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Artist:
OTIS, SHUGGIE
Title:
Inspiration Information
Label:
LUAKA BOP
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
LBOP 045CD
2001 remaster; subtitled
World Psychedelic Classics 2: California Soul
. "Otis' smooth, trippy soul-funk opus,
Inspiration Information
-- first released in 1974, now remastered and reissued by David Byrne's Luaka Bop label with four bonus tracks from 1971's
Freedom Flight
-- was his third album for Epic records; in the Stevie Wonder soul-auteur vein, he wrote, sang and played almost every instrument on the album. Songs like 'Happy House' and 'Strawberry Letter 23' (a number one R&B hit for the Brothers Johnson) embraced the incense-and-peppermint psychedelia of the times without falling out of the pocket. The electronic grooves of 'XL-30' and the Isaac Hayes-like power of 'Not Available' reveals an expansive creativity that appeared unlimited -- maybe even a Prince-size talent in the making." --
Rolling Stone
Artist:
OTIS, SHUGGIE
Title:
In Session Information
Label:
RPM (UK)
Format:
LP
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
RPM 509LP
"This is the best of the sessions Shuggie Otis recorded around the same period (and in the same studio where) he cut the 1975 classic album
Inspiration Information
. Johnny Otis had embarked on a project to record some of the pioneers of R&B in a modern context for release on the Blues Spectrum label series. Shuggie was used as guitarist, pianist, arranger and writer. A mixture of blues, R&B, funk and soul all recorded in the same DIY lo-fi way at Hawk Sound studios between 1973 and 1977." 180 gram HQ vinyl.
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