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a r t i s t : Shuggie Otis & Others
t i t l e : In Session Information
d a t e : 2002
l a b e l : RPM
g e n r e : Soul
r l s. d a t e : Feb-2003
t r a c k s : 15
b i t r a t e : 192kbps
s i z e : 63,4 MB
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The reissue of the 1975 Shuggie Otis album Inspiration
Information last year caused a storm, one of the great albums
and careers that time forgot. A soul album tinged with jazz and
off kilter funk, its DIY approach and lo-fi electronics
predicted much of what would follow at the end of the 20th
Century. The album was recorded at sessions during the period
1972-1974. Before, during and after this period Shuggie Otis
continued his work as a session musician partly for his father
's (Johnny Otis) ongoing productions at his own Hawk Sound
Studios, where much of Inspiration Information was recorded.
What RPM presents you with is the best of the sessions Otis jnr
recorded around the same period in the same studio with many of
the same sidemen. The specific project Johnny Otis had embarked
upon was to record some of the pioneers of R&B in a modern
context for release on the Blues Spectrum label series. Shuggie
was used as session guitarist, pianist, arranger, writer The
music on our compilation is a mixture of blues, r&b, funk,
soul, all recorded in the same DIY lo-fi way at Hawk Sound
studios, across 1973-1977 with many of the same sidemen such as
brass players Jack Kelso, Doug Wintz and Curt Sletten. It
represents a perfect back drop to the famous Inspiration album.
The RPM release comes in a digipack with an essay on Shuggie
written by Clive Richardson, who wrote the notes on the
original Blues Spectrum albums when released in the UK in the
early 1970's.
--rpmrecords.co.uk
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01-Shuggie Otis & Richard Berry - Doin' It [03:15]
02-Shuggie Otis & Johnny Otis - Country Girls [02:35]
03-Shuggie Otis & Johnny Otis - The Signifying Monkey [03:04]
04-Shuggie Otis & Roy Milton - I've got a Big Fat Mama [02:58]
05-Shuggie Otis & Addie Vinson - Sugar [03:07]
06-Shuggie Otis & Richard Berry - Trackin' Machine [02:41]
07-Shuggie Otis & Richard Berry - I Wanna Make You Happy [03:12]
08-Shuggie Otis & Charles Brown - Black Night [03:06]
09-Shuggie Otis & Richard Berry - Louie Louie [02:16]
10-Shuggie Otis & Johnny Otis - Willie and the Hand Jive [02:44]
11-Shuggie Otis & Charles Brown - Big Legged Woman [02:52]
12-Shuggie Otis & Charles Brown - Trouble [02:40]
13-Shuggie Otis & Richard Berry - Ooh Baby I Love You [03:48]
14-Shuggie Otis & Richard Berry - Round About Midnight [04:02]
15-Shuggie Otis & Joe Liggins - Boom-Chhick-A-Boogie [03:44]
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46:04 min
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