Otis Taylor
Gospel - Blues - Soul - Funk - Hiphop
Otis Taylor (vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo, harmonica, mandolin); Eddie Turner (guitar); Kenny Passarelli (bass, keyboards).
Fri 11 July 2003 20:30 - 21:45 Paulus Potter Hall
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Chicago born guitarist Otis Taylor first made a noise in the world in the sixties with his Otis Taylor Blues Band and his membership of the T&O Short Line with singer/guitarist Tommy Bolin. Afterward it would take another twenty years for Taylor to reappear in the music industry, encouraged by his mentor and producer Kenny Pasarelli. Just like John Lee Hooker Taylor uses only one chord in his songs, enhanced with some bass-lines. That could be heard on the '98 album When Negroes Walked The Earth - minimal blues a la John Lee Hooker. The sequel White African contained even more gloomy and spooky subjects. Taylor cannot write positive songs, is his own comment. His songs handle short, dark narratives about death, loneliness and disease. Actually his music is one long road of agony. But he sings about it in a powerful way.
