Otis Taylor Recapturing the Banjo

[Dwrey57]

Thank you to You Tube for bringing great music and musicians like Otis Taylor. Hope to hear you live soon.

[TrashcanBoogie]

if you like this, check out "bela fleck in africa" the documentary"throw down your heart". bela takes the bajo back to africa(where it came from) tours 5 countries, playing with locals. some of these people give serious competition playing homemade instruments to a guy playing a custom made $5,000 banjo. check it out! love it!

[paulwhitberg]

Recapturing the Banjo is one of the greatest albums released in a LONG LONG TIME

[683Lizzie]

Alvin Youngblood Hart's Deep Blue Sea is such a damn good catchy song. I seriously cannot get enough of that one its so good

[RupertandTurtle]

Where can I buy a cheap banjo for a starter?

[duececaboose]

@RupertandTurtle i have an instructional video up on how to play the style similar to those seen in the video. been playing for 16 years and i'm happy to share my knowledge with people interested. just drop me a line.

[renebq91702]

@RupertandTurtle

if you still looking for a banjo I got one for sale for less than a hundred

[ROCKYMARCIANOXX0]

First heared Otis Taylors Nasty Letter a while ago and i've been a fan since, awesome stuff!

[olied21]

thanks to the movie public enemies i now know Otis Taylor music, my taste is changing...good music.!!!!!

[Andreas0705]

@olied21 I agree - thats how i discovered him :)

[skott1090]

im taking guitar lessons right now and i asked my teacher if he could teach banjo and he said yes so i dono what kind to get 5 string 4 string blue grass or open back i like the stuff like otis taylor the cover of black betty and this song which u played hella good any advise is good advice

[TheBrowndawg]

dont matter just get one.

[lew329]

This video has me pumped for Otis's new album next week!

[audiotrax2000]

These guys are really cool and happening. I just heard about Otis Taylor from this month's Guitar Player magazine, and I am getting into his music now. They make folk music really fresh and interesting again - and that's good! First I found the Fleet Foxes, now this. Music is changing again, and so are my tastes. :)

[FireOFK]

cool music I like it.

[bluesborn]

this might be the right time for a resurgence of folk music.Time for another renaissance.

[andywright121]

Its already happening!

woo!

[bonecracker23]

I wish we could hear the entire song "deep blue sea" performed by Alvin Youngblood Hart, it sounds incredibly good...

[00kaza00]

RIGHT ON !!!

[frictionpeg]

This is great. Have you seen Banjopariah, another African American reclaiming the banjo. He's a natural.

Please come to Ireland.

[rustking]

I met Otis in Nashville. He is a great guy and this project is a wonderful and worthwhile endeavor. All the musicians involved are top notch and first rate. Nice little snapshot of what's happening.

[Yazidmanou]

Thanks for posting !

[Alane314]

Ok, I have to ask because Otis is from Kansas City, is he the same Otis Taylor that played for the Chiefs?

[outcast73]

He grew up in Denver, now lives in Boulder

[Junction2Music]

Guy Davis, Don Vappie, Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart and Otis Taylor will do a Recpaturing The Banjo tour in the UK in April 2008, tour dates are:

27/04 Gateshead -- The Sage2

28/04 London -- The Barbican

29/04 Brighton - The Komedia

30/04 Basingstoke -- The Anvil

01/05 Canterbury -- The Gulbenkian Theatre

Googgle name of the venue for more information. Can't wait!

[dalevancleef]

I have to get this. I hear that he's going to be at the Chicago Blues Fest this year. That's a short train ride for me!

[masterforrest27]

I have seen Otis Taylor live in KC- excellent performer plus very nice and sincere.

[sbnique]

That's a great clip! I think Don Vappie is from New Orleans. I've heard some of his music, he's great. Thanks for posting.

[enrobsob]

Very nice. Does anyone know the name of the song that ends this clip? It's by Keb Mo, with banjo and trumpet.

[MelGibson90210x]

It's actually an Otis Taylor song. Off his third or fourth CD. Last track. "Live your life" or something like that.

[fakyew]

Super effort to recover link of African American music to African roots. I once quit playing blues which was trampling on others music, but have since returned to the blues and banjo, empahsizing the amalgamation of cultures.

The heretofore unrealized poteitial of the banjo has plenty room to grow.

Bravo to Otis Taylor and his guys and future players who move this music forward

There are others such as Taj Mahal and the Chocolate Drops.

[peglegsam]

that's great, all geniuses together, looking forward to february 2008, like all other your cds, its sound quality must be amazing :)