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01. 0:00.00 Bowlegged Charlie
02. 2:38.09 Country Boy, Girl
03. 5:18.39 500 Roses
04. 11:04.35 Cuckoo
05. 13:48.23 12 String Mile
06. 17:46.40 They Don’t Want Me
07. 20:07.55 Cold at Midnight
08. 25:45.53 Tight Wire Blues
09. 28:12.23 Naggin’ Woman Blues
10. 30:40.24 9th Cavalry Blues
11. 34:23.60 Tight Wire Blues
12. 36:41.08 Pretty Polly, traditional
Otis Taylor grew up in Denver, CO, but like the old blues song said, he was born in Chicago in 1948. According to Taylor, his parents were both jazz fans. “My dad worked for the railroad and knew a lot of jazz people. He was a socialist and real bebopper.” His mother loved everything from Etta James to Pat Boone. The first instrument Taylor learned to play was the banjo, but he soon rejected the banjo for its association with the racist American South. Taylor would eventually return to the banjo upon discovering its African roots.
Like so many musicians in Denver, Taylor drew inspiration from time spent at the Denver Folklore Center founded by Harry Tuft, where he first heard Piedmont, Delta, country, and Chicago blues artists like Son House, Muddy Waters and Mississippi Fred McDowell. He learned to play guitar and harmonica and while still in his teens he formed a band called the Butterscotch Fire Department and later the Otis Taylor Blues Band. A brief sojourn to London in the late 1960s earned Taylor a contract with Blue Horizon Records. Disappointed that they didn’t share the same vision, they parted ways and Taylor returned to Boulder where he played with various artists including Tommy Bolin, Zephyr, and the 4-Nikators.
As the music and business changed, Taylor turned away from public performances in 1977 and developed a thriving career as an expert in high-end antiques. During the twenty years he was out of the mainstream music business he also helped organize, coach, and fund one of the first African American bicycle racing teams that eventually ranked fourth in the United States. In 1995 at the urging of Kenny Passarelli (inducted into the Hall in 2017 and renowned bass player for Elton John and Joe Walsh’s Barnstorm) Taylor kicked off his return to performing at the opening of Buchanan’s coffeehouse on University Hill in Boulder, joined by Passarelli and former Zephyr guitarist Eddie Turner. Audience response was so strong that it served as a catalyst for Taylor’s return to recording and touring with his vision of pushing the blues genre forward with fresh and original songwriting. In 1996 he released his first solo album, Blue-Eyed Monster produced by Kenny Passarelli. According to Taylor, “I developed a way of saying something that seemed to be more intense.
In 1997, Passarelli produced Taylor’s second record, When Negroes Walked the Earth. Taylor earned his first big break with a review in Playboy magazine by the rock critic Dave Marsh who described it as “minimalist blues in the John Lee Hooker mode.” His vocal, guitar, and songwriting talents were also recognized in 2000 with a coveted fellowship to the Sundance Composers Lab in Park City, UT. Upon learning he was selected, Taylor remarked, “I feel like I just won the Miss America pageant.” The fellowship would eventually help Taylor land music sourcing contracts for a number of major Hollywood films and television shows.
A resident of Boulder, CO, since 1967, Taylor gives back to his community with the annual Trance Blues Festival in Boulder, where he invites a diverse cast of musicians as guest artists for an all-ages workshop and concert. And he and his wife Carol created a blues-in-the-schools program called “Writing the Blues” which Taylor has delivered in schools and universities around the world. The program acknowledges the history of the blues but also encourages original songwriting. According to Taylor, “I start by talking about how everybody gets the blues and it’s been amazing to see the powerful stories the students are willing to share.” And according to Carol, “It allows Otis to do his part in ensuring that the blues, with new and original voices, will continue to move forward in the next generation.”
Otis Taylor is one of the few musicians in the world who brings such depth and honesty to the topics of his songs and the passion of his voice and playing. The Colorado Music Hall of Fame presented by Comfort Dental is proud to induct Otis Taylor as part of the Class of 2019.
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