Biography

Guitarist/songwriter Otis Taylor may be one of the few touring blues artists who has an equally successful career as an antiques broker. Raised in Colorado, by his mid-20s he had been a member of several blues-rock groups, including T&O Shortline and his own Otis Taylor Blues Band, and played throughout America and Europe. When a number of projected recordings contracts fell through in the mid-'70s, Taylor opted to start a career in antiques, and retired from music for nearly 20 years. He was persuaded to perform again by Kenny Passarelli in '95, and released his debut solo album, BLUE EYED MONSTER, the following year. In more recent years he has integrated other roots influences into his music, and has resurrected a childhood interest in the banjo.

Top Tracks

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• 505 Train

• Ain't No Cowgirl

• Babies Don't Lie

• Black's Mandolin Boogie

• Blind Piano Teacher

• Bowlegged Charlie

• Boy Plays Mandolin

• Buy Myself Some Freedom

• Comb Your Brown Hair

• Contraband Blues

• Cuckoo

• Deep Blue Sea

• Feel Like Lightning

• Few Feet Away

• Hands On Your Stomach

• Hey Joe

• House Of The Crosses

• I'm Not Mysterious

• Lee And Arnez

• Looking For Some Heat

• Majaraja Daughter

• Mama's Selling Heroin

• Maybe Yeah

• Momma Don't You Do It

• My Soul's In Louisiana

• Never Been To Africa

• Please Come Home Before It Rains

• Prophet's Mission

• Rain So Hard

• Ran So Hard The Sun Went Down

• Saint Martha Blues

• Seven Hours Of Light

• The Devil's Gonna Lie

• The Way It Goes

• Think I Won't

• Three Stripes On A Cadillac

• Tight Wire Blues

• Walk On Water

• Working For The Pullman Company

Discography

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• Otis Taylor's Contraband

  Telarc / Universal Distribution

  2012

• Clovis People, Vol. 3

  Telarc Blues / Telarc Distribution

  2010

• Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs

  Telarc Distribution

  2009

• Recapturing the Banjo

  Telarc Distribution

  2008

• Definition of a Circle

  Telarc Distribution

  2007

• Below the Fold

  Telarc Distribution

  2005

• Double V

  Telarc Distribution

  2004

• Truth Is Not Fiction

  Telarc Distribution

  2003

• Respect the Dead

  Northern Heights, Inc. / NorthernBlues Music

  2002

• White African

  NorthernBlues Music

  2001

• When Negroes Walked the Earth

  Shoelace Music

  2000