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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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