Otis Taylor: Contraband on CD
Contraband
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
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- Label:
- Telarc
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2012
- UPC/EAN:
- 0888072331884
- Release date:
- 27.2.2012
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Otis Taylor ist einer der innovativsten Blues-Künstler der letzten 20 Jahre (Billboard).
Es gibt viele Blues-Sänger, jedes Jahr Hunderte von Blues-Platten, aber es gibt nur einen Interpreten wie Otis Taylor. Und der zornige Mann aus Chicago versetzt mit seinen Songs dem Blues neue Vitaminstöße. Der Sänger, Gitarrist, Mundharmonika und Mandoline spielende Komponist nennt viele Dinge beim Namen, beschreibt soziale Abgründe, füllt seine Texte mit brisanten, spannenden Inhalten. Und er wird mit jeder neuen Produktion ehrlicher, zwingender, noch überzeugender.
Otis Taylor ist ein musikalischer Alchemist und wahrer Innovator. Er ist ein Meister, der seinen ureigenen Trance Blues-Stil durch Verschmelzung eindringlicher Gitarre und Banjo, Arbeit, synkopierten Rhythmen und einer Kombination aus ruppigen Gesang geschaffen hat.
Otis veröffentlicht mit Contraband sein bisher kommerziellsten Trance Blues Album. Das Thema ist vertrautes Terrain: Liebe, soziale Ungerechtigkeiten, persönlichen Dämonen und Krieg.
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Otis Taylor isn't defined by any single category. A musical alchemist and a true innovator, Taylor has never been afraid to experiment beyond the blues tradition. He's a master craftsman who has created his own signature "trance blues" style by melding haunting guitar and banjo work, syncopated rhythms and a combination of gruff vocals, shouts and yells with raw passion. Otis Taylor's Contraband offers 14 compelling originals. "The Devil's Gonna Lie," a rousing showcase for the entire band, opens the album with Taylor's trademark howls and a demonic laugh. As he writes in the liner notes, "When there is peace, the devil wants war. When there is love, the devil wants hate." On "Yell Your Name," one of the project's original seven acoustic tunes, Taylor sings about a man wants his lover to come back.
"When I sing, I just do what I do," Taylor says. "Whatever comes out - that's the way I leave it. And if I make a mistake, I leave it in. I like to keep the emotion." Otis Taylor's Contraband is evidence of that. The subject matter on Taylor's new album is familiar terrain as he sings of love, social injustices, personal demons and war. The album takes its title from an article that appeared in the May / June 2011 issue of Preservation Magazine about runaway slaves who during the American Civil War escaped to the Union lines at Fort Monroe, VA. Known as "contraband," they lived in camps where conditions were often worse than life on the plantation.
Otis Taylor's Contraband isn't just speaking to the African American experience, but to the entire human experience. "I'm not really a protest singer or even a very political person," says Taylor. "I just try to tell an interesting story and let people interpret it as they wish." The iconoclastic bluesman is reunited with several longtime collaborators including the supple-toned Ron Miles on cornet, pedal steel guitarist Chuck Campbell from American Sacred Steel gospel group The Campbell Brothers, djembe player Fara Tolno, a master drummer born in Guinea, West Africa, fiddler Anne Harris from Chicago, IL and the Sheryl Renee Choir. Bass is handled by Taylor's daughter Cassie and Todd Edmunds. Rounding out the band are Jon Paul Johnson on guitar, Brian Juan on organ, and Larry Thompson, former house drummer for Colorado's world-renowned Caribou Ranch recording studio. (concordmusicgroup. com)
Rezensionen
,,Auf dem ,,Contraband" -Album verleiht der Mann aus Chicago dem Trance Blues wiederum frische Impulse mit genrefremden Beigaben." (Stereo, Juni 2012)
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 The Devil's Gonna Lie
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2 Yell Your Name
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3 Look to the Side
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4 Romans Had Their Way
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5 Blind Piano Teacher
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6 Banjo Boogie Blues
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7 2 or 3 Times
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8 Contraband Blues
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9 Lay On My Delta Bed
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10 Your 10 Dollar Bill
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11 Open These Bars
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12 Yellow Car, Yellow Dog
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13 Never Been to Africa
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14 I Can See You're Lying
