Creeping Jane - Music

There Is More Than One Artist With This Name 1. Joseph Taylor 1833-1910 Was An English Singer Who Sang Traditional English Music. Taylor Was Born At Binbrook In The Lincolnshire Wolds An Area Of Rolling Chalk Hills On The 10th December 1833. His Early Working Life In The Area Was As An Agricultural Labourer But At The Age Of Seventeen He Was Already Taking An Interest In Music He Often Walked To Grimsby And Back A Round Trip Of About Twenty Miles To Attend A Concert. He Was Also Learning Songs From Gypsies Who Used To Come And Camp In The Chalk Pits That Dotted The Landscape. After His Marriage He Moved To The Village Of Saxby All Saints Where He Worked And Trained As A Carpenter And Joiner. His Love Of Singing Found An Outlet In The Church Choir To Which He Belonged For Forty-Five Years. In 1875 He Joined The Hope-Barton Estate Initially As A Woodman The Hope-Barton Family Owned The Village Of Saxby All Saints . From This Job He Was Subsequently Promoted To Under-Steward. He Also Became Parish Clerk In 1874. His Duties In This Role Included Winding The Church Clock Grave-Digging Collecting Church Rate From Cottagers And The All-Important Task Of Responding “Amen” In Services. The Sixth North Lincolnshire Music Festival Was Held In The Corn Exchange At Brigg In April 1905 And Included A Folk Song Section For The First Time A Result Of Percy Grainger's Interest . The Taylor Family Had Been Involved In Previous Years With A Number Of Successes But Joseph Was Reluctant To Sing In Public And Had To Be Persuaded. He Took First Prize. After The Competition Percy Grainger Noted The Tune To “Brigg Fair” From Joseph Taylor's Singing And It Was Subsequently Published In The Folk Song Society Journal. It Was Shortly After This Trip During Which Grainger Called At Saxby That A Correspondence Started Between The Collector And Annie Allen Joseph’s Second Daughter Which Continued Until Her Death In 1937. At The 1906 Festival Taylor Was Again Awarded First Prize But This Time He Had To Share It With George Gouldthorpe Of Goxhill. In June And July 1908 Taylor Recorded Nine Of His Songs For The Gramophone Company The First Commercially Issued Recordings Of An English Folksinger. The Gramophone Company Not Only Gave Him A Set Of The Records But Also A Gramophone On Which To Play Them. In May 1910 At The Age Of Seventy-Eight He Suffered An Accident In A Horse And Trap And Died Soon Afterwards. Grainger Considered Taylor To Have Been The Finest Folk Singer That He Had Had The Opportunity To Record. 2. A U.S. Singer Who Posts Video Covers On Youtube And ITunes. Most Notably Released "I See You" A Cover Of The Leona Lewis Soundtrack To Avatar. 3. A Classical Pianist. read less