Otis Taylor
- Genre:
- Blues
- Meta styles:
- Early Acoustic Blues, Electric Blues, Modern Electric Blues
Otis Taylor's career in music performance and recording has taken a circuitous path. Born in Chicago 1948, and growing up in Denver after his family relocated there, he began listening to blues and folk-blues in his teens. Through Denver's Folklore Center, he began to play the blues. By 1977, though, he "retired" from music and had a successful antiques business. He returned to music when he was nearly 50, and having immersed himself in the history of the folklore of the blues...
His music is uncompromising and fierce, and it walks the line of gritty and gorgeous well. He incorporates elements of the blues masters Johnson, Jefferson, McTell and others, but always makes the resulting music his own.
His return to performance and recording began in 1995, but it was his acceptance of a Sundance Festival composition fellowship in 2000 that sparked his emergence as a preeminent bluesman with When Negroes Walked the Earth.
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Fantasizing About Being Black
- Year:
- 2017
- Tracks:
- 11
- Bitrate:
- 320 kbps
Hey Joe Opus Red Meat
- Year:
- 2015
- Tracks:
- 10
- Bitrate:
- 320 kbps
My World Is Gone
- Year:
- 2013
- Tracks:
- 13
- Bitrate:
- 320 kbps
Otis Taylor's Contraband
- Year:
- 2012
- Tracks:
- 14
- Bitrate:
- 320 kbps
Clovis People Vol. 3
- Year:
- 2010
- Tracks:
- 12
- Bitrate:
- 320 kbps
Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs
- Year:
- 2009
- Tracks:
- 13
- Bitrate:
- 320 kbps
Recapturing The Banjo
- Year:
- 2008
- Tracks:
- 14
- Bitrate:
- 320 kbps
Definition Of A Circle
- Year:
- 2006
- Tracks:
- 12
- Bitrate:
- 320 kbps
Below The Fold
- Year:
- 2005
- Tracks:
- 10
- Bitrate:
- 320 kbps
Double V
- Year:
- 2004
- Tracks:
- 12
- Bitrate:
- 320 kbps
Alvin Youngblood Hart 5
Junior Kimbrough 8
Coco Montoya 14
John Hammond Jr. 1
Rory Block 29
Tab Benoit 16
J.B. Lenoir 12
Richie Havens 29
Ry Cooder 65
Benjamin Booker 3
Duke Robillard 27
Exuma 5
Taj Mahal 57
Tony Joe White 45
Warren Haynes 10
Alabama Shakes 12
Chris Whitley 11
Corey Harris 12
Gary Clark Jr. 15
Guitar Shorty 12
Keb' Mo' 21
Langhorne Slim 9
Rhiannon Giddens 6
Smokin' Joe Kubek 3