Blues File: Otis Taylor "Pentatonic Wars & Love Songs"
Series: Blues File
From: WXPN
Length: 00:03:30
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Piece Description
If there is such a thing as avant garde blues, it's mostly thanks to Otis Taylor. In Taylor's surrealistic songs, images surface from unseen regions wrapped in melodies and arrangements that evolve slowly through repetition much in the manner of the works of minimalist composers. Taylor's new album "Pentatonic Wars & Love Songs" offers more haunting stories and images, and some Taylor trademarks ... a cornet at oblique harmonic angles to the melody, a piano embellishing a single chord, above poly-rhythmic drumming, behind lyrics whose very repetition makes them unsettling. Cornet player Ron Miles, pianist Jason Moran, and Taylor's daughter Cassie Taylor, who sings ethereally and plays bass, add combine with others to create Taylor's unique "trance blues" sound and enhance the effect of his haunting lyrics.
Broadcast History
WXPN-FM 6-18-2009
Transcript
Otis Taylor "Talking About It Blues"
Telarc: Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs
© 2009 Telarc International, division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
CD-83690
Otis Taylor "I'm Not Mysterious"
Telarc: Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs
© 2009 Telarc International, division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
CD-83690
Otis Taylor "Lost My Guitar"
Telarc: Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs
© 2009 Telarc International, division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
CD-83690
Otis Taylor "Maybe Yeah"
Telarc: Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs
© 2009 Telarc International, division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
CD-83690
Otis Taylor "Country Boy, Girl"
Telarc: Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs
© 2009 Telarc International, division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
CD-83690
Otis Taylor "Dagger By My Side"
Telarc: Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs
© 2009 Telarc International, division of C...
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Timing and Cues
3:30 self-contained. Opens with opening theme and host intro. Ends with music fade following host outro.
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