A consummate entertainer, but also a weaver of stories in which troubadour grace blends with tales of lived life, of unknown heroes and burned-out existences, Allan Taylor continues to reintroduce himself to audiences around the world with his distinctive, instantly recognizable, darkly sweet voice and personal guitar style. Over the years, his album “The Traveller” won the Grand Prix du Disque de Montreaux as the best European record of the year, while in 2001 “Colour to the Moon” garnered unanimous acclaim for its great compositional maturity, testifying to the very high compositional quality that has characterized and continues to mark the entire career of this great artist. “Hotels and Dreamers,” awarded as the best album of the year in Germany, collects a handful of songs of extraordinary intensity, adding to Taylor’s old songbook which, it is fair to remember, have been taken up by more than a hundred artists of various nationalities throughout the world; “It’s Good to See You” alone has been reinterpreted more than sixty times, in ten different languages. “Leaving at Dawn,” released in April 2009, presents us with a return to a compositional and performing mode very close to the folk of the 1960s and 1970s of which he is an acknowledged master, along with Richard Thompson and Dick Gaughan. His poetry is made up of miles grinded on the roads of the world and people met or only crossed paths: each of his songs is a photograph, the story of a life at the bar over a beer or a good glass of wine. And like the stories told in this way, his songs then seem to have always been a part of his life.
As Allan says at the beginning of each of his concerts, Sit back and enjoy the journey.
