In 1966, a couple months before he was set to graduate, Otis Taylor was told he needed to cut his short afro or he'd be kicked out. Now, 57 years after he left, he has received a diploma. It's ...

It took almost 60 years, but Otis Taylor was finally able to take the stage. Who is he? The 74-year-old acclaimed blues musician and multi-instrumentalist has had made a career of crooning, strumming ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When he was 17 years old and in his senior year at a Denver high school, Otis Taylor was told to "cut your hair or leave." So, ...

Electric banjo? Check. Cello? Check. Synthesizer? Check. A couple of electric guitars and an electric bass? Check. OK, Otis Taylor is ready to play some blues. No, it's not the typical instrumentation ...

In this two-part special of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka sits down with renowned blues musician Otis Taylor for an intimate and dynamic conversation.

Colorado bluesman Otis Taylor, a Chicago native, remembers being at the Rolling Stones’ legendary Hyde Park concert in London back in 1969, but it wasn’t the music he found particularly interesting.

In 1966 two months before his graduation from Manual High School, blues legend Otis Taylor told school administrators he would not comply with school policy mandating short hair for male students, so ...

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, ...

In 1966, a couple months before he was set to graduate, Otis Taylor was told he needed to cut his short afro or he'd be kicked out. Now, 57 years... Blues musician Otis Taylor graduates high school 57 ...

In Part 2 of our conversation with legendary blues musician Otis Taylor, we dive deeper into his artistic journey, his distinctive trance blues style, and the historical and cultural significance of ...

It's graduation season, and among those donning the cap and gown is Otis Taylor. He just received his diploma from Manual High School in Denver 57 years after the school expelled him. MARY LOUISE ...