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Boasting fellow Chicago blues dynamo James Cotton on both harmonica and lead vocals, The Blues Never Die! is one of Otis Spann's most inspired albums. When this session was recorded for Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary in 1964, Spann was still best known for playing acoustic piano in Muddy Waters' band. But The Blues Never Die! (which Fantasy reissued on CD in 1990 on its Original Blues Classics imprint) shows that he was as great a leader as he was a sideman. From Willie Dixon's "I'm Ready" (a Chess gem Spann had played numerous times with Waters) and Elmore James' "Dust My Broom" to Cotton's spirited "Feelin' Good" and Spann's dark-humored "Must Have Been the Devil," Spann and Cotton enjoy a very strong rapport on this consistently rewarding date.
© Alex Henderson /TiVo
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Otis Spann, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 Prestige Records, Inc./Original Blues Classics
Otis Spann, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Fantasy, Inc.
Otis Spann, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Fantasy, Inc.
James Cotton, ComposerLyricist - Otis Spann, MainArtist
℗ 1965 Fantasy, Inc.
Otis Spann, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Fantasy, Inc.
ELMORE JAMES, ComposerLyricist - Robert Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Otis Spann, MainArtist
℗ 1965 Stax Records
Otis Spann, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Stax Records
Otis Spann, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Fantasy, Inc.
Otis Spann, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Fantasy, Inc.
James Cotton, ComposerLyricist - Otis Spann, MainArtist
℗ 1965 Fantasy, Inc.
WILLIE DIXON, ComposerLyricist - Otis Spann, MainArtist
℗ 1965 Fantasy, Inc.
Album review
Boasting fellow Chicago blues dynamo James Cotton on both harmonica and lead vocals, The Blues Never Die! is one of Otis Spann's most inspired albums. When this session was recorded for Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary in 1964, Spann was still best known for playing acoustic piano in Muddy Waters' band. But The Blues Never Die! (which Fantasy reissued on CD in 1990 on its Original Blues Classics imprint) shows that he was as great a leader as he was a sideman. From Willie Dixon's "I'm Ready" (a Chess gem Spann had played numerous times with Waters) and Elmore James' "Dust My Broom" to Cotton's spirited "Feelin' Good" and Spann's dark-humored "Must Have Been the Devil," Spann and Cotton enjoy a very strong rapport on this consistently rewarding date.
© Alex Henderson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:33:52
- Main artists: Otis Spann
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Original Blues Classics
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Blues
© 1990 Fantasy, Inc. ℗ 1990 Fantasy, Inc.
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