🎤 Dudley Taft

About

Dudley Taft (Washington D.C., 1966) is an American blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter who grew up in the Midwest and studied at Berklee College of Music. In the 1990s he played with Seattle bands Sweet Water and Second Coming, touring with Alice in Chains and placing songs on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts. Since 2006 he has led the Dudley Taft Band, releasing ten studio albums that blend delta blues, Southern rock and traces of Seattle grunge. He was nominated for Best Guitarist at the European Blues Awards in 2017, and in June 2025 his album The Speed of Life reached number one on the US Blues Rock Albums chart.