No Shuggie Otis thread that I could find. I'm listening to "Inspiration Information" right now over and over. What else should I track down. Everything?
― strgn, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 07:41 (sixteen years ago) link
he's kind of hit or miss but when he hits its on i like 'not available,' cool slow to fast tempo switch
― deej, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 08:12 (sixteen years ago) link
you already posted to this thread like an hour before you started this one? Shuggie Otis
― jaxon, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 08:28 (sixteen years ago) link
loOl
― strgn, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link
the nb thing was stupid, sorry
― strgn, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 08:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I enjoy ...Plays the Blues (the 1994 comp album), but it's the only Shuggie album i know. I'd suspect all his stuff is worth a look.
― christoff, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
get "freedom flight", i think about half of which is on the cd reissue of "inspirtation information"... it has "Strawberry letter", the soaring title track, and some bluesier numbers.
i bought a repress of "inspiration" on vinyl about a year ago and it sounds like absolute shit. beware of cheap soul/r&b vinyl reissues. the don blackman reissue i got sounds just as bad.
― winston, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Shuggie only had three albums under his own name in the first place. I'm not so hot on his straight blues stuff (as heard on his debut, HERE COMES SHUGGIE OTIS), but his "progressive soul" (for lack of a better term) on INSPIRATION INFORMATION is alright with me.
His second LP, FREEDOM FLIGHT, was like a halfway house between the two styles.
― Rev. Hoodoo, Sunday, 13 January 2008 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
more like Shitty Anus amirite
― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 05:31 (sixteen years ago) link
New material due out next year:
http://exclaim.ca/News/shuggie_otis_unearths_lost_album_in_expanded_reissue_of_inspiration_information_rolls_out_north_american_tour
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Thursday, 15 November 2012 10:05 (eleven years ago) link
huh, so that lost album is totally unheard? interesting. someone on some other thread was saying that shuggie live in the last few years was ... not great.
― tylerw, Thursday, 15 November 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
Whoa, nice!
― Soundslike, Thursday, 15 November 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
saw him on London on Tuesday evening, and against all odds he was completely wonderful.
― "Hahahaha, nice one, Punchy," I said. (stevie), Thursday, 22 November 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
New album Wings of Love (well new to us anyway - it was recorded from late '70s to early '00s) out 16 April - and is streaming now on NPR.
CD will inexplicably include a second disc with yet another reissue of Inspiration Information, an album 95% of ppl interested in the new one already have, this time with four previously unreleased outtakes added but not the four tracks from Freedom Flight.
Will be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon this friday nite.
Also on tour over the next month. Stoked!
― Lee626, Thursday, 11 April 2013 08:49 (eleven years ago) link
"New" album is awesome.
― Austin, Thursday, 25 April 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
Been loving Me And My Woman http://www.montreuxjazzlive.com/shuggie-otis-me-and-my-women-video
― Spottie, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Nice!
― brimstead, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
Funny this thread should pop up (and maybe not the best thread for this) but I was just trying to track down these 70s recordings Johnny Otis and Shuggie did with Louis Jordan. They're like the 3rd or 4th time Jordan rerecorded his hits, so the performances are certainly not definitive, but they're interesting. (There are other volumes with Charles Brown and Joe Liggins.) They're on Johnny's own label, available as mp3s on Amazon, but I have never seen a physical copy.
http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/v4/4e/a5/5d/4ea55df3-e328-fffb-6fbf-f87a7167d802/cover326x326.jpeg
― wild-eyed, high-volume bursts of pious indignation (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
playing tomorrow in mill valley, ca
http://www.sfchronicle.com/music/article/Shuggie-Otis-ready-for-third-shot-at-fame-6464968.php?t=1a348bdcbb
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 August 2015 23:11 (eight years ago) link
He was on the US east coast recently too, but I missed him
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:34 (eight years ago) link