Cryin' Time

Performer: Otis Spann
Producer: Michael Chechik; Sam Charters
Distributor: Welk

Notes: Personnel: Otis Spann (vocals, piano, organ); Barry Melton, Luther Johnson (guitar); Jos Davidson (bass); Lonnie Taylor (drums); Lucille Spann (background vocals). Recorded at Universal Studios, Chicago. Includes original release liner notes by Otis Spann. Personnel: Otis Spann (vocals, piano, organ); Lucille Spann (vocals, background vocals); Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, Barry Melton (guitar); Lonnie Taylor (drums). Liner Note Author: Otis Spann. Recording information: Universal Studios, Chicago, IL. While the Muddy Waters sideman is best known for piano, his soulful organ steals the show on this late-'60s release. His singing is serviceable, helped by wife Lucille Spann on two cuts. Country Joe & the Fish co-founder Barry Melton plays lead guitar, with Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson taking the second chair. ~ Mark Allan

Otis Spann is considered one of blues music's greatest piano players. His career began after he settled in Chicago in the late 1940s; by the '50s he had become an ace session man for the legendary Chess label, appearing on sides by Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, and, most memorably, the great Muddy Waters. Spann would prove a key influence on the British blues boom of the 1960s, and it was through that world that he would garner his highest profile as a solo artist, even cutting an album with the Peter Green-led version of Fleetwood Mac, 1969's THE BIGGEST THING SINCE COLOSSUS. Spann died of cancer in 1970 at the age of 40.

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