Track Listing

1. Feel Like Lightning
2. Boy Plays Mandolin
3. Hookers In The Street
4. Mama's Got A Friend
5. Working For The Pullman Company
6. Your Children Sleep Good Tonight
7. Didn't Know Much About Education
8. Went To Hermes
9. Government Lied
10. Right Side Of Heaven

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105710 in Music
• Released on: 2005-06-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
Otis Taylor has proved with his first two Telarc releases (Truth Is Not Fiction in 2003 and Double V in 2004) that he is one of the most innovative voices in contemporary blues. His mix of socially conscious themes and lyrics, haunting vocals and rhythmic drive are back in full force on this new recording that features stirring backup vocals by daughter (and bassist) Cassie Taylor, along with sparse but powerful string, horn and percussion accents.

Personnel:
Otis Taylor - (vocals, Ome banjo, slide guitar, mandolin, harmonica) with Cassie Taylor - (bass, vocals), Ben Sollee - (cello), Rayna Gellert - (fiddle), Greg Anton - (drums), Ron Miles - (trumpet), Brian Juan - (organ), Futoshi Morioka - (lead guitar)

Customer Reviews

Mesmerising
WC Handy award winner Otis Taylor has produced an astonishing album. Playing trance blues (a genre originally from the North Mississippi hill country) he takes a chord and repeats it and plays around with it until you are hypnotised. But there is much, much more to the man and his music than that. He plays a variety of instruments superbly: guitar, mandolin, ome banjo and lap steel guitar. He writes his own songs and is unafraid to tackle serious social and civil rights issues. This album covers among other subjects the Ludlow massacre in Colorado in 1914 where Rockefeller company goons started a fire that killed 20 men women and children, and the US Government's appalling treatment of black servicemen during the war, falsely described as missing in action.

However, it is not all doom and gloom. There are also delightful songs about love and family. He is currently (November 2005) doing his first UK tour and last Saturday's gig in London was the best I have been to in years, possibly ever. Be warned - if you buy this album, you'll have to buy all six of his albums. I have introduced eight people to his music in the past few weeks and they have all become hooked. Otis Taylor will change your view of the blues and may even change your view of life!