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Respect the Dead album by Otis Taylor was released Apr 02, 2002 on the NorthernBlues Music label. Otis Taylor might well be the best and most inspired of contemporary bluesmen. Respect the Dead songs His White African album was a masterpiece -- which makes the task of following it doubly difficult. With Respect the Dead, however, he does a superb job -- the man is still very much on a roll. Kicking off with the stark, banjo-led "Ten Million Slaves," the intensity level never dips. It doesn't matter whether he's basing a song around a single chord, as he does on "Hands on Your Stomach," or simply using voice and harmonica on "Baby So," there's a remarkable urgency about his singing and lyrics, never more so than with "Black Witch," a tale of the American South that goes right back to Africa -- but the album returns and takes its tone to Mexico and racing for "Three Stripes on a Cadillac." The support, from Kenny Passarelli, Cassie Taylor, and atmospheric lead guitarist Eddie Turner, always serves to push the tension of the songs even higher.

1 Ten Million Slaves 
2 Hands on Your Stomach 
3 Changing Rules 
4 32nd Time 
5 Baby So 
6 Shaker Woman  
7 Black Witch 
8 Seven Hours of Light 
9 I Like You, But I Don't Love You   
10 Jump Jelly Belly   
11 Three Stripes On a Cadillac  
12 Just Live Your Life

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