After training in the field of telecommunications technology Taylor devoted himself since the mid-sixties entirely work as a singer / songwriter and musician. He played in major world folk clubs, including the "Gerde's" in "Gaslight" and "Bitter End" in New York's Greenwich Village, where he was temporarily part of the singer / songwriter scene. Allan Taylor worked with the likes of Fairport Convention and Finbar Furey, in Germany with Helmut Debus and Hannes Wader (to name just a few). The list of performers who have been covered his songs ranges from Dick Gaugham to Nana Mouskouri.
Taylor's creativity is undiminished even after nearly thirty albums and his numerous concerts lead the now 68-year-olds also every now and then to Germany. Thoughtful, committed texts, savvy fingerpicking and interesting tunings make his performances a real experience. Every word of his songs directs the powerful doctor of philosophy a (Ethnomusicology) with an associated story. On October 25, 2013 I had to listen opportunity the ambitious man at a concert in front of about 120 audience at Town Hall Stuhr near my hometown Bremen. Even without musical accompaniment and with more manageable Equipment develop pieces like "Kerouac's Dream," "Brighton Beach" or "Creole girl" a remarkable atmosphere!
On his CD "Colour To The Moon" Allan Taylor draws from the rich fund of his fifty-year career as a musician and songwriter. Its usually a bit wistful poetry deals with encounters, love, problems of our time, of renunciation, mortality, loss and death. Sometimes he manages to combine melancholy and happiness in the same song. Allan Taylor is not only a brilliant musician. He is as great a poet who knows how to explore landscapes of the soul. Taylor has a remarkable perception in terms of strength, but also the fragility of life and he understands it, with an alert eye caught the significances of the big and small things of life and turn it into a very believable, thought-provoking pieces.
