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Otis Taylor
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Otis Taylor grew up in Denver, but as 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 a 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.
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