Artist	Song
Otis Taylor	Ten Million Slaves
from Recapturing the Banjo (2008)
Otis Taylor	Nasty Letter
from Truth Is Not Fiction (2003)
Otis Taylor	Ran So Hard the Sun Went Down
from Recapturing the Banjo (2008)
Otis Taylor	Few Feet Away
from Definition of a Circle (2007)
Otis Taylor	Love and Hesitation
from Definition of a Circle (2007)
Otis Taylor	Hey Joe
from Recapturing the Banjo (2008)
Otis Taylor	Babies Don't Lie
from Truth Is Not Fiction (2003)
Otis Taylor	Little Betty
from Definition of a Circle (2007)
Otis Taylor	My Soul's In Louisiana
from White African (2001)
Otis Taylor	Live Your Life
from Recapturing the Banjo (2008)
Otis Taylor	Black's Mandolin Boogie
from Definition of a Circle (2007)
Otis Taylor	Prophets' Mission
from Recapturing the Banjo (2008)
Otis Taylor	They Wore Blue
from Definition of a Circle (2007)
Otis Taylor	Five Hundred Roses
from Recapturing the Banjo (2008)
Otis Taylor & Cassie Taylor	Buy Myself Some Freedom
from Double V (2004)
Otis Taylor	Bow-Legged Charlie
from Recapturing the Banjo (2008)
Otis Taylor	Momma Don't You Do It
from White African (2001)
Otis Taylor	Three Stripes On a Cadillac
from Respect the Dead (2002)
Otis Taylor	Saint Martha Blues
from White African (2001)
Otis Taylor & Cassie Taylor	505 Train
from Double V (2004)
Otis Taylor	Lifetime of Freedom
from Definition of a Circle (2007)
Otis Taylor	House of the Crosses
from Truth Is Not Fiction (2003)
Otis Taylor	Deep Blue Sea
from Recapturing the Banjo (2008)
Otis Taylor	Hands On Your Stomach
from Respect the Dead (2002)
Otis Taylor & Cassie Taylor	Please Come Home Before It Rains
from Double V (2004)
Otis Taylor	Looking for Some Heat
from Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs (2009)
Otis Taylor	Seven Hours of Light
from Respect the Dead (2002)
Otis Taylor & Cassie Taylor	Mandan Woman
from Double V (2004)
Otis Taylor	Comb Your Brown Hair
from Truth Is Not Fiction (2003)
Otis Taylor	Mexican Cowboy
from Definition of a Circle (2007)
Otis Taylor	Rain So Hard
from White African (2001)
Otis Taylor	Just Live Your Life
from Respect the Dead (2002)
Otis Taylor	Rosa, Rosa
from Truth Is Not Fiction (2003)
Otis Taylor	I'm Not Mysterious
from Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs (2009)
Otis Taylor	Black Witch
from Respect the Dead (2002)
Otis Taylor & Cassie Taylor	Mama's Selling Heroin
from Double V (2004)
Otis Taylor	Looking Over Your Fence
from Definition of a Circle (2007)
Otis Taylor	Maharaja Daughter
from Definition of a Circle (2007)
Otis Taylor	Maybe Yeah
from Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs (2009)
Otis Taylor	Walk On Water
from Truth Is Not Fiction (2003)
Otis Taylor	Resurrection Blues
from White African (2001)
Otis Taylor	Baby, Please Don't Go
from Truth Is Not Fiction (2003)
Otis Taylor	Lost My Guitar
from Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs (2009)
Otis Taylor	Round and Round
from White African (2001)
Otis Taylor	Dagger By My Side
from Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs (2009)

Comment:

The blues isn't something that's meant to be frozen in time and made into a museum piece. As long as Otis Taylor is banging it out on his banjo, guitar, mandolin, and whatever else he can lay his hands on, you can rest assured the music that migrated from Africa to the Mississippi Delta and beyond will keep [i]on[/i] moving. Taylor's got a style so all his own there's even a guitar named after him, and now you can experience the full range of his raw, sometimes radical reinvention of the blues basics. From his jazzy excursions on [i]Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs[/i] to his roots reclamation project, [i]Recapturing the Banjo[/i], we dove deep into a decade-and-a-half of Taylor's triumphs to pick out the peak moments and put 'em all right here at your fingertips.

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