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Walking the Blues
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Track Listing
- It Must Have Been the Devil
- Otis' Blues
- Goin' Down Slow
- Half Ain't Been Told
- Monkey Face Blues
- This Is the Blues
- Can't Stand Your Evil Ways
- Come Day, Go Day
- Walkin' the Blues
- Bad Condition
- My Home Is in the Delta
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #20345 in Music
- Released on: 1989-03-01
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .21 pounds
Customer Reviews
The greatest blues piano artist ever!
Otis Spann was the piano player in the famous Muddy Waters blues band in Chicago from 1953 to 1969. On this record we get a chance to listen to Otis Spann singing and playing the piano solo (accompanied by a guitar only). 40 years have passed since this recording was made. Looking back I have to confess that in my judgement Otis Spann was the greater talent of the two. Today, the music of Otis Spann is still fresh, original and timeless in its deep "soulfulness" while in comparison, the music of Muddy Waters sounds to me dated and somewhat artificial in its heavy reliance on the "electrified" sound of the guitar. According to Waters, Spann "is the best blues piano player we have today. There is no one left like him who plays the real, solid, bottom blues" (a quote from an interview given by Waters in the late 1960's). Waters also liked to emphasize that Spann played the piano "with both hands" (refering to the strong and articulate left hand in Spann's piano playing). Otis Spann died rather young at the age of 40 in 1970 appearently as a poor man, while Muddy Waters continued his successful career until his death in 1983 at the age of 68.
Otis Spann - Walking the blues with bonus tracks!
To my surprise I got in Nov. 2007 the "Walking the Blues" (Otis Spann) CD with 7 extra splendid tracks of him, not mentioned in the booklet (picture different from the advertised one). Thank you very much!
Real life, great stuff.
Otis Spann has a heavenly facility at the keys, and through it he expresses not only the gamut of human feelings, but the combinations and conflicts of feelings that we all experience. I really enjoy this disk.
