Looking For You (Remastered) Allan Taylor

• 1 The Traveller 04:58
• 2 So Long 04:28
• 3 Looking for You 04:28
• 4 Win or Lose 05:04
• 5 The Veteran 04:34
• 6 The Dove 03:08
• 7 Restless 04:28
• 8 Joseph 03:56
• 9 Misty on the Water 03:37
• 10 Cold Hard Town 03:18
• 11 Crazy Man 03:39
• 12 Hard to Tell 02:13
• Total Runtime 47:51

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Viele kennen Allans Songs - vielleicht sogar, ohne es zu wissen. Viele singen seine Lieder, in unterschiedlichen Sprachen und Stilrichtungen, so z. B. Nana Mouskouri, Hannes Wader, Fairport Convention oder Frankie Miller.

Dennoch sind Allan Taylors eigene Interpretationen am überzeugendsten: Es sind seine Eindrücke und Erfahrungen, von denen er als ‘durchreisender Beobachter’ singt - mit seiner fast magischen Stimme, die den Zuhörer in den Bann zieht.

Allan Taylors erstes Album bei Stockfisch - Looking For You - aus dem Jahre 1996, u. a. mit Chris Jones und - als special guests - Andy Irvine und Eberhard Weber.

"Der britische Songwriter und Gitarrist der leisen Töne nahm 1996 eine Deutschlandtournee zum Anlaß, einige seiner zum Teil zwei Jahrzehnte alten Songs neu einzuspielen. Ist es den guten Kontakten von Tonmeister Günter Pauler oder aber schlicht der Vorsehung zu verdanken, daß sich Taylors Wege im Studio mit denen des irischen Bouzouki-Asses Andy Irvine, des amerikanischen Gitarristen Chris Jones oder des Bassisten Eberhard Weber kreuzten? Egal: In diesen Sessions mischten sich südstaaliche Klänge mit nordenglischer Gitarrenmystik zu dichten Folk-Miniaturen." (Stereoplay)

Allan Taylor, Gesang, Gitarre
Chris Jones, Gitarre
Frank Fiedler, E-Bass, Kontrabass
Dirko Juchem, Saxophon, Flöte
Eberhard Weber, Bass
Andy Irvine, Mandoline, Bouzouki

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Allan Taylor
is one of the last of the traveling troubadours who came through the social and artistic revolution of the nineteen sixties and carved out a career as a solo singer-songwriter. Born in Brighton, England in 1945 he experienced the Beatnik times, the Skiffle days, the Mods and Rockers and the early Hippy days, all played out on Brighton Beach. At the age of twenty one he left home and became part of the vibrant folk music of London, playing all of the major folk clubs of the time (for example, the famous Troubadour Club) and then to Greenwich Village, New York, playing legendary clubs such as Gerde’s, The Gaslight, The Bitter End, The Mercer Arts Center. He embraced the issues, images and emotions of his time and used these experiences as the basis of his songs. Signed to the international record company United Artists and recording in London, Nashville and Los Angeles his albums were released world-wide. By the mid-seventies he returned to Europe to live and then started on the second part of his career, having now established his modus operandi – collecting the stories for his songs in the bars and cafes of Europe and throughout the rest of the world.

For more than forty-five years Allan Taylor has travelled the world performing at festivals, concert halls and clubs. He is considered to be one of the foremost singer-songwriters and guitarists in his genre, with more than one hundred recorded versions of his songs by Artists in ten different languages. One song in particular, “It’s good to see you” was a hit in many countries, and to date, there are eighty cover versions of this song. Looking back as well as forward, few people can convey with such eloquence their life experiences. His songs are written from a lifetime of traveling; always the observer passing through, each song is a vignette of life, like a story told over a drink in a bar. He writes his songs in cafes, bars and hotel rooms throughout the world, songs for the lost and lonely, for the unsung heroes of life, for those marginalized by society – they all find a place in his songs. Each song has an integrity that tells you it comes from something real; characters come to life as people you know and places become as familiar as if you had been there.

Allan is considered to be one of the music scene’s great guitarists, creating during his stage performance a distinctive rich and mellow sound, and with a voice that speaks of a life-time of travel he can make each song a vignette of life, like a story told over a drink in a bar. His songs have an integrity that tell you they come from something real, where characters come to life as people you know and places become as familiar as if you had been there. When this happens, you know it’s an Allan Taylor concert.

Allan Taylor is also a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy and Music, having written his thesis for the Queen’s University of Belfast.

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