{"id":12507,"date":"2017-04-05T05:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T09:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12507"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:34:07","slug":"album-mini-review-otis-taylor-fantasizing-about-being-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/album-mini-review-otis-taylor-fantasizing-about-being-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Otis Taylor — Fantasizing About Being Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

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File next to Ali Farka Tour\u00e9, Robert Johnson, Miles Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Otis Taylor<\/strong> is one of the foremost modern-day practitioners of the blues. He doesn’t make bar-band electric blues; instead, his largely acoustic approach to the form is built upon the Delta traditions of old, delivered with a decidedly contemporary mindset. Honored recipient of a dozen Blues Music Awards, Taylor has tackled the subject of racism head-on in Fantasizing About Being Black<\/i>, his 15th<\/sup> album. Strictly speaking, Taylor’s choice of spare instrumentation and arrangements is repetitive; in practice it’s better described as trance-focused. That musical backdrop \u2013 with hauntingly effective use of cornet providing running counter-melody \u2013 helps keep the focus on the songwriter’s impassioned, thoughtful ruminations. Songs like \u201cJump Jelly Belly\u201d often confine themselves to a single chord. And when Taylor does go electric \u2013 as on \u201cHands On Your Stomach\u201d the trance vibe remains present, albeit in amped-up fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File next to Ali Farka Tour\u00e9, Robert Johnson, Miles Davis Otis Taylor is one of the foremost modern-day practitioners of the blues. He doesn’t make bar-band electric blues; instead, his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,49,65],"tags":[1635],"class_list":["post-12507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-new-release","category-review","tag-otis-taylor","cat-9-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12535,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12507\/revisions\/12535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}