Larry Joe Taylor

Biography

31 July 1950, Texas, USA. After studying business at Tarleton State University Taylor worked at various jobs in commerce, agriculture and industry. He also was deeply interested in rodeo until an injury forced him to stop riding. Meanwhile, he taught himself to play guitar and in his spare time sang in bars, sometimes writing his own material. Taylor formed bands and thus maintained his links to music. Over the years, his attachment to the traditional, earthier aspects of rural music, which later spawned ‘outlaw’ music, developed to the point where he decided to launch his own music festival. Until this point, Taylor’s singing and composing had been appreciated mainly by fellow musicians, such as Gary P. Nunn, with whom he composed some songs. Audiences were indifferent, indeed his first festival, in Mingus in 1989, was poorly attended with less than 100 people turning up. He persisted, however, and the following year four times that number arrived....

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