Otis Taylor
Otis Taylor
Genres: blues, folk, acoustic, singer-songwriter, rock
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About Otis Taylor
Otis Taylor is an American blues musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist whose talents include the guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, and vocals. In 2001, he was awarded a fellowship to the Sundance Film Composers Laboratory. 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, he traced the migration of both the blues and the banjo from its roots in Africa to its "birth" in the American south. 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. His song, 'Nasty Letter', plays over the credits at the end of the 2007 Mark Wahlberg film Shooter.
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Otis Taylor — Top 30 songs of 125
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otis Taylor | Roll Down the Hill | ||
| Otis Taylor | Tripping on This | ||
| Otis Taylor | My World is Gone | ||
| Otis Taylor | Ten Million Slaves/2002 | ||
| Otis Taylor | Heart Is a Muscle Used to Play the Blues | ||
| Otis Taylor | 12 Feet Under | ||
| Otis Taylor | Blind Man | ||
| Otis Taylor | Hey Joe (A) | ||
| Otis Taylor | Hey Joe (B) | ||
| Otis Taylor | Hit From The Left | ||
| Otis Taylor | Little Willie | ||
| Otis Taylor | Live Your Life | ||
| Otis Taylor | Nasty Letter | ||
| Otis Taylor | Red Meat | ||
| Otis Taylor | Sunday Morning (C) | ||
| Otis Taylor | The Heart is a Muscle (Used for the Blues) | ||
| Otis Taylor | They Wore Blue | ||
| Otis Taylor | Travel Guide | ||
| Otis Taylor | Write A Book About It | ||
| Otis Taylor | Hands On Your Stomach | ||
| Otis Taylor | Recapturing the Banjo | ||
| Otis Taylor | Recapturing the Banjo | ||
| Otis Taylor | Recapturing The Banjo | ||
| Otis Taylor | Blue Rain in Africa | ||
| Otis Taylor | Recapturing The Banjo | ||
| Otis Taylor | Truth Is Not Fiction | ||
| Otis Taylor | Truth Is Not Fiction | ||
| Otis Taylor | Truth Is Not Fiction | ||
| Otis Taylor | White African | ||
| Otis Taylor | Ten Million Slaves |