By Olivia Doak, Boulder Daily Camera / Denver Post | Materials from Otis Taylor’s decades-long career as an internationally recognized Boulder-based blues banjo artist are now part of an archived collection at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Taylor, who’s lived in Boulder since 1967, has released 15 albums and been at the forefront of Black banjo music. Taylor won many awards throughout his career for his music, which was often about race, injustice and the hardships Black people face. Taylor was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame in 2019.
“He’s a very wonderful addition on many levels. First of all, Otis is a great artist that is well renowned but whose work has not received enough recognition,” Austin Okigbo, interim director of the American Music Research Center at CU Boulder said.
“I think housing his work at the AMRC is the best way to give him the visibility, the recognition and the honor that he deserves, as somebody who has made major contributions to American music and culture.”
Materials from Taylor’s career are now part of CU Boulder’s American Music Research Center archival collections housed in the University Libraries’ Rare and Distinctive Collections. The American Music Research Center supports the research, performance and preservation of all music of the Americas with a particular emphasis on music diversity from the United States. The center holds a rare collection of scores, papers, recordings and other material artifacts that document the history of American music that now includes Taylor’s collection.
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Materials from Boulder Blues Icon Otis Taylor Now Housed at CU Boulder
