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Otis Taylor
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MAY
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Denver, CO
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Aurore
October 6th 2022
Un artiste incroyable qui prend encore la peine de se déplacer depuis le Colorado jusqu'à Paris a 74ans. Une présence et un charisme comme aucun autre qui regroupe tous les âges !
Paris, France@New Morning
About Otis Taylor
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, 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. 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 music is uncompromising and fierce. 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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Genres:
Blues
Hometown:
Chicago, Illinois
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Otis Taylor Collection
$14.08
Truth Is Not Fiction
$10.98
Otis Taylor's Contraband
$14.98
Fantisizing About Being Black
$18.98
White African
$18.86
Respect the Dead
$13.69
Recapturing the Banjo
$13.70
My World Is Gone
$14.98
Definition Of A Circle
$16.70
Clovis People, Vol. 3
$21.16
concerts and tour dates
Past
MAY
16
2024
Denver, CO
Dazzle Denver
I Was There
MAY
20
2023
Denver, CO
Dazzle Denver
I Was There
DEC
29
2022
Denver, CO
Dazzle Denver
I Was There
DEC
21
2022
Basel, Switzerland
Volkshaus Basel
I Was There
DEC
18
2022
Basel, Switzerland
Volkshaus Basel
I Was There
DEC
17
2022
Basel, Switzerland
Volkshaus Basel
I Was There
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Fan Reviews
Aurore
October 6th 2022
Un artiste incroyable qui prend encore la peine de se déplacer depuis le Colorado jusqu'à Paris a 74ans. Une présence et un charisme comme aucun autre qui regroupe tous les âges !
Paris, France@New Morning
About Otis Taylor
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, 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. 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 music is uncompromising and fierce. 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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Genres:
Blues
Hometown:
Chicago, Illinois
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