Eddie Taylor Jr & Friends live 2012 Nyon, Suisse Bar de La Ferme

Eddie Taylor Jr. was born in March 27, 1972 in Chicago Ill. He was the son of the late great Eddie Taylor, the legendary Big Town Playboy and creator of the Jimmy Reed Sound. Eddie Taylor Jr. has inherited his extraordinary talent from his father, blues god Eddie Taylor. When Eddie Taylor Jr. was 13 years old he began to teach himself how to play the guitar by listening to his father's songs. Taylor's sophisticated playing allows him to bring back old favorites and add his own new tunes, which are too tricky for average blues bands. Other so-called "bluesartists" often mix their music with R&B, funk, jazz, or swing, but Eddie Taylor Jr. stands for pure blues. In 1990 Eddie Taylor Jr. recorded his first song for Wolf Records "Ride ´em on down", a song long associated with his father. Since that time there are four CDs which he recorded with Wolf Records. In Chicago Eddie Taylor Jr. played with every important musician like Willie Kent, Johnny B. Moore, Jimmy Burns, John Primer or Hubert Sumlin and learned a lot from them. He is the only one from the young Blues guitarists in Chicago who still plays the traditional Chicago style with his own influences!

Added 6 May 2026