Inspired by blues instrumentalist Elizabeth Cotten and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Taussig took up banjo and 12-string guitar and performed on radio station KPFK’s Midnight Special folk music program.
Issued on a private label, few copies of the original record existed, making it a collectors item for fans of what would later be called American primitive and fingerstyle guitar.
[3] The following year Taussig recorded two songs for the compilation Contemporary Guitar: Spring '67 for John Fahey's Takoma label.
The album featured similar American primitive guitarists, including Fahey, Max Ochs, Robbie Basho and Bukka White.
In summers, he worked with photographers John Upton, Minor White, Ansel Adams, Paul Caponigro, Oliver Gagliani, and others.
[7] As a visual artist, Taussig has produced a series of illuminated books of classic works including Dante’s The Divine Comedy, James Joyce’s Ulysses, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, among others.