Genre: Blues
Label: Candid
Size: 12"
Format: 33RPM,

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Otis Spann Walking the Blues 180g LP

Otis Spann

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SKU:
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Posthumously Released Otis Spann Album on 180g Vinyl LP!
All Analog Remaster by Bernie Grundman!

Perhaps best known for his long association with the legendary Muddy Waters, Otis Spann is largely recognized as one of the greatest blues pianists of all time, if not the greatest.

Although Spann made a name for himself in Chicago by the mid-1940s, it wasn't until 1960 that he got the opportunity to record an album of his own. The sessions Spann did with Candid Records co-founder Nat Hentoff that year resulted in the legendary album Otis Spann Is the Blues. (Incidentally, this was also the first album ever recorded for the fledgling New York City-based label.)

The tracks on Walking the Blues were recorded during those same sessions in August of 1960 in New York City. Left on the cutting room floor, they would not be officially released until 1972, two years after Spann's untimely death.

Robert Lockwood, Jr., also from Muddy Water's group, accompanies Spann on guitar here as he does on the Is the Blues album. But Walking the Blues also features Spann's close friend, veteran singer and composer James Oden, better known to blues fans as St. Louis Jimmy.

Stripped down to just the these musicians, this magnificently performed and produced set showcases Spann's voice as well as piano. Spann stretches out with his pulsing two-handed rhythmic attack, and brings the barrelhouse piano style of his youth in line with the modern Chicago style he embodied.

...arguably the finest record Otis Spann ever cut...some of the finest blues piano you'll ever hear.
-Thom Owens, AllMusic.com, 5/5 stars (Album Pick)

Features

  • 180g Vinyl LP
  • All Analog Remaster by Bernie Grundman
  • Made in USA

Selections

Side A:

  1. It Must Have Been the Devil
  2. Otis' Blues
  3. Going Down Slow
  4. Half Ain't Been Told
  5. Monkey Face Woman
  6. This Is the Blues

Side B:

  1. Evil Ways
  2. Come Day, Go Day
  3. Walking the Blues
  4. Bad Condition
  5. My Home Is on the Delta

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