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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

Shemekia Copeland: Never Going Back

There’s no denying that this 30-year-old blues belter has...  read more