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      • Allan Taylor (born 30 September 1945 in Brighton, England) is an English singer-songwriter who has written and performed music around the world for over 50 years.


      Career



      Taylor left school in 1961. He was an apprentice in telecommunications until 1965. Inspired by skiffle and the beat generation, he started singing and playing guitar in the folk clubs of Brighton through his teenage years. He became a full-time musician in 1966, and left Brighton to become part of the music scene in London. He toured Great Britain, playing various folk clubs, including the Troubadour Club in London, sometimes supporting Fairport Convention. In 1970 he signed a recording contract with United Artists, recording the albums Sometimes (1971) and The Lady (1972).
      Taylor moved to New York and became part of the singer-songwriter scene in Greenwich Village, playing at clubs such as Gerde's, The Gaslight Cafe, The Bitter End, the Mercer Arts Center, and The Bottom Line. He toured throughout America and recorded The American Album in Nashville and Los Angeles (1973). He signed to Island Records as a songwriter in 1974. In the mid-1970s, he returned to live in UK, and then formed the band Cajun Moon. He then signed a recording contract with Chrysalis Records and made one LP: Cajun Moon (1976). In 1976, he ended the band and became a solo artist. He made three records with Black Crow/Rubber Records from 1978 to 1983 (The Traveller, winner of the Grand Prix du Disque de Montreaux for best European Record, Roll on the Day, and Circle ‘Round Again). Taylor formed T Records in 1980 and made Win or Lose (1984), Lines (1988), Out of Time (1991), So Long (1993), Faded Light (1995), The Alex Campbell Tribute Concert (1997).
      From 1980 to 1992 (whilst continuing as a singer-songwriter, recording/performing artist and working occasionally for the BBC presenting documentary programmes), he earned three academic degrees: a BA from Leeds University, a MA from Lancaster University, and a PhD in ethnomusicology from Queen's University Belfast.


      = 1995–present

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      In 1995, he started his relationship with Stockfisch Records, based in Northeim, Germany, producing Looking for You (1996), Colour to the Moon (2000), Hotels and Dreamers 2003, Old Friends New Roads (2007), Leaving at Dawn (2009), Songs for the Road (2010), All Is One (2013), There was a Time (2016).
      To date, there are more than 100 cover versions of his song "It's Good to See You" in ten different languages and numerous cover versions of his other songs, also in many different languages.
      Taylor's song "Roll on the Day", developed from his personal experience of visiting with an ex-coal miner and witnessing the effects on him of a lifetime of working in a coal mine.
      In The Oxford Book of Traditional Verse, Dr. Frederick Woods comments: "Allan Taylor is one of the more literate and sensitive of contemporary songwriters in terms of words and music, and one who is capable of exploring more complex subjects than most of his contemporaries… he should probably be regarded as potentially the most important songwriter of his generation."
      So with a career that spans from 1966 to the present, Taylor has a significant degree of experience and maturity in his music.
      Taylor continues to record and perform concerts throughout Europe. He currently resides in Leeds, England.


      Discography


      The Lady, 1971
      Sometimes, 1971
      The American Album, 1973
      Cajun Moon, 1976
      The Traveller, 1978
      Roll on the Day, 1980
      Circle Round Again, 1983
      Win or Lose, 1984
      Lines, 1988
      Out of Time, 1991
      So Long, 1993
      Faded Light, 1995
      Looking for You, 1996
      Alex Campbell Tribute Concert, 1997
      Colour to the Moon, 2000
      Out of Time: Remastered, 2002
      Banjoman: Derroll Adams Tribute, 2002
      Hotels & Dreamers, 2003
      Old Friends, New Roads, 2007
      Leaving at Dawn, 2009
      In the Groove, 2010
      Songs for the Road, 2010
      Down the Years I Travelled..., 2012
      Old Friends in Concert (Live-CD with Hannes Wader, 2013
      All Is One, 2013
      There Was a Time, 2016
      Behind the Mix, 2017


      References




      External links


      Allan Taylor Biography

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