White African (album)
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| White African | ||||
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| Released | 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 2000 | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Label | NorthernBlues[1] | |||
| Producer | Kenny Passarelli | |||
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White African is an album by the American musician Otis Taylor, released in 2001.[2][3] The album won Taylor a W. C. Handy Award for best new blues artist.[4]
Recorded in 2000, the album was produced by Kenny Passarelli, who also played bass.[5][6] Taylor's daughter Cassie sang on the album.[7] The album booklet contains mugshots of Black men arrested for vagrancy in Kansas in the early part of the 20th century.[8] Taylor played a 1949 Gibson L-50 guitar.[9]
"Saint Martha Blues" references the lynching of Taylor's great-grandfather.[10] "Lost My Horse" is about alcoholism.[11] "3 Days and 3 Nights" deals with the consequences of a lack of affordable medical care.[12]
