Taylor began gigging with local blues and jazz masters on Beale Street while
simultaneously performing in punk and indie rock bands in Midtown. By high school, he
was collaborating with Luther and Cody Dickinson in an early incarnation of the North
Mississippi Allstars and studying under the tutelage of the pair’s father, Jim Dickinson,
who produced records for everyone from The Replacements and Big Star to Ry Cooder,
Toots Hibbert and Phineas Newborn Jr.
