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Otis Taylor Stuck His Neck Out On New Album


05/29/2015
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(The Blues) Otis Taylor says he's risen to a new level of risk-taking with 14th album Hey Joe Opus / Red Meat. It's a study of Hey Joe, made famous by Jimi Hendrix, which has been a staple of Taylor performances for years - but it becomes the focus of a range of variations in his trademark trance blues style.

The new album launch follows a career that saw him quitting music in 1977, returning nearly 20 years later then reinventing his approach to banjo playing in 2008.

Taylor tells the Examiner: "You're sticking your neck out - and this one's a little different. People decide what they want to think about it, whatever you do. I don't tell them what to think, but it is an album. That's why I called it an opus. It's an album of different misdirections" Read more here.

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