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- Summary: The theme of love and relationships runs through the latest release from blues singer Otis Taylor.
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- Record Label: Telarc
- Genre(s): Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues, Contemporary Blues, Acoustic Blues, Modern Blues, Electric Country Blues
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Mar 21, 2012In short, it's a modern blues record that even non-blues fans can love and that blues fans can outright cherish.
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Mar 21, 2012Contraband pushes Taylor's music forward, if by short, measured steps, and the qualities that make him the 21st century's classic bluesman keep his sound deep and true.
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Mar 21, 2012By reining in the freedom that made Clovis People, Vol. 3 such a puzzling wonder, Taylor manages to up the ante musically and lyrically on Contraband.
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MojoMar 21, 2012An album of considerable weight. [Feb 2012, p.99]
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Mar 21, 2012Aside from Taylor's earlier albums, Contraband would stand as a unique work, but it's not up to the standards set by reasonably similar records.
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