Julian Taylor Band
Band Details
About the Band
The voice drifting into the lobby from the soundcheck sounds so timeless it might be emerging from some ancient well of souls at the end of the world, but it’s also fresh and vulnerable.
Sometimes he sings in riddles celebrating sexuality, courting, pleading, lonesome and profound. Other times, lost in the dreads, the voice comes up out of the shadow summoning ancestral tones of Maroon resistance or slipping into a high Mohawk register.
So…not a monotone experience at all. And well beyond stereo. In fact not of any one genre. Not limited that way. You get doors opening on doors. There’s no dissonance. In fact it’s a harmonic whole.
Not a revivalist, but a musical revisionist, Julian Taylor masterfully re-combines and updates the vintage sounds that inspired him, to create bold, innovative songs.
Taylor, of both West Indian and Native Canadian decent, is a charismatic frontman, prolific songwriter, and endearing individual – the kind who immediately connects and makes you feel at ease. That character of warmth and generosity permeates everything Taylor does. A calm, somewhat self-effacing person offstage, Taylor morphs into an intense, incendiary and almost shamanistic presence onstage. Toronto poet Robert Priest describes him as “the kind of artist forever in the zone, the voice limitless, the songs full of feeling and memorable hooks.”
Discography
Songs on the Album
| Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Time | Soul | R&B |
| 2 | Take What You Need | Soul | R&B |
| 3 | Back Again | Soul | R&B |
| 4 | Avalanche | Soul | R&B |
| 5 | Sweeter | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 6 | Learn to Love | Soul | R&B |
| 7 | Gone | Soul | R&B |
| 8 | Never Let the Lights Go Dim | Blues Rock | Blues |
Songs on the Album
| Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Coke Bottle Candy | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 0 | Say Goodnight | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 0 | Sweeter | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 1 | Just a Little Bit | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 2 | Bobbi Champagne | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 3 | Heard Good Things | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 5 | Desert Star (Who Could Ask for Anything More) | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 6 | One Time | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 7 | Pick You Up | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 8 | Take Me (Stay) | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 9 | Glass House (Acoustic) | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 10 | House is a Garden | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 12 | Feel Your Love (feat. Kinnie Starr) | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 13 | Hot Heels | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 14 | Tiny & Mighty | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 15 | That Spice | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 16 | Chemical Low | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 17 | Fever | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 18 | Get Loud, Pt.2 | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 19 | Set Me Free | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 20 | The Belly of the Underman | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 21 | Never Too Late | Blues Rock | Blues |
| 22 | In My Life | Blues Rock | Blues |