Eddie Taylor
Sign in to saveAmerican electric blues guitarist and singer
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1923
- Active to
- 1985
Discography
- Bad Boy / E T Blues1955
- Ride ’Em on Down / Bigtown Playboy1956
- You'll Always Have a Home / Don't Knock at My Door1956
- I'm Gonna Love You / Looking For Trouble1957
- I'm Sitting Here / Do You Want Me to Cry1964
- Still Not Ready For Eddie1988
- I Feel So Bad1991
- Charly Blues Masterworks, Volume 35: Bad Boy1993
- Long Way From Home1995
- Big Town Playboy1997
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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 Ch
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eddie
- Family name
- Taylor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Benoit
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Vee-Jay Records
- Image
- Eddie Taylor 1970 JT.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1923-01-29
- date of death
- 1985-12-25
- start of work period
- 1940-00-00
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- Eddie Taylor
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