Otis Spann - Archive Of Folk Music

Size: 91,4 MB
Time: 39:27
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1968
Styles: Piano Blues
Art: Front, back
Vinyl rip

1. Good Morning Mr. Blues (3:21)
2. Love Love Love (2:30)
3. Riverside Blues (3:19)
4. Must Have Been The Devil (2:56)
5. Jelly Roll Baker (4:08)
6. Trouble In Mind (3:28)
7. Woried Life Blues (4:06)
8. T.B. Blues (4:11)
9. Spann's Boogie (2:12)
10. Don't You Know (4:34)
11. Goin' Down Slow (4:37)

Spann's biological father Friday Ford was a locally renowned pianist and his mother's name was Josephine Erby, who played guitar and sang. She had played with Memphis Minnie and Bessie Smith, among others. Spann taught himself how to play the piano. Not even 10 years old, he played the piano and organ in his stepfather's church. With his cousin, the pianist Johnnie Jones (1924-1964), who later recorded with Elmore James, he played in bars and parties in his teens. Spann completed his military service in Japan and Germany between 1947 and 1951. After that he was a pianist in Muddy Waters' band for a long time, and in fact he never completely left the band, not even when he formed his own combo. Early in the 1950s he proved himself as the principal studio pianist for Chess Records in Chicago. There he accompanied, among others, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. In 1958, Spann and Muddy Waters played with British trombonist Chris Barber's band on a UK tour. In 1960 Spann recorded an LP for Candid Records with Robert Junior Lockwood, which was highly acclaimed by critics and is considered one of his best. During the American-Folk-Blues-Festival tour, he recorded a solo record for Storyville in Copenhagen in October 1963, with only vocals and piano. On the same day he accompanied Lonnie Johnson, who recorded an LP for the same label. In 1965/1966 he recorded under his own name for Testament Records (solo and with the drummer Robert Whitehead). In 1966 he accompanied Johnny Shines, Eddie Taylor and Floyd Jones on their releases with the same label. In 1965, the then line-up of the Muddy Waters Band recorded an album for Prestige Records. Muddy Waters himself performed as Dirty Rivers on these recordings due to an exclusive contract with Chess Records. Although the record was released under Spann's name, James Cotton was an equal frontman. The entire 1960s were very productive for the studio pianist Spann. In addition to working for Chess Records, he recorded under his own name for Vanguard Records with a full band and only drummer S.P. Leary, he recorded LPs with John Lee Hooker for Bluesway and Big Mama Thornton for Arhoolie Records as a member of the Muddy Waters Band. At the latter label he played piano in 1968 on an LP by guitarist and mandolin player Johnny Young. In the late 1960s he played on albums by Buddy Guy, Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac. Since his divorce from Muddy Waters, he has supported his wife Lucille Spann in her singing career. He put his last musical accents on Southside Blues Jam (Delmark Records) by the singer and blues harp player Junior Wells.

Archive Of Folk Music MP3

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