I`ve noticed that you have developed a following.  
It seems that you are real personable and havea great report with all your fans.
How does that make you feel?
It`s great.  I mean, it`s been funny, like we will be downtown walking around and people come up to me and they say, “Aren`t you Taylor Williams?”   I`ll say, yeah. (Shy grin.)  I don`t think about it like I`m TAYLOR WILLIAMS; I`m just the guy up there that plays guitar.  It`s been real cool.  Especially people like you, who have been watching us for a long time and they know that they have seen transitions.  Getting bigger and better so far, broadening our horizons I should say.

Do you have a favorite place to play?  
Do you concentrate on the Metroplex or do you travel much outside of the Metroplex?
We just started with a new booking agent, David Hickey.  He`s booked everybody from Charlie Sexton to Monte Montgomery, Delbert McClinton.  He`s booked many, many acts from Texas.  He started working with us not too long ago.  So we are about to start doing the whole circuit.  This summer we are going to work on doing that more.  As far as a favorite place to play, I don`t think I have one cause every room has a different vibe that sometimes makes you play differently.  You know, just the way the room is set up.  Caravan is a great place to play.  We play the Aardvark.  I grew up there.  I love playing that place, it`s so much fun.  Even Poor David`s, we`re new to it and there is so much history there. The sound system is great.  I don`t think I have a favorite place to play, but those are probably in the top ten.  Every place is different.

If you could play with anybody, anybody in the world, who would you play with?
Your favorite musicians, or favorite influences?
My influences, uh, Ian Moore is a very big influence.  He`s been a big influence on me both vocal and guitar wise.  Ian Moore and David Grissom.  David Grissom.  I`ve had a chance to play with him in the studio and that`s been great.  Right now, on the CD we are working with Rosco Beck.  In a guitarist magazine, I think it`s an English magazine actually, he was named one of the top five blues bass players of all times.  His picture was right next to Jack Bruce from Cream.  He`s playing bass on the CD.  Tommy Taylor is just an incredible drummer. He`s playing on the CD also.  As far as playing with Ian Moore, David Grissom, Charlie Sexton, there`s so many, Doyle Bramhall, Jeff Tweety.  Any of those guys, I`d be happy to share the stage with them.  

Tell me about you.  
What do you like to do outside of music?
Music has become my entire life.  When I`m not working on band stuff or writing, we are usually going to see bands. Sometimes you`ll just see random bands that are unbelievable just playing on a Tuesday night.  School takes up a lot of time, too.  Between playing music, going to school and going out once in a while, it keeps us pretty busy.

When you were thirteen and you decided that you wanted to play that guitar, did you just wake up one day and say “Dad I want a guitar”?
No, actually, when I was five I got a guitar for Christmas.  I tried to take lessons, but my hands weren`t big enough, I couldn`t play it, so I put it down.  I didn`t touch it.  I did touch it.  Actually I broke it screwing around with it when I was eight or nine.  I messed it up and there was no way I was playing that one so I got one for my thirteenth birthday.  I decided I wanted to start doing it.  I really wanted to start doing it, so after that I just locked myself in the bedroom every night and practiced.

Did you have formal lessons then?
I didn`t for the first year and a half.  I actually took lessons from Scott Frazier who lives right down the block from us actually.  He was an amazing teacher.  He could play any style of music.  Anything I wanted to know.  We would sit there for hours and hours just talking and showing me stuff.  I guess I took lessons from him for about a year and a half.  I took lessons from Bill Hamm and some other guys, one or two.  Scott was pretty much the one who I took from.  He was in a band called Space Opera in the mid-70`s.  He was on Columbia Records.  He`s got one album with all the Fort Worth guys.  He went to high school at Arlington Heights.  Really since then he got tired of the road, had a kid and just teaches guitar.  He`s amazing.  Now he`s always booked.  He`s a great guitar player, super nice guy, great teacher.  That`s the main thing.  There are a lot of good guitar players out there, but there are not a lot of guitar players that can teach.  That is the only formal training I`ve had.  It`s mainly going to concerts and watching what other guys are doing and listening to CD`s all the time.  Trying to figure out this, that.  That`s been the best thing, learning different types of music and how to incorporate it into your style.  In our music you`d never find the country in it, but I listen to a lot of guys like Roy Buchanan and Danny Gatton that are unbelievable country guitar players.  You can use that stuff in other types of music and it works really well.  There`s always something to learn, whether it`s classical.  There`s always something you don`t know.

It seems that your father is very involved in your music career.  Do you think that makes a special son and father relationship?
Ever since I was a little kid we`ve always been really close.  He`s always been my best friend.  People ask us how that works, “Is he your manager?”  He`s just being my Dad.  He`s always been like that whether we`re just playing T-Ball.  He`s always been my biggest supporter.  Definitely this deal would never work without that.  He`s a very good part of it.  It`s been the same ever since I was five.  It has nothing to really do with music. It`s just our relationship in general has always been like that.

Shortly after this interview Taylor opened for Ian Moore at Caravan of Dreams.