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Bassist Larry Taylor was born in Brooklyn, New York. A master of both electric and upright bass, Taylor pioneered the reemergence of the upright bass and is tremendously influential in the world of blues bass. He cites influences such as Willie Dixon, Sam Jones, Paul Chambers, Ransom Knowling and Earnest “Big” Crawford. Tayor was a founding member of Canned Heat, the legendary blues-rock band, with whom he was known as Larry the Mole Taylor. He played with Canned Heat at The Monterey International Pop Festival, and at Woodstock.  Taylor was a pivotal member of the Hollywood Fats Band. He has toured and recorded with countless artists including Jerry Lee Lewis, John Mayall’s Blues Breakers, Buddy Guy, Kim Wilson’s Blues Revue and John Hammond. Taylor played on Tom Waits’s Grammy Award-winning albums Bone Machine and Mule Variations, and has been a member of his touring band since 1993. Larry Taylor participated in the “Heroes of Woodstock” Tour in 2009.
 
Larry Taylor is also featured on film soundtracks. He was selected as the upright bass player for Marin Scorsese’s “Salute to the Blues” concert at Radio City Music Hall in February 2003, and the subsequent film, Lightning in a Bottle. In 2008 Taylor played bass on the entire soundtrack of the film Cadillac Records, and won a Grammy Certificate for the song from the soundtrack, “At Last,” sung by Beyoncé Knowles. Taylor plays an important musical role in a documentary about Keith Richards directed by Johnny Depp, playing behind all the artists, including Keith Richards with Norah Jones and with Patti Smith. He also plays behind Keith with a band including Waddy Watell on guitar, Steve Jordan on drums and Benmont Tench from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on piano, and Keith in a song in which he sings and plays piano accompanied by bass and drums. Taylor will also be interviewed for the movie and filmed with Tom Waits.

In a class of his own, Larry Taylor is a living legend.