Cassie Taylor Biography
Cassie Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and blues musician. She started her career in the early 2000s touring as a bassist for her father Otis Taylor, a trance blues musician. In 2013, she released a positively received solo album, Out Of My Mind, which infused traditional Delta blues with genres as diverse as electronica, indie rock, and psychedelia.
She is also a model and fashion designer based in Kansas City, Missouri as of 2013.
Cassie Taylor Age
Cassie Taylor was born in 1986 in Boulder, Colorado. She is 33 years as of 2019.
Cassie Taylor Early Life
Cassie Taylor was born in 1986 in Boulder, Colorado. She was raised by her parents Carol Ellen Bjork and blues musician Otis Taylor. She also has one younger sister. Despite being born during a period when her father was on hiatus from the music industry, he did expose her to blues music and teach her piano when she was young. At around age 12, she began playing electric bass, impressing her father with a rendition of “Hey Joe.”
At the age of 16, her father asked her to tour as the bassist in his band. Since his usual bassist Kenny Passarelli had a conflicting schedule she joined his summer tour, playing for twenty dollars per gig. According to Taylor, her father didn’t build her up as a prodigy, but rather “I think I was just cheap child labor. Plus, he knew I wasn’t going to get drunk on the road or go missing. Some people have the fear of God in them. I had the fear of Otis.”
She toured multiple countries with the band, picking up vocals and keyboards as well. Additionally, she went on to appear in eight of his albums, including lending bass and vocals to his 2007 album Definition of a Circle. She is also on the Board of Directors for the Blues Foundation.
Cassie Taylor Husband
Taylor is a married woman. In late 2012, she tied the knot with Chuck Haren and together they have a child.
Cassie Taylor Career
Modeling
Taylor quit the band by the year 2009 to work on her own demo recordings. Due to frustration with the process, she moved to Memphis with her boyfriend and stepped back from music. She began working in retail, started studying fashion design, and began a modeling career. She later started her own company, Moorhead Apparel, with a focus on men’s clothing. Also, she has made appearances in a number of studio and student films.
Later music career
In 2010, she rededicated herself to music, beginning to work on her debut solo album, Blue, where she wrote all the tracks. It was released in 2011, The New Yorker called it a “solid collection of original songs, with occasional nods to her father’s trance blues.”
During this time she formed the trio Girls With Guitars with musicians Dani Wilde and Samantha Fish. They released an eponymous album in 2011, afterward beginning to tour. While she mostly writes her own material, Taylor has also reworked songs by artists as diverse as Nine Inch Nails and Muddy Waters.
Out Of My Mind (2013)
By 2012 she had moved to Kansas City, Missouri and started mixing tracks for her sophomore album. Originally financed through the proceeds of her husband selling his car, she was signed by Yellow Dog Records during the production process. Most of the recording took place at Immersive Studios in Boulder, where she had previously worked.
She wrote, arranged, produced, and sang all tracks, also providing a bass guitar, piano, Hammond organ, and theremin. The band she formed for the album and live performances include Larry Thompson on drums and Steve Mignano on guitar, as well as Jon Gray on trumpet. The 12-track album, Out Of My Mind, was released on May 7, 2013.
Music video
A music video for the first track, “That’s My Man,” was shot in Memphis early in 2013. About the video, which she dedicated to friends in the modeling industry who were LGBTQ, “In the video, there are four different ‘males.’ There are the muscle cars, which represent the personification of the traditional male, a man, a transgendered [sic] (female to male), and a drag queen. All of them represent different forms of male, whether it be mental, physical or spiritual.” She earned positive reviews earning sound comparisons to Diana Ross and the Supremes, Janis Joplin, and Gladys Knight.
Cassie Taylor Net Worth
Taylor is a singer-songwriter and blues musician, whose musical career is her primary source of income. However, her estimated net worth is still under review but will be updated as soon as it is clear.