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Otis Taylor Announces Trance Jam Blues Festival Lineup, November 25-27
Bob Margolin, Tony Trischka, Don Vappie, George Porter Jr., Standing Bear and Cassie Taylor to appear at Thanksgiving weekend event in Boulder, Colorado Musicians, educators, singers and fans are invited to participate BOULDER, Colo.—The first annual Otis Taylor Trance Blues Jam Festival is a weekend of public workshops and jams for musicians and fans of all ...
Otis Taylor's 'Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs' Due out June 23
No one ever accused blues singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Otis Taylor of overindulging in the happier aspects of the human condition. His songs are often peopled with characters whose emotional landscapeno matter how raw or dark is laid bare for all to experience, and the story is often less than pretty. But if love in any or all of ...
Otis Taylor: Recapturing the Banjo
by AAJ Italy Staff
“Se chiedete a qualcuno dove pensa che sia nato il banjo a cinque corde, sicuramente vi risponderà che proviene dal Kentucky o dalla Carolina del Nord”. Dick Weissman, che di folk revival se ne intende, non ha dubbi nell’indicare le strade della verità storica del banjo. Poi c’è quella canzoncina, “Oh Susanna”, scritta da uno dei ...
Double V
By Otis Taylor
Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Please Come Home Before It Rains; Took Their Land; Plastic Spoon; Mama
Otis Taylor: Double V
by Jim Santella
Backed by acoustic strings of the more intimate sort, Otis Taylor interprets his original blues tunes sincerely. His homespun voice has a little grit in it. There’s nothing fake about the way Taylor explains it. With blues harp in hand, he takes over with timeless tales and new twists. Bringing in rotating cellists to ...
Truth Is Not Fiction
By Otis Taylor
Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Rosa; Kitchen Towel; Comb Your Brown Hair; Babies Don
Otis Taylor: Truth Is Not Fiction
by Jim Santella
Moving comfortably between acoustic and contemporary electric blues, Otis Taylor brings us an exciting new album with social commentary laced all the way through. This is his fifth album. The seasoned bluesman’s passionate volume of adventurous storytellin’ garnered several W.C. Handy Award nominations this year. Taylor, 55, grew up in Chicago and Denver. His first love ...
