Exclusively on MONO: Cassie Taylor, Live in Studio

Cassie sent me a song that she had recorded at Sound Pure. This has to be the start of a very promising career for Cassie. She truly is the daughter of a blues man.



"Cassie is the daughter of Blues Music Award winner Otis Taylor. And when Dad tapped her to be in his band four and a half years ago, it didn’t go down smoothly. “My dad came to me and said, ‘Cassie, if you ever want to get any money from me again, you’re going to learn to play bass, and you’re going to come with me this summer.’ I was like, ‘Oh, crap!’

“He turned on a lot of parental guilt, and I hated him for it,” she says. Cassie was in a middle school world of rock, punk, and underground hip hop. “I was the tallest person (in my class), and I had freckles and red frizzy hair, but to add (playing in my father’s band) on top of it was like a little much, and I learned how to keep my mouth shut.” Now, she looks back on her father’s invitation as the best parenting move he ever made."