recently we lucked into copies of a few albums by former muddy waters pianist otis spann and felt like sharing. sometimes, you know, the moment just demands a little blues piano - especially if it's laid down beneath lines like: "she's got a face like a monkey, hair just like a teddy bear" or "she's got pretty smooth skin, just like an elephant hide." not sure it gets much better...otis spann -...
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I think this is Otis in his prime, 1963. What a wonderful example ofthe genre.
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If I had to pick one blues artist as a favorite, I'd go with Otis Spann. Based on his charisma more than his body of work. He was over shadowed by Muddy Waters, but complimented him very well.Mark, this is slow blues;
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Muddy's man on piano, pretty much say's it all. A soft spoken man that followed Big Maceo in the Chicago Style. This was recorded in 1960 before Muddy Waters moved to the suburbs a few blocks from me.This photograph is of the rehearsal studio in the basement of Muddy Waters first house on the southside of Chicago. Otis was a painfully shy man with great talent and my favorite band member. Otis...
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Both of the great Chicago pianist's albums for ABC-BluesWay, characterized with rippling piano and ruminative vocals. Backed in style by his mates in the Muddy Waters band (including the man himself), Spann responds to a studio full of people on "Popcorn Man," "Steel Mill Blues," and "Nobody Knows Chicago like I Do." Spann's 1967 encore LP united him in the studio with wife Lucille for several ...
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| 1 Country Girl [#] |
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| 2 Get on Down to the Nitty Gritty [#] |
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| 3 Long Distance Call [#] |
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| 4 I Got My Mojo Working [#] |
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| 5 Chains of Love [#] |
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