:00 Tools
Bullcow Blues 00:00 Tools
Bad Boy [Original] 00:00 Tools
Bad 00:00 Tools
Anna Lee 00:00 Tools
Take Your Hands Down 00:00 Tools
Moon Is Rising 00:00 Tools
Somethin' For Nothin' 00:00 Tools
If You Don't Want Me Baby (live) 00:00 Tools
I Got Long To Stay 00:00 Tools
Keep On Pushing 00:00 Tools
All Your Lovin' 00:00 Tools
Dust My Broom 00:00 Tools
You Make Me See 00:00 Tools
I Found Out 00:00 Tools
Look Out 00:00 Tools
Pink Champagne 00:00 Tools
I Have The Blues 00:00 Tools
I Do Know Right From Wrong 00:00 Tools
Blow Wind Blow 00:00 Tools
After Hours 00:00 Tools
Peach Tree Blues 00:00 Tools
Long Home Blues 00:00 Tools
Feel Like Jumping 00:00 Tools
I wanna love you 00:00 Tools
Indiana Wants Me 00:00 Tools
Train Fare Home 00:00 Tools
Three O' Clock In The Morning 05:40 Tools
Bad Boy - Original 00:00 Tools
Seems Like A Million Years 00:00 Tools
My Sometimes Baby 00:00 Tools
My Heart Is Bleeding 00:00 Tools
looking for trouble 00:00 Tools
Look Over Yonders Wall 00:00 Tools
Crossroads 00:00 Tools
Baby Please Don't Go 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down Slow 00:00 Tools
I Don't Know 00:00 Tools
Ready for Eddie 00:00 Tools
Look Over Yonder's Wall 00:00 Tools
Red Light 00:00 Tools
Signals of Love 00:00 Tools
Let's Jam 00:00 Tools
Take Your Hand Down 00:00 Tools
I Used To Have Some Friends 00:00 Tools
Let's Boogie 00:00 Tools
Three O'clock in the Morning 00:00 Tools
You Don't Love Me 00:00 Tools
Bad Boy (Original) 00:00 Tools
Hoy Hoy 00:00 Tools
I Know My Baby 00:00 Tools
I'm a Country Boy 00:00 Tools
Cross Cut Saw 00:00 Tools
Soul Brother 00:00 Tools
Sloppy Drunk 00:00 Tools
My Little Machine 00:00 Tools
All Your Loving 00:00 Tools
Too Late To Cry 00:00 Tools
Playboy Boogie 00:00 Tools
Stormy Monday 00:00 Tools
Rising Wind 00:00 Tools
Trouble Blues 00:00 Tools
Schooldays on My Mind 00:00 Tools
Stockyard Blues 00:00 Tools
Gamblin' Man 00:00 Tools
Baby, Don't Say That No More 00:00 Tools
Jackson Town Blues 00:00 Tools
Opening 00:00 Tools
Steppin' Out 00:00 Tools
Greyhound Bus 00:00 Tools
Going to Virginia 00:00 Tools
You Upset My Mind 00:00 Tools
Ride 'em Down 00:00 Tools
Blues For Luc 00:00 Tools
Lookin' For My Trouble 00:00 Tools
So Bad 00:00 Tools
Cry for Me Baby 00:00 Tools
A Pain In My Neck 00:00 Tools
Kind Hearted Woman 00:00 Tools
Road Of Love 00:00 Tools
Lawndale Blues 00:00 Tools
Lexington Breakdown 00:00 Tools
I'm Going Upside Your Head 00:00 Tools
You're Gonna Look For Me 00:00 Tools
Ride 'Em On Down(Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
You're Gonna Look for Me (And I'll Be Hard to Find) 00:00 Tools
Hard Times 00:00 Tools
Sweet Talkin' Woman 00:00 Tools
Feel So Bad 00:00 Tools
Woman You Must Be Stone Crazy 00:00 Tools
Let Me Love You Baby 00:00 Tools
Route 66 00:00 Tools
Rock Me Baby 00:00 Tools
Playhouse Blues 00:00 Tools
You Always Have A Home(Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Blues Club 00:00 Tools
Town Playboy 00:00 Tools
Tell Me Mama 00:00 Tools
I Came Up The Hard Way 00:00 Tools
Tell Me Baby 00:00 Tools
M&O Blues 00:00 Tools
Down In Virginia 00:00 Tools
Look On Yonder's Wall 00:00 Tools
Tin Pan Alley 00:00 Tools
Honky Tonk 00:00 Tools
Ride Em On Down 00:00 Tools
Knocking At Your Door 00:00 Tools
Sittin' Here Thinking 00:00 Tools
Three Ways to Skin A Cat 00:00 Tools
Bad Boy [Live] 00:00 Tools
01 - Bad Boy - 1998 - Bad Boy - (1983-84) - Wolf Records 00:00 Tools
Big Town Play Boy 00:00 Tools
peach tree 00:00 Tools
All Your Lovin 00:00 Tools
One Day I Get Lucky 00:00 Tools
Hideaway 00:00 Tools
Bull Cow Blues 00:00 Tools
Big Town Playboy (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Bad Boy - Previously Unreleased Take 00:00 Tools
Greyhound Bus (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Night Train 00:00 Tools
Smokestack Lightning 00:00 Tools
That's All Right 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Leave You 00:00 Tools
02 - Take Your Hands Down - 1998 - Bad Boy - (1983-84) - Wolf Records 00:00 Tools
There'll Be a Day [*] 00:00 Tools
Mean Red Spider (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Do You Want To Make Me Cry 00:00 Tools
I Got A Little Thing They Call It Swing 00:00 Tools
Come Back Baby 00:00 Tools
Stop Breakin' Down 00:00 Tools
Dust My Broom [*] 00:00 Tools
She's Nineteen Years Old 00:00 Tools
03 - Moon Is Rising - 1998 - Bad Boy - (1983-84) - Wolf Records 00:00 Tools
The State Song 00:00 Tools
Leave this neigborhood 00:00 Tools
Mean Old World 00:00 Tools
Big Town Playboy - Original 00:00 Tools
Signals Of Love [Live] 00:00 Tools
Gamblin' Woman 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down Slow [Live] 00:00 Tools
For You My Love 00:00 Tools
Kansas City 00:00 Tools
Blow Wind Blow [Live] 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee 00:00 Tools
There´ll Be A Day 00:00 Tools
05 - Keep On Pushing - 1998 - Bad Boy - (1983-84) - Wolf Records 00:00 Tools
Gamblin' Woman [*] 00:00 Tools
Lucky Lou 00:00 Tools
06 - I Have The Blues - 1998 - Bad Boy - (1983-84) - Wolf Records 00:00 Tools
04 - Pink Champagne - 1998 - Bad Boy - (1983-84) - Wolf Records 00:00 Tools
Big Town Playboy (1955 VEE JAY) 00:00 Tools
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Edward Taylor (January 29, 1923 – December 25, 1985) was an American blues guitarist and singer. Born in Benoit, Mississippi, as a boy Eddie Taylor taught himself to play the guitar. He spent his early years playing at venues around Leland, Mississippi where he taught his friend Jimmy Reed to play guitar. Bringing with him a style deeply rooted in the Mississippi Delta tradition, in 1949 Eddie Taylor moved to Chicago. While Taylor never achieved the stardom of some of his compatriots in the Chicago Blues scene, he nevertheless was an integral part of that era and is especially noted as a main accompanist for Jimmy Reed as well as working with John Lee Hooker, Big Walter Horton, and others. Taylor's own records "Big Town Playboy" and "Bad Boy" on Vee Jay Records became local hits in the 1950s. When you're talking about the patented Jimmy Reed laconic shuffle sound, you're talking about Eddie Taylor just as much as Reed himself. Taylor was the glue that kept Reed's lowdown grooves from falling into serious disrepair. His rock-steady rhythm guitar powered the great majority of Reed's Vee-Jay sides during the 1950s and early '60s, and he even found time to wax a few classic sides of his own for Vee-Jay during the mid-'50s. Eddie Taylor was as versatile a blues guitarist as anyone could ever hope to encounter. His style was deeply rooted in Delta tradition, but he could snap off a modern funk-tinged groove just as convincingly as a straight shuffle. Taylor witnessed Delta immortals Robert Johnson and Charley Patton as a lad, taking up the guitar himself in 1936 and teaching the basics of the instrument to his childhood pal Reed. After a stop in Memphis, he hit Chicago in 1949, falling in with harpist Snooky Pryor, guitarist Floyd Jones, and -- you guessed it -- his old homey Reed. I Feel So Bad From Jimmy Reed's second Vee-Jay date in 1953 on, Eddie Taylor was right there to help Reed through the rough spots. Taylor's own Vee-Jay debut came in 1955 with the immortal "Bad Boy" (Reed returning the favor on harp). Taylor's second Vee-Jay single coupled two more classics, "Ride 'Em on Down" and "Big Town Playboy," and his last two platters for the firm, "You'll Always Have a Home" and "I'm Gonna Love You," were similarly inspired. But Taylor's records didn't sell in the quantities that Reed's did, so he was largely relegated to the role of sideman (he recorded behind John Lee Hooker, John Brim, Elmore James, Snooky Pryor, and many more during the '50s) until his 1972 set for Advent, I Feel So Bad, made it abundantly clear that this quiet, unassuming guitarist didn't have to play second fiddle to anyone. When he died in 1985, he left a void on the Chicago circuit that remains apparent even now. They just don't make 'em like Eddie Taylor anymore. Taylor's son Eddie Taylor Jr. is a blues guitarist in Chicago, and his stepson Larry Taylor is a blues drummer and vocalist. Taylor's wife Vera was the sister of well-known bluesmen Eddie Burns and Jimmy Burns. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.