LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Richard Berry -Doin It Richard Berry - Truckin Machine Richard Berry - Louie Louie Richard Berry - Ooh Baby I Love You Johnny Otis - Willie And The Hand Jive Johnny Otis - Country Girl Johnny Otis - Bad Luck Shadow Charles Brown - Big Legged Woman Louis Jordan -I Got The Walkin' Blues Joe Liggins -Boom Chick A Boogie Joe Liggins- Stinky Eddie Vinson - Sugar Eddie Vinson- Midnight Creeper Roy Milton - I Got A Big Fat Mama Joe Turner- Corrine Corrine Pee Wee Crayton- If I Ever Get Lucky Gatemouth Moore- Somebody Got To Go, Gatemouth Moore - Boogie Woogie Papa, Gatemouth Moore - Everybody Has Their Turn, Gatemouth Moore -Were You Loving Me Gatemouth Moore -Going Down Slow The reissue of the 1975 Shuggie Otis album Inspiration Information last year caused a storm, one of the great albums and careers that time forgot. A soul album tinged with jazz and off kilter funk, its DIY approach and lo-fi electronics predicted much of what would follow at the end of the 20th Century. The album was recorded at sessions during the period 1972-1974. Before, during and after this period Shuggie Otis continued his work as a session musician partly for his father 's (Johnny Otis) ongoing productions at his own Hawk Sound Studios, where much of Inspiration Information was recorded. What RPM presents you with is the best of the sessions Otis jnr recorded around the same period in the same studio with many of the same sidemen. The specific project Johnny Otis had embarked upon was 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 session guitarist, pianist, arranger, writer The music on our compilation is a mixture of blues, r&b, funk, soul, all recorded in the same DIY lo-fi way at Hawk Sound studios, across 1973-1977 with many of the same sidemen such as brass players Jack Kelso, Doug Wintz and Curt Sletten. It represents a perfect back drop to the famous Inspiration album. The RPM release comes in a digipack with an essay on Shuggie written by Clive Richardson, who wrote the notes on the original Blues Spectrum albums when released in the UK in the early 1970's.