Otis Spann - The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (2006)

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Artist: Otis Spann
Title: The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Columbia
Genre: Blues, Piano Blues, Delta Blues
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:10:32
Total Size: 303 mb | 763 mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD1

01 - Otis Spann - Can't Do Me No Good
02 - Otis Spann - Bloody Murder
03 - Otis Spann - Someday Soon Baby
04 - Otis Spann - Hungry Country Girl
05 - Otis Spann - My Love Depends On You (Take 1)
06 - Otis Spann - Walkin' (Takes 5 & 6)
07 - Otis Spann - It Was A Big Thing (Takes 1 & 2)
08 - Otis Spann - Temperature Is Rising (100.2°F) (Take 2)
09 - Otis Spann - Dig You (Take 4)
10 - Otis Spann - No More Doggin'
11 - Otis Spann - Ain't Nobody's Business (Take 1)
12 - Otis Spann - She Needs Some Loving (Take 2)
13 - Otis Spann - I Need Some Air (Take 3)
14 - Otis Spann - Someday Baby (Takes 7 & 8)

CD2

01 - Otis Spann - No More Doggin' (Take 1)
02 - Otis Spann - No More Doggin' (Takes 2 & 3)
03 - Otis Spann - I Need Some Air (Takes 1 & 2)
04 - Otis Spann - Walkin' (Takes 1 & 2)
05 - Otis Spann - Walkin' (Take 4)
06 - Otis Spann - Blues For Hippies (Take 1)
07 - Otis Spann - Temperature Is Rising (98.8°F) (Take 1)
08 - Otis Spann - Someday Baby (Takes 1, 2, 3 & 4)
09 - Otis Spann - Someday Baby (Take 5)
10 - Otis Spann - Someday Baby (Take 6)
11 - Otis Spann - She Needs Some Loving (Take 1)
12 - Otis Spann - Dig You (Take 1)
13 - Otis Spann - Dig You (Takes 2 & 3)
14 - Otis Spann - She's Out Of Sight (Takes 1, 2 & 3)

Although Otis Spann will always be known as the piano player in the Muddy Waters Band, his solo work should not be overlooked. Possessing a beautifully expressive voice, Spann was also a facile songwriter, and freed of the restrictions inherent in a working electric blues band, his solo sides find him stretching out on piano as well. This two-disc set is a true treasure, containing a badly needed remixed version of 1969's The Biggest Thing Since Colossus LP plus several alternate takes, false starts, and unreleased songs. The Colossus sessions took place in January 1969 (there are a couple tracks here that date from late in 1968), a little over a year before Spann's death in 1970, and found him working with Blue Horizon label owner Mike Vernon and the Peter Green-era version of Fleetwood Mac (who Vernon managed). Spann is in fine voice here, delivering artful blues numbers that are just this side of jazz in execution, and the Fleetwood Mac boys are surprisingly sympathetic to it, making this a delightful release and one that no real fan of Spann should be without.

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