Otis Spann – The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (2006)

Disc: 1
01. Can't Do Me No Good
02. Bloody Murder
03. Someday Soon Baby
04. Hungry Country Girl
05. My Love Depends On You
06. Walkin'
07. It Was A Big Thing
08. Temperature Is Rising (100.2F)
09. Dig You
10. No More Doggin'
11. Ain't Nobody's Business
12. She Needs Some Loving
13. I Need Some Air
14. Someday Baby

Disc: 2
01. No More Doggin'
02. No More Doggin'
03. I Need Some Air
04. Walkin'
05. Walkin'
06. Blues For Hippies
07. Temperature Is Rising (98.8F)
08. Someday Baby
09. Someday Baby
10. Someday Baby
11. She Needs Some Loving
12. Dig You
13. Dig You
14. She's Out Of Sight

Personnel: 
Otis Spann (vocals, piano); 
Danny Kirwan, Johnny Shines (guitar); 
Walter Horton (harmonica); 
Willie Dixon (upright bass); 
John McVie (bass guitar); 
Clifton James, Mick Fleetwood, S.P. Leary (drums).

Although Otis Spann will always be known as the piano player in the Muddy Waters Band, his solo work should not be overlooked. Possessing a beautifully expressive voice, Spann was also a facile songwriter, and freed of the restrictions inherent in a working electric blues band, his solo sides find him stretching out on piano as well. This two-disc set is a true treasure, containing a badly needed remixed version of 1969's The Biggest Thing Since Colossus LP plus several alternate takes, false starts, and unreleased songs. The Colossus sessions took place in January 1969 (there are a couple tracks here that date from late in 1968), a little over a year before Spann's death in 1970, and found him working with Blue Horizon label owner Mike Vernon and the Peter Green-era version of Fleetwood Mac (who Vernon managed). Spann is in fine voice here, delivering artful blues numbers that are just this side of jazz in execution, and the Fleetwood Mac boys are surprisingly sympathetic to it, making this a delightful release and one that no real fan of Spann should be without. ---Steve Leggett, Rovi

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