Dallas Taylor (drummer)

Dallas Woodrow Taylor Jr. (April 7, 1948 – January 18, 2015)[1] was an American session drummer who played drums on several rock albums in the 1960s and 1970s.

Taylor was born in Denver but grew up in Phoenix and San Antonio, Texas, where he played with Shades McRay and the Invictas.

He achieved some success with psychedelic rock band Clear Light in the late 1960s,[4] but is best remembered as the drummer on Crosby, Stills and Nash's debut album,[5] and their follow-up with Neil Young, Déjà Vu (1970), and was given a front-sleeve credit along with Motown bassist Greg Reeves.

[9] After he was diagnosed with liver disease in 1989, musicians held a 1990 benefit concert to pay for a transplant, including David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young, as well as Don Henley and Eddie Van Halen.

[11] Taylor died on January 18, 2015, of complications from viral pneumonia and kidney disease, aged 66.