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Respect the Dead

Otis Taylor

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Otis Taylor might well be the best and most inspired of contemporary bluesmen. His White African album was a masterpiece -- which makes the task of following it doubly difficult. With Respect the Dead, however, he does a superb job -- the man is still very much on a roll. Kicking off with the stark, banjo-led "Ten Million Slaves," the intensity level never dips. It doesn't matter whether he's basing a song around a single chord, as he does on "Hands on Your Stomach," or simply using voice and harmonica on "Baby So," there's a remarkable urgency about his singing and lyrics, never more so than with "Black Witch," a tale of the American South that goes right back to Africa -- but the album returns and takes its tone to Mexico and racing for "Three Stripes on a Cadillac." The support, from Kenny Passarelli, Cassie Taylor, and atmospheric lead guitarist Eddie Turner, always serves to push the tension of the songs even higher. Taylor doesn't work within standard blues structures, and his lyrics stray far from the standard blues lines to encompass history and mythology. Where others seem content with the established limits, Taylor is pushing them further and further -- and in doing so, he's making some of the most exciting music around.

© Chris Nickson /TiVo

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1
Ten Million Slaves
00:03:18

Otis Taylor, Composer, MainArtist - Northern Blues Music Inc, MusicPublisher

2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

2
Hands On Your Stomach
00:04:07

Otis Taylor, Composer, MainArtist - Northern Blues Music Inc, MusicPublisher

2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

3
Changing Rules
00:03:15

Otis Taylor, Composer, MainArtist - Northern Blues Music Inc, MusicPublisher

2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

4
32nd Time
00:04:02

Otis Taylor, Composer, MainArtist - Northern Blues Music Inc, MusicPublisher

2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

5
Baby So
00:02:41

Otis Taylor, Composer, MainArtist - Northern Blues Music Inc, MusicPublisher

2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

6
Shaker Woman
00:03:58

Otis Taylor, Composer, MainArtist - Northern Blues Music Inc, MusicPublisher

2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

7
Black Witch
00:05:02

Otis Taylor, Composer, MainArtist - Northern Blues Music Inc, MusicPublisher

2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

8
Seven Hours Of Light
00:03:35

Otis Taylor, Composer, MainArtist - Northern Blues Music Inc, MusicPublisher

2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

9
I Like You, But I Don't Love You
00:03:05

Otis Taylor, Composer, MainArtist - Northern Blues Music Inc, MusicPublisher

2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

10
Jump Jelly Belly
00:02:09

Otis Taylor, Composer, MainArtist - Northern Blues Music Inc, MusicPublisher

2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

11
Three Stripes on a Cadillac
00:03:16

Otis Taylor, Composer, MainArtist - Northern Blues Music Inc, MusicPublisher

2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

12
Just Live Your Life
00:03:21

Otis Taylor, Composer, MainArtist - Northern Blues Music Inc, MusicPublisher

2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

Album review

Otis Taylor might well be the best and most inspired of contemporary bluesmen. His White African album was a masterpiece -- which makes the task of following it doubly difficult. With Respect the Dead, however, he does a superb job -- the man is still very much on a roll. Kicking off with the stark, banjo-led "Ten Million Slaves," the intensity level never dips. It doesn't matter whether he's basing a song around a single chord, as he does on "Hands on Your Stomach," or simply using voice and harmonica on "Baby So," there's a remarkable urgency about his singing and lyrics, never more so than with "Black Witch," a tale of the American South that goes right back to Africa -- but the album returns and takes its tone to Mexico and racing for "Three Stripes on a Cadillac." The support, from Kenny Passarelli, Cassie Taylor, and atmospheric lead guitarist Eddie Turner, always serves to push the tension of the songs even higher. Taylor doesn't work within standard blues structures, and his lyrics stray far from the standard blues lines to encompass history and mythology. Where others seem content with the established limits, Taylor is pushing them further and further -- and in doing so, he's making some of the most exciting music around.

© Chris Nickson /TiVo

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2001 Northern Blues Music Inc 2001 Northern Blues Music Inc

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