His vocal, guitar and songwriting talents were also recognized in 2000 with a coveted fellowship to the Sundance Composers Lab in Park City, UT. Taylor earned his first big break with a review in Playboy magazine by the rock critic Dave Marsh who described it as “minimalist blues in the John Lee Hooker mode.” In 1997 Passarelli produced Taylor’s second record, When Negroes Walked the Earth. You can definitely see how I was getting ready to go that way.” According to Taylor, “I developed a way of saying something that seemed more intense. In 1996 he released his first solo album, Blue-Eyed Monster (Shoelace Music) produced by Passarelli. Audience response was so strong that it served as a catalyst for Taylor’s return to recording and touring with his vision of pushing the blues genre forward with fresh and original songwriting. In 1995 at the urging of Kenny Passarelli (renowned bass player for Elton John and Joe Walsh’s Barnstorm) Taylor kicked off his return to performing at the opening of Buchanan’s coffeehouse on University Hill in Boulder, joined by Passarelli and former Zephyr guitarist Eddie Turner. During the twenty years he was out of the mainstream music business he also helped organize, coach and fund one of the first African American bicycle racing teams that eventually ranked 4 th in the United States. As the music and the business changed, Taylor turned away from public performances in 1977 and developed a thriving career as an expert in high-end antiques.
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