Otis Spann - The Blues Never Die!

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 33:57
Size: 77.7 MB
Styles: Chicago blues
Year: 1990
Art: Front

[3:40] 1. The Blues Never Die
[2:51] 2. I Got A Feeling
[3:49] 3. One More Mile To Go
[3:25] 4. Feelin' Good
[3:56] 5. After Awile
[2:36] 6. Dust My Broom
[2:30] 7. Must Have Been The Devil
[2:39] 8. Come On
[2:40] 9. Must Have Been The Devil
[2:42] 10. Lightnin'
[3:03] 11. I'm Ready

Boasting fellow Chicago blues dynamo James Cotton on both harmonica and lead vocals, The Blues Never Die! is one of Otis Spann's most inspired albums. When this session was recorded for Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary in 1964, Spann was still best known for playing acoustic piano in Muddy Waters' band. But The Blues Never Die! (which Fantasy reissued on CD in 1990 on its Original Blues Classics imprint) shows that he was as great a leader as he was a sideman. From Willie Dixon's "I'm Ready" (a Chess gem Spann had played numerous times with Waters) and Elmore James' "Dust My Broom" to Cotton's spirited "Feelin' Good" and Spann's dark-humored "Must Have Been the Devil," Spann and Cotton enjoy a very strong rapport on this consistently rewarding date. ~ Alex Henderson

Recorded in Chicago, November 21, 1964. Orignally released on Prestige 7391.

Otis Spann (piano, vocals), James Cotton (harmonica, vocals), James Madison, "Dirty Rivers" [Muddy Waters] (guitars), Milton Rector (bass) and S.P. Leary (drums).

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