Respect the Dead
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| Respect the Dead | ||||
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| Released | 2002 | |||
| Studio | Stepbridge | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Label | NorthernBlues | |||
| Producer | Kenny Passarelli | |||
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Respect the Dead is an album by the American musician Otis Taylor, released in 2002.[1][2] Taylor supported the album with North American tour.[3] Respect the Dead was nominated for a W. C. Handy Award for best contemporary blues album.[4]
Recorded at Stepbridge Studios, in Santa Fe, the album was produced by Kenny Passarelli, who also played bass.[5][6] Eddie Turner played lead guitar.[7] Taylor's daughter, Cassie, contributed backing vocals to many of the songs.[8] All of the songs were written by Taylor.[9] Taylor was chiefly influenced by John Lee Hooker.[10] "32nd Time" traces the history of the civil rights movement in the latter half of the 20th century.[11] "Ten Million Slaves" is about the slave trade, told from the perspective of someone trapped in a fallout shelter.[12] "Three Stripes on a Cadillac" was inspired by a story of a drag race in Mexico that ended in death.[13]
