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Recapturing The Banjo (CD)

By: Otis Taylor (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Recapturing The Banjo (CD) Album By Otis Taylor (Artist)
1   Ran So Hard the Sun Went Down
2   Prophet's Mission
3   Abisnthe
4   Live Your Life
5   Walk Right In
6   Bow-Legged Charlie
7   Hey Joe
8   Little Liza Jane
9   Five Hundred Roses
10   Les Ognons
11   Deep Blue Sea
12   Simple Mind
13   Ten Million Slaves
14   Way It Goes, The
 

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Uncut (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] fine celebration of the instruments roots in Africa and its assimilation into the fabric of American music."
Down Beat (p.92) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "There may not be a better roots album released this year or decade than RECAPTURING THE BANJO."
Dirty Linen (p.p.36) - "Taylor and his colleagues have again served up a living history lesson -- musical, cultural, political -- that's bound to expand the thinking of a lot of listeners."
Dirty Linen (p.45) - "Otis Taylor and a host of notable contributors present a collection of largely blues-flavored, banjo-backed songs intended to entertain..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Multi-instrumental bluesman Taylor continues to enthrall with roots music allied to an exploration of America's past race problems and social injustices.
Harp (magazine) (p.94) - "'Hey Joe' of Hendrix/Byrds renown, is pierced by Taylor's nasty guitar licks, and his 'Absinthe' takes an ethereal turn via Hart's lap steel."

Title Note

Personnel: Otis Taylor; Corey Harris, Don Vappie, Guy Davis, Keb' Mo', Alvin Youngblood Hart.

Simultaneously roots-reverent and post-modern, RECAPTURING THE BANJO is credited to Otis Taylor, but is in fact a group effort that also involves contemporary bluesmen Keb' Mo', Guy Davis, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Corey Harris. They band together for an album that spotlights the role of banjo in early blues, as an instrument with African roots. Classic blues material is offset by Taylor's originals, buoyed by arrangements that alternate between period-perfect and electrified/modern.

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5 out of 5 stars Recapturing The Banjo, April 3, 2008
By Calvin
An unusual album featuring the Banjo. Somehow Taylor makes it work. The album aptly named "Recapturing the Banjo" does just that!

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