Allan Taylor
For over 30 years Allan Taylor has been on the road, travelling and performing around the world, observing it, writing about it and the characters he's met en route. Each song is a vignette of life, like a story told over a drink in a bar. Characters come to life and become people you recognise or know - places become as familiar as if you had been there. As Allan says at the beginning of each concert, "Sit back and enjoy the journey."
Listen to
Allan Taylor
- Kerouac's Dream [3.62Mb]
- Los Companeros [5.67Mb]
- Running On Dreams [4.92Mb]
- The Stranger [3.45Mb]
- Wheels Of Fortune [3.49Mb]
Allan's album The Traveller (1978) won the very prestigious Grand Prix du Disque de Montreaux for the best European album while his most recent accolade is to be given the critics award, "CD of the year 2004", for his current CD, Hotels and Dreamers (2004) by the major German folkmusic monthly, Folker!. This is a very significant award given Allan's popularity in Germany.
Along the way Allan Taylor has recorded fifteen CDs of the songs he has written, of which more than fifty have been recorded by other performers. He has played all of the major festivals, concerts and clubs of Europe and America, and is considered to be the consummate performer, a writer of literary gracefulness whose troubadour chronicles encapsulate the realism of otherwise unsung heroes, otherwise uncharted lives.
More than seven years in the writing, in hotel rooms throughout Europe as he toured making concerts, Allan Taylor wrote his Ph.D. thesis and gained a Doctorate in Ethnomusicology from The Queen's University of Belfast.
For more information visit Allan Taylor's Website
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