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Otis Taylor: Clovis People Vol. 3

Bluesmith preaches with more than his words Otis Taylor is one of our most vital bluesmen, but his best stuff doesn’t pack an immediate wallop so much as it sidles up and gets you tapping your foot. With Clovis People Vol. 3 (don’t look for 1 or 2), he mostly scraps the lighter flourishes of 2009’s Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs and returns to his day job of using grimy blues to catalog the skeletons in society’s closet. With subjects like school shootings and pointed tracks like “Babies Don’t Lie,” Taylor gives special attention here to the innocence of children,...  read more

Otis Taylor: Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs

Otis Taylor’s challenge as a bluesman in 2009 is...  read more

Blues Music Awards Performers to include Irma Thomas, Taj Mahal, Bettye LaVette, more

It's not that common for one to present an award bearing their own name, but that's exactly what the legendary B.B. King will do May 7 in Memphis, Tenn. at the 30th annual Blues Music Awards, where one nominee will be handed the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award by the man himself....  read more

Otis Taylor - Below the Fold

Contemporary songwriter testifies to the blues’ continued vitality  read more

Bluesman Otis Taylor to honor civil rights workers

Bluesman Otis Taylor will perform during the upcoming conference, "Unsettling Memories: Culture and Trauma in the Deep South." The event—which will be held at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss.—honors the lives of Civil Rights Workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner on the 40th anniversary of their deaths. Unsettling Memories occurs from June 15-21 during "Juneteenth" the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery. For more info, visit www.tulane.edu/~memories. Taylor, the only musician performing during the convention, is noted for his Afrocentric themes and "gimlet-eyed lyrics about race relations in America" (New Yorker). His songs...  read more