The Blues Is Where It's At

Performer: Otis Spann
Artist: Muddy Waters
Engineer: Bobby Arnold
Producer: Bob Thiele
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: Personnel includes: Otis Spann, Luther Johnson, Sammy Lawhorn. Personnel: Otis Spann (vocals, piano); Muddy Waters (vocals, guitar); Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, Sammy Lawhorn (guitar); George "Harmonica" Smith (harmonica); Mac Arnold (electric bass); Francis Clay, Little Willie Smith (drums). Liner Note Author: Stanley Dance. Photographer: Charles Shabacon.

Rolling Stone (12/7/68, p.27) - "...[Spann is] the finest blues pianist to be heard anywhere these days....the approach [here] is mainstream postwar Chicago blues...solid, full of good spirits, and rhythmically very powerful..."

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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