The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
It is an unequivocal Good Thing that someone has made a movie --- Cadillac Records --- about the down-and-dirty Chicago music that began as...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Living Blues (1-2/95, p.104) - "...Along with several originals, the duo samples Sonny Boy Williamson II, Muddy Waters, Floyd Jones, Big Maceo, Otis Spann, Big Walter and Mercy Dee. If this sort of uncluttered and introspective blues session sounds appealing, this disc comes highly recommended. Personnel includes: Little Anthony Geraci (vocals, piano); Sugar Ray Norcia (harmonica). Tracks: 1.: Take...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Many blues aficionados listen to Muddy Waters' classic Chicago blues sides of the '50s and '60s not only for his expressive vocals and searing slide guitar, but for pianist Otis Spann, who was almost without question the greatest pianist in the Chicago blues style. It was only his early death in 1970 at the age of 40 (when he was finally beginning to start his career as a bandleader in earnest) that...
Bluesdiary (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Otis Spann - The Blues Never Die When you’re in trouble, the Blues is the man’s best friend. Otis Spann Super-Song-Premiere
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Live, at Mark Naftalin's Blue Monday Party, Fairfax, CA. 1981. Written by Otis Spann, a song that has become a blues standard originally recorded by Sleepy John Estes. This song is notable for having various artists cover it. Most, if not all, versions use some variant of the chorus line: "Someday baby / You ain't gonna [sic] worry my life anymore.
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
A two-record set culled from sessions the Peter Green/Danny Kirwan/Mick Fleetwood/John McVie edition of the band held at Chess Studios in Chicago in January 1969 with such blues legends as Otis Spann and Willie Dixon. Despite their awe, the Brits hold their own on a set of standards. (Reissued on CD under the title In Chicago 1969 on April 26, 1994.) --- b y William Ruhlmann, Allmusic ***** This is...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Personnel includes: Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters (vocals, guitar); Howlin' Wolf (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica); Cookie Vee (vocals, tambourine); Hubert Sumlin (guitar); Otis Spann (piano); Buddy Guy (bass); Clifton James (drums). Tracks 1. Long Distance Call 2. Goin' Down Slow 3. You Don't Love Me 4. I'm a Man 5. Who Do You Love 6. The Red Rooster 7. Diddley Daddy 8. I Just Want to Make Love to...
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
Jimmy Rogers is one of the most important and influential figures in the history of Chicago blues. The last remaining link to such classic figures as Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter and Otis Spann, Jimmy helped pioneer and develop the archetypal Chicago Blues sound with his bandmate Muddy Waters from 1947 to 1954. Today he's still a leader in a vital and satisfying tradition. "All my career I've...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
Previously unreleased recordings of the electric blues landing in Manchester shatter the myth that Muddy Waters shocked little old England
nongseynyo (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Mac Arnold, former bass player for the legendary Muddy Waters, is back with Nothing To Prove. Mac is one of the original links in the blues chain. Having recorded with John Lee Hooker, Otis Spann, and Tyrone Davis, he has truly left his footprints in the blues foundation and is still making tracks! Mac now resides in Pelzer, S.C. where at the age of ten he got his first taste of the Blues when he...
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
Barry Murphy returns once more trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to) to find anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from...
Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
Three blues harp players recorded in the early Sixties - Howlin Wolf - dollar bill in one hand, harmonica in the other. It's supposed to be "How Many More Years", but it isn't. Not that it matters. Big Walter 'Shakey'...
Bluesdiary (Free subscription) | 12/08/2007
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LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 12/07/2007
This is a compilation album that isn't, a live album that isn't (at least in a couple of spots), and a Muddy Waters album that isn't, if one counts the appearances by four other artists on it. But for all things it isn't, it is also just happens to be one of the greatest and [...]
