Career
Born Edward Taylor in Benoit, Mississippi, United States, as a boy Taylor taught himself to play the guitar. With a guitar style deeply rooted in the Mississippi Delta tradition, in 1949 Taylor moved to Chicago, Illinois. He is especially noted as a main accompanist for Jimmy Reed, as well as working with John Lee Hooker, Big Walter Horton, Sam Lay, and others
Earwig Music Company recorded him with Kansas City Red and Big John Wrencher on the album, Original Chicago Blues.
Taylor"s own records "Big Town Playboy" and "Bad Boy" on Vee Jay Records became local hits in the 1950s. Later in his "semi-retirement" Eddie returned to be the regular lead guitarist with the "Peter Dames and the Chicago River Blues Band" and later to be known as "Peter Dames and the Rhythm Flames"
Taylor died on Christmas Day in 1985 in Chicago, at the age of 62, and was interred in an unmarked grave in the Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.
He was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1987.
