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Degenen die Otis nog niet kenden konden met hem kennismaken op High Endition 13 met het prachtige Lost My Guitar. 
Dat nummer is van deze CD, een cd met love-songs .... maar dan op de Otis Taylor manier, dus vaak zonder happy end. 
Prachtig ingetogen artistiek album, heel mooi geproduceerd en met een keur van klasse artiesten (oa Gary Moore en zijn dochter Cassie)

Otis Taylor - Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs
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01-Looking for Some Heat
02-Sunday Morning
03-Silver Dollar on My Head
04-Lost My Guitar
05-I"m Not Mysterious
06-Young Girl Down the Street
07-Country Boy, Girl
08-Talking About It Blues
09-Walk on Water
10-Mama"s Best Friend
11-Maybe Yeah
12-Dagger by My Side
13-If You Hope

OTIS TAYLOR EXAMINES THE DARKER DIMENSIONS OF LOVE

New album Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs due at retail on June 23, 2009

otis-taylor-cd-coverNo one ever accused blues singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Otis Taylor of overindulging in the happier aspects of the human condition. His songs are often peopled with characters whose emotional landscape — no matter how raw or dark — is laid bare for all to experience, and the story is often less than pretty.

But if love — in any or all of its joyous and painful variations — is somewhere amid that confusing emotional swirl, he’ll go there too. The result will by no means be syrupy ballads obsessing over romantic love. Instead, Taylor’s love songs take a hard, realistic look at the relative benefits and costs of what is perhaps the most unnerving of forces within the human heart.

Taylor’s new recording, Pentatonic Wars and Love Songs, throws a light on the complexities of love in all of its forms. The album is set for June 23, 2009, release on Telarc International, a division of Concord Music Group. In addition to Taylor’s trademark haunting vocals and simple but stirring guitar riffs — a combination often referred to as trance blues — the album also features guest appearances by Irish blues-rock guitarist Gary Moore (previously heard on Taylor’s Definition of a Circle in 2007) and jazz/hip-hop pianist Jason Moran.

Within these songs of love are tales of tragedy and loss, misunderstanding and deception — but there’s often a glimmer of hope as well. “That’s just my nature,” says Taylor. “I may write love songs, but they aren’t always going to be happy and pretty. Look at songs like ‘Teen Angel’ or ‘Ode To Billy Joe.’ Those are love songs, but they aren’t exactly happy. So why shouldn’t my songs be considered love songs?”

The set opens with the pensive “Looking for Some Heat,” the story of a man looking for some love and sunshine. Moran and cornetist Ron Miles provide enough subtle riffs to serve as counterpoint to Taylor’s more edgy vocals. “I met Jason in Germany once, but I didn’t really pay that much attention to him at first,” says Taylor. “Then I saw him in concert in West Virginia, and I was really amazed. I wanted to get him on one of my records.”

The melancholy “Sunday Morning” features lead vocals by Cassie Taylor (Otis’ 21-year-old daughter), backed by Gary Moore’s understated but potent flamenco guitar lines. The power of the song lies in the simplicity of the lyrics, as they draw attention to the images and rituals of what is often the most introspective day of the week.

“Lost My Guitar” was inspired by the tragic true story of Emma K. Walsh, whose preschool-age daughter was killed in a car accident in Boulder, Colorado, in 1974. The singer in the song laments the loss of his guitar, but “the guitar is a metaphor for the child,” says Taylor.

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