Melvin Taylor was
born in 1959 in Jackson, Mississippi. His musical roots however have always been in Chicago,
where he moved with his music-loving, guitar playing family when he was 3 years old. The
proverbial musical prodigy, started playing guitar at age 6. He learned from his uncle
Floyd Vaughan, and his great aunt, Rosetta Tharpe. Melvin was influenced and inspired
by some of the world’s greatest blues players - many of whom lived in or near his Chicago
neighborhood - Albert King, Jimmy Reed, Wes Montgomery and later Jimi Hendrix.
Matt G. director of photography
the Slack Band - Depression Blues
Melvin has released 9 albums and one single.
By the age of twelve, he was working in the clubs with other musicians much older than he was. He taught himself slide playing, finger-picking, and flat-picking styles from listening to his favorite artists, B. B. King, Albert King, and Jimi Hendrix.
"A multi-faceted guitarist that transcends genres and creates his own artistic voice. If there is such a thing of a musical happy place somewhere between "shredding" and virtuoso with the heart of a blues lion tossed in for flavor..."
"Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Tayor's music is his ability to glide all most effortlessly between genres of jazz, blues, rock and the more soulful attitude that would seem to bind his efforts together..."
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