Tansini “Blues Garage” 2011 Italy Electric Blues

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“Blues garage” is the second solo album by Marco Tansini, following the first release “American places”. This new album is a journey into the Blues and all of its shades and contaminations, represented here by different colours, from funk to rock and even swing. 
Marco is known around the world not only as a producer and songwriter but even as a great guitar player and in this new release he shows the more authentic and genuine side of himself. 11 tracks that give life to a guitar album which is refined and polished while, at the same time, minimal and direct, based upon a production that tends to put emphasis to the “live” spirit of this release. 
Far from being an experiment of music archeology, “Blues garage” is the personal interpretation of different kind of blues, where the only trademark is the performance’s and songwriting’s high quality level!…~


Believe me, if I could give this 100 stars instead of 5, I would. Tansini, where have you been all my life? I am in love. Blues Garage has got to be one of the (if not THE) best instrumental albums out there. Every single track will transport the listener into pure heaven. His guitar sings, weeps, and rejoices like nobody’s business, and the background of organ and drums is fabulous. I can’t stop playing this CD and every play gets even better (how can that be??). Oh yes, hear me yell, “Saints alive! And the saint is playing!” 
If you love superb guitar playing, and you love blues instrumentals that will dig into your soul, this will knock your socks off. Whew, guaranteed….by..Jenny D…~

This guitarist from Northern Italy has released his second album chock full of interesting instrumentals, all derived from blues in some manner. His song titles are all colors and reflect various shades of the blues including rock, jazz, and beyond. The record started simply enough, but there is a nice subtle melodicism to his playing and his writing that pulled me in. I hear so much of this material, that I often treat it as background music. Yet Tansini has a certain skill to present very simple elegant music and commandeer a listener’s attention. Nicely done! …by…David Hintz…~


Credits 

Marco Tansini: guitar 
Gianni Grecchi: bass 
Paolo Apollo Negri: Hammond organ 
Paolo Botteschi: drums


Tracklist 
B1 –Marco Tansini Brown 4:29 
B2 –Marco Tansini Cherry 4:01 
B3 –Marco Tansini Blues Garage 4:40 
B4 –Marco Tansini Orange 4:56 
B5 –Marco Tansini Green 4:56 
B6 –Marco Tansini Yellow 4:47 
B7 –Marco Tansini Amber 4:19 
B8 –Marco Tansini Purple 4:50 
B9 –Marco Tansini White 4:14 
B10 –Marco Tansini Black 6:24 

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Junior Parker “Love Ain’t Nothin’ But A Business Goin’ On” 1971 US Soul Funk Blues

Junior Parker “Love Ain’t Nothin’ But A Business Goin’ On” 1971 US Soul Funk Blues

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One of the funkiest albums ever from Junior Parker – a great little set that shows he had a lot more to offer than just the average bluesman! The album’s got a nice little soul sound in the backings – tight rhythms from Horace Ott, who nicely avoids a lot of the cliches that the blues business was hitting at the time – in order to keep Junior in hip territory that’s filled with breaking drums and heavy basslines! There’s a few key crossover tracks here, plus some surprisingly sweeter numbers – and the album’s a gem through and through – well-appreciated by new generations over the years, thanks to its diversity of tracks!….~

Junior Parker does not appear to play any harmonica on LOVE AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT A BUSINESS GOIN’ ON but it is his vocals that take center stage. 
It did not take long for me to remember upon hearing “Darling Depend On Me” that Junior Parker wrote and performed “Stand By Me” in 1960 (Ben E. King’s eventual smash hit). Although Parker is credited with writing only one song (“The Outside Man”) it appears this album was produced to give Junior that big hit he deserved. There are two others songs that also have that ‘hit’ love, broken heart song potential “I Wonder Where our Love has Gone” and “You Know I Love You” complete with pretty or aching 'orchestra of strings’ and/or the wail of the 'in-love’ saxophone. 
It’s too bad there are no band credits for these respectable session players although there, apparently, is more than a rumor the electric guitarist is O'donnel Levy(?) 
But, this 1971 recording delivers a funky bass when needed and three new versions of songs written by three ex-Beatles that are all given a R & B feel, especially the slowed down dialogue beat of “Taxman”. Quite unique. 
I’ve also heard “The River’s Invitation” before and this also has a fine modern R & B feel to what had basically been a blues song. 
All and all, I have never been a big fan of the R & B sound but This “Business” is just difficult not to listen to – again. 
As far as I know LOVE AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT A BUSINESS GOIN’ ON was not a successful 70’s album hit. Difficult to understand why it was not (a 70’s hit). 
After listening to Junior’s “can you dig it vocals” I don’t recalling ever feeling so retro-hip in my life. 
I had some reservations about 10 songs covering 34 minutes for 17 bucks. But, not after listening — again and again — to Junior Parker’s everyman, honeyed, heartfelt vocals … 'Sweet’, smooth and groovin’…..by… a walther…~

Tracklist 
A1 Love Ain’t Nothin’ But A Business Goin’ On (Written-By: Bobby Adams (2)) 3:20 
A2 The Outside Man (Written-By: Parker Written-By: Van Leer Written-By: Moore) 3:12 
A3 Darling Depend On Me (Written-By: D. Robey Written-By: F. Washington) 3:43 
A4 Taxman (Written-By: George Harrison) 3:42 
A5 Rivers Invitation (Written-By: Percy Mayfield) 2:45 
B1 I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone (Written-By: Buddy Johnson) 3:38 
B2 Just To Hold My Hand (Written-By: Don Robey) 3:51 
B3 You Know I Love You (Written-By: R. King Written-By: J. Taub) 3:33 
B4 Lady Madonna (Written-By: J. Lennon-P. McCartney) 2:12 
B5 Tomorrow Never Knows (Written-By: J. Lennon-P. McCartney) 3:25 

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Joe Bonamassa “British Blues Explosion Live” 2018 -3 LP`s 3 CD`s US Blues,Blues Rock

Joe Bonamassa “British Blues Explosion Live” 2018 -3 LP`s  3 CD`s US Blues,Blues Rock

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Joe Bonamassa, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated blues rock guitar icon, who recently shared news of his upcoming US tour for summer 2018, has announced the release of British Blues Explosion Live on Friday 18th May, available on CD/DVD/Blu-Ray & 3LP (Blue, Red & White) via J&R Adventures. Pre-order starts today here. 

Joe’s salute to the icons of British blues features the unbelievable music of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page! Joe recently paid tribute to his heroes during a short but very sweet tour of Britain – 5 performances only. This show was recorded at Greenwich Music Time at The Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London on July 7, 2016. 

Joe Bonamassa has been more influenced by the impact of British Blues than by any other music out there. From a young age, the musically inclined Joe fell in love with the hard-rocking, gritty, and pioneering sound that emanated from early 1960’s Britain. 

Joe’s admiration for legends Clapton, Beck, and Page reaches far deeper than any other musician from this influential era. For the first time, with this unforgettable performance, he was able to give special homage to the British guitarists who inspired him the most. 

The five-piece band included Michael Rhodes (Bass), Reese Wynans (Keyboards), Anton Fig (Drums) and Russ Irwin (Rhythm Guitar & Backing Vocals). 

Bonamassa passionately believes in the need for this and future generations of blues musicians to continue to explore the music of these three icons of blues history. “If it wasn’t for certain British musicians of the early 1960s, the Blues may very well never have exploded into Rock music as we know it today, and indeed may have passed into history,” says Joe. 

The explosion of British Blues that occurred in the 1960s built an essential bridge between the blues and rock music, two forms of popular music that have meant so much to so many people over the last century. 

When one thinks of the similarities between British Blues powerhouses Clapton, Beck, and Page, one is almost immediately drawn to think of the fact that they all held tenure in one of the most important – the most important, according to some people – blues bands that came out of Britain, The Yardbirds. However, the connection between these three guitarists lies so much deeper. All three of them, inspired so much by the American blues icons that came before them, have paved the way forward for Rock ‘n’ Roll and blues music. 

As one of the world’s leading guitarists and a passionate devotee to the sacred form of art that is the British Blues, there is no person more qualified to preach the British Blues than Joe Bonamassa. A Salute to the British Blues Explosion is a cross-generational musical moment that will be unlike anything else you’ve experienced. Go with Joe Bonamassa on a journey to re-discover the music of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, and fall in love with the British Blues all over again. 
“…massive blues-rock grooves, soaring vocals and of course, that immense electric guitar experience.” – Guitarist Magazine….~

This is exactly what it says on the tin.Joe takes some of the best blues from the 60’s and gives it the Bonamassa treatment. If you like both , you will not be disappointed. Love him or hate him you have to admire someone who can produce so many albums of consistently high quality. There is a certain irony to the fact that British groups like The Stones, John Mayall and Led Zeppelin took American blues music, gave it a modern twist, then sold it back to the Americans. Now Joe has taken that music, jazzed it up, and is selling it back to the Brits. Is it a coincidence that the album cover bears an uncanny resemblance to Disraeli Gears. Another reviewer mentioned the price of tickets for Joe’s shows.Well with all those albums and DVDs, I don’t have time to go to a live gig anymore….by…Peter….~

Joe Bonamassa, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated blues rock guitar icon, who will kick-off his UK and European tour March 9th, has announced the release of British Blues Explosion Live on Friday 18th May on CD/DVD/Blu-Ray & 3LP (Black / Red, White & Blue) via Mascot Label Group in Europe and J&R Adventures in North America.
The DVD and Blu-ray includes amazing bonus content such as Joe performing “Taxman” Live at the Cavern Club, Joe being honoured with a “Brick In The Wall”, the British Blues Explosion Explained by Mick Wall and a photo gallery of the British Blues Explosion UK Tour. 

A Salute to the British Blues Explosion, featuring the unbelievable music of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page! Joe pays tribute to his British Blues heroes during a short but very sweet tour of Britain – 5 performances only. This show was recorded at Greenwich Music Time at The Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London on July 7, 2016. 

Joe Bonamassa has been more influenced by the impact of British Blues than by any other music out there. From a young age, the musically inclined Joe fell in love with the hard-rocking, gritty and edgy sound that emanated from mid-1960’s Britain. This is especially true of the highly innovative and evocative guitar music produced by three of the field’s greatest heavyweights, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. With the deepest reverence for what these three men have accomplished and a true love of their music. 
Joe Bonamassa’s love of the British Blues is at the heart of his musical inspiration; and, for the first time, with this unforgettable performance he was able to give special homage to the British guitarists that inspired him, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. 
The five-piece band included Michael Rhodes (Bass), Reese Wynans (Keyboards), Anton Fig (Drums) and Russ Irwin (Rhythm Guitar & Backing Vocals)…..~

Guitar mastermind Joe Bonamassa, a young player with the childhood dream of playing music similar to legends like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix, was 22 when he inked a deal with Epic. Hailing from Utica, New York, Bonamassa could play the blues before he could drive a car. He first heard Stevie Ray Vaughan at age four and was instantly taken by Vaughan’s high-powered playing. At age eight, he opened for B.B. King, and at age 12, he was playing regularly around upstate New York. It was soon thereafter that Bonamassa hooked up with the band Bloodline, which featured other musicians’ sons: Waylon Krieger (Robby Krieger’s son), Erin Davis (Miles Davis’ drummer kid), and Berry Oakley, Jr. (son of the Allman Brothers bassist). Bloodline released a self-titled album, but Bonamassa wanted to move on. In summer 2000 he guested for Roger McGuinn on Jethro Tull’s summer tour, later releasing his debut solo album, A New Day Yesterday. Produced by longtime fan Tom Dowd, the album marked a move toward a more organic and rock-sounding direction. He put together a power trio with drummer Kenny Kramme and bassist Eric Czar and hit the road to support the album. 

Upon returning from the road, he hooked up with Dowd to record the muscular and sweeping studio disc So, It’s Like That and released a document of the tour, A New Day Yesterday Live. The following year, Bonamassa put out Blues Deluxe, featuring nine cover versions of blues classics alongside three originals. The muscular You & Me appeared in 2006, followed by the more acoustic-tinged Sloe Gin in 2007. A year later, Bonamassa released the two-disc live album Live from Nowhere in Particular, followed in 2009 by The Ballad of John Henry. Late in 2009 he released the DVD Live from the Royal Albert Hall with guest spots from Eric Clapton and Paul Jones. In 2010, the guitarist released his first disc for the Premier Artists label, Black Rock, featuring a guest appearance by B.B. King. It was followed by the debut album from Black Country Communion, a blues-rock supergroup that put him in the company of bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes, drummer Jason Bonham, and keyboardist Derek Sherinian. Bonamassa, ever the overachiever, released his earthy Dust Bowl in March of 2011, followed by Black Country Communion’s 2 in June and by his unique collaboration with vocalist Beth Hart on a searing collection of soul covers entitled Don’t Explain in September. 

In May of 2012, Bonamassa released Driving Towards the Daylight. The album reunited the guitarist with producer Kevin Shirley, who brought in Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford to play rhythm guitar on the 11 tracks. Driving Towards the Daylight was a significant blues hit – it topped the Billboard blues chart and debuted at number two on the overall British chart – and Bonamassa didn’t slow down. Early in 2013, he released a live CD/DVD set called An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House and prepared SeeSaw, a studio album of classic covers with vocalist Beth Hart. SeeSaw was released later in 2013, and Bonamassa and Hart followed it up with Live in Amsterdam in March of 2014. After the release of SeeSaw, Bonamassa returned to the studio once again with producer Shirley to record what would be his 11th solo studio album. As a thank-you to his fans for their continued support, Bonamassa announced that the album would be his first release to feature entirely original material. Different Shades of Blue appeared in the fall of 2014, featuring 11 new songs co-written by Bonamassa with various veteran Nashville songwriters. Another busy year followed in 2015, with Bonamassa playing on Mahalia Barnes’ Betty Davis tribute Ooh Yea! The Betty Davis Songbook and releasing two separate live collections: Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks in the spring and Live at Radio City Music Hall in the fall. 

Returning to Nashville, he recorded his studio follow-up to Different Shades of Blue, working with many of the same songwriters who’d appeared on that 2014 album. Blues of Desperation appeared in March 2016. Another live recording, Live at the Greek Theatre, which celebrated the work of blues legends such as B.B. King, Freddie King, and Albert King, followed that summer. At the beginning of that year, Bonamassa headed out on an all-acoustic tour that saw him performing some of his best-known material in a new way. The tour included two nights at the legendary Carnegie Hall in New York that were filmed and recorded for prosperity. The performances saw him backed by a full band alongside the likes of guest musicians Chinese cellist and erhuist Tina Guo and Egyptian percussionist and composer Hossam Ramzy. The recording, Live at Carnegie Hall: An Acoustic Evening, was released in mid-2017. Bonamassa re-teamed with Beth Hart for Black Coffee, an album of covers that was released in January 2018. ~ MacKenzie Wilson & Al Campbell…..~

Two-Time Grammy Nominated artist Joe Bonamassa Celebrating British Blues Explosion Recorded Live available on CD/DVD/Blu-ray and coloured vinyl. Out 18th may, pre-order available via Mascot Label Group. 

The album celebrating British Blues Explosion features songs written by legendary guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and more. The DVD & Blue-ray will includes amazing bonus content such as Joe performing “Taxman” Live at the Cavern Club, Joe being honoured with a “Brick In The Wall”, the British Blues Explosion Explained by Mick Wall and a photo gallery of the British Blues Explosion UK Tour. 

In 2016 for five shows Joe pays tribute to his British Blues heroes during a short but very sweet tour of Britain. This show was recorded at Greenwich Music Time at The Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London on July 7, 2016. Joe Bonamassa has been more influenced by the impact of British Blues than by any other music out there. From a young age, the musically inclined Joe fell in love with the hard-rocking, gritty and edgy sound that emanated from mid-1960’s Britain. This is especially true of the highly innovative and evocative guitar music produced by three of the field’s greatest heavyweights, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. With the deepest reverence for what these three men have accomplished and a true love of their music. Joe Bonamassa’s love of the British Blues is at the heart of his musical inspiration; and, for the first time, with this unforgettable performance he was able to give special homage to the British guitarists that inspired him, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. The five-piece band included Michael Rhodes (Bass), Reese Wynans (Keyboards), Anton Fig (Drums) and Russ Irwin (Rhythm Guitar & Backing Vocals). Joe passionately believes in the need for this and future generations of blues musicians to continue to explore the music of these three icons of blues history. “If it wasn’t for certain British musicians of the early 1960s, the Blues may very well never have exploded into Rock music as we know it today, and indeed may have passed into history,” says Joe…..by….Liz Aiken…..~

Track List 

1. Beck’s Bolero / Rice Pudding 
2. Mainline Florida 
3. Boogie With Stu 
4. Let Me Love You Baby 
5. Plynth (Water Down The Drain) 
6. Spanish Boots 
7. Double Crossing Time 
8. Motherless 
9. SWLABR 
10. Tea For One / I Can’t Quit You Baby 
11. Little Girl 
12. Pretending 
13. Black Winter / Django 
14. How Many More Times 

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Otis Taylor “White African” 2001 US Northern Blues,Acoustic Blues

Otis Taylor “White African” 2001 US  Northern Blues,Acoustic Blues

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Otis Taylor has a knack for interesting titles; Blue-Eyed Monster and When Negros Walked the Earth are among the CDs that the Denver bluesman recorded before White African. Taylor also has a knack for very dark and sobering themes – this 2001 release, in fact, is full of them. On White African, Taylor’s subject matter ranges from lynching in the Deep South (“Saint Martha Blues”) to homelessness (“Hungry People”) to being unable to afford health care for a sick, dying child (“3 Days and 3 Nights”). And Taylor doesn’t try to sugarcoat his often disturbing lyrics with happy melodies. Greatly influenced by John Lee Hooker, the very soulful Taylor often favors moody, dusky, haunting grooves. So White African is as dark musically as it is lyrically. Over the years, dark humor has played a major role in the blues – like country and hip-hop artists, bluesmen are known for finding a variety of humorous, clever ways to tell you how cruel and punishing life can be. But White African isn’t dark humored; it’s simply dark. This CD is also incredibly compelling, and it is enthusiastically recommended to those who don’t expect lighthearted escapism from all of their music….by Alex Henderson…~

Bluesman Otis Taylor never skirted tough subject matter in a career that took him from the Folklore Center in Denver to a brief stay in London, England, to retirement from music in 1977, to being a successful antiques broker and, since 1995, back again to the blues. Taylor’s 2001 album White African (Northern Blues Music), featuring Kenny Passarelli (bass, keyboards) and Eddie Turner (lead guitar), became his most direct and personal statement about the experiences of African-Americans. He addressed the lynching of his great-grandfather and the murder of his uncle. Brutality became his concern in songs about a black man executed in the ‘30s for a murder he did not commit, and about a father who could not afford doctor’s bills and and had to sit powerless watching his son die. Faith met Taylor’s irony in his vision of Jesus as a mortal man who looked for ways to avoid his crucifixion and in his take on romantic infidelity among common men. 

Taylor’s first album, Blue-Eyed Monster, and 1997’s When Negroes Walked the Earth also cast an uneasy spell on the blues world. Some of Taylor’s music would feel comfortable on the back roads of the Delta in the '20s and '30s. It came as no surprise when he interpreted Charley Patton’s “Stone Pony” on a Shanachie Records compilation, Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues: New Acoustic Recordings of Pre-War Blues Classics, which also featured popular blues performers such as Alvin Youngblood Hart, John Hammond, Duke Robillard, and Corey Harris. At other times, Taylor’s music was so uncompromisingly contemporary in its outlook on social injustices that he seemed more akin to South African poet and activist Stephen Biko. 

Taylor was born in Chicago in 1948. After his uncle was murdered, his family moved to Denver for apparent safe haven. Taylor took an interest in blues and folk music at Denver’s Folklore Center. After hearing Etta James sing “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You,” Taylor knew he liked the blues. He then went to the Folklore Center, where he heard the banjo, country blues, and Mississippi John Hurt. He also liked Junior Wells and Muddy Waters and got into folk-blues and Appalachian music. He learned to play guitar, banjo, and harmonica. Only several decades later did he begin to understand the ties of the blues and its instrumentation to the savannah of western Africa. 

By his mid-teens, he formed his first groups – the Butterscotch Fire Department Blues Band and later, the Otis Taylor Blues Band. He briefly stayed in England in 1969 to pursue a record deal with Blue Horizon, but negotiations failed and he returned to the U.S. In the '70s, he took up mandolin. He decided to leave music behind in 1976 and started a successful career as an antiques broker. After much prodding from Passarelli, Taylor returned to music in 1995. He first played a benefit concert. Then he started to play again both solo and with his band in America and Europe. In the summer of 2000, he received a composition fellowship from the Sundance Institute in Park City, Utah, and hobnobbed with film celebrities at the Sundance Film Festival. 

His When Negroes Walked the Earth was released on Shoelace Records that same year. Taylor began participating in “Writing the Blues” in the Blues in the Schools program, sponsored by the National Blues Foundation, and he started writing and performing new songs in 2001. White African and Respect the Dead were released by Northern Blues in 2001 and 2002, respectively, followed by Taylor’s first release on Telarc Blues, Truth Is Not Fiction, in 2003. A second album on Telarc, Double V, came out in 2004, followed by Below the Fold in 2005 and Definition of a Circle two years later. The revelatory Recapturing the Banjo appeared in 2008, again from Telarc. The dark and jazzy Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs followed in 2009. Taylor wasted no time and followed it up with 2010’s Clovis People, Vol. 3 (volumes one and two do not exist). The musicians he assembled for the date are a testament to his ever-widening and eclectically expansive musical vision: daughter Cassie Taylor plays bass, and famed electric guitarist Gary Moore plays lead guitar; pedal steel guitarist Chuck Campbell and jazz trumpeter/cornetist Ron Miles are also featured on the recording. 

In 2010, after complaining of back pain, Taylor saw a doctor, who concluded he had a softball-sized cyst on his liver and spine. After scheduling surgery, he immediately entered a studio to cut new tracks “just in case.” Thankfully, Taylor survived, and completed work on Contraband, which was issued by Telarc in early 2012. For 2013’s My World Is Gone, the songwriter enlisted a larger band that included Ron Miles and Mato Nanji, lead guitarist from the band Indigenous. The 2015 album Hey Joe Opus: Red Meat featured cameos from Langhorne Slim and Warren Haynes, while 2017’s Fantasizing About Being Black found Taylor exploring contemporary race relations via a set of exploratory blues. ~ Robert Hicks…..~

Otis Taylor’s White African is one of the more haunting blues albums to be released in recent memory. Throughout the disc, Taylor digs deep into the heart and soul of the genre to tell tales of the downtrodden — the sick, the dying, the homeless — through the broader themes of bigotry, injustice, and heartache. There is sense of anger and disgust that bubbles just below the surface of the songs, allowing them to continue to resonate long after they’ve been played. 

Much of White African is sparsely recorded and sounds as if it was written on a Louisiana back porch many years ago. It largely recalls the minimalist blues of John Lee Hooker in the way that Taylor traverses each tracks’ soulful single-chord droning by deftly accompanying himself on guitar, banjo, mandolin, or harmonica. Even when other musicians are employed, they merely add subtleties to his songs. Guitarist Eddie Taylor provides a eerie wail of electric slide to Resurrection Blues, vocalist Cassie Taylor adds ghostly wisps to 3 Days and 3 Nights, and the sound of Kenny Passarelli’s sturdy slogging bass accents, rather than colors, Taylor’s rhythmic flourishes. White African is not the roadhouse blues of a Saturday night party. It’s the chillingly painful, singularly personal, and downright funereal blues that explains why a person might drink alone ….by John Metzger….~


“Taylor is a Colorado bluesman whose razor-edged message of human dignity slices to the blues idiom’s very heart of darkness. In a case-hardened social-expressionist mode, Taylor offers a merciless, brilliant minimalist deconstruction of racism, lynching ("St. Martha’s Blues”, based on his own great-grandfather’s end, as told by his grandmother), poverty, illness, homelessness, and other institutionalized features of the American social formation. Taylor stands to fill the shoes of John Lee Hooker, who passed into the spirit in 2001, together with Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Charley Patton–not to mention the forlorn denizen genius of the bedeviled global crossroads blues himself, Robert Johnson. Ignore Taylor’s searing message at your own and society’s peril.“-Michael Stone Pop Matters…..~

You may remember the fresh-faced blonde-locked duo that brought us the smash hit "Mmmm-bop” a few years back. Well, let’s place Mr. Taylor at the other end of the musical spectrum. From the album cover he seems to gaze down at us from hooded eyes, wearing an expression of both intensity and weariness, age and wisdom. 
Play the disk and it immediately becomes apparent that Taylor draws upon his intensity and wisdom to meld eloquent songs of pain and beauty, suffering and hope, despair and triumph. A master of acoustic string instruments (guitar, mandolin, banjo), Taylor’s blues fit squarely within the tradition of the genre, but the power of his feeling and deftness of composition give the music a freshness and immediacy that is surprising at a time when it is easy to feel that the limits of creativity have been exhausted. 
Perhaps the best example of his work from the cd is the first cut, “My Soul’s in Louisiana,” a paean for a hobo who was shot by police in retribution for a murder he did not commit. Every chord is heartfelt, each lyric chilling. As you fall into the pulse of the rhythm guitar and the clatter of the train (sampled in), you’ll join Taylor on a fascinating journey both musical and spiritual…..by….James T. Heeney…~

Credits 
Backing Vocals – Cassie Taylor 
Engineer – Mark Derryberry 
Guitar – Eddie Turner 
Keyboards, Bass – Kenny Passarelli 
Producer – Kenny Passarelli 
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Harmonica – Otis Taylor

Tracklist 
1 My Soul’s In Louisiana 3:35 
2 Resurrection Blues 5:59 
3 Momma Don’t You Do It 2:24 
4 3 Days And 3 Nights 4:20 
5 Round And Round 1:48 
6 Stick On You 3:31 
7 Rain So Hard 3:52 
8 Lost My Horse 3:08 
9 Saint Martha Blues 4:19 
10 Ain’t No Cowgirl 2:14 
11 Hungry People 5:06 

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