The Blues Never Die!

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Total Tracks: 11   Total Length: 34:29

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One of the best!!

Dr_d_in_Steel_City

Great album even if James Cotton should also have been noted on the cover as an equal contributor to Otis. Missing from any notation in the emusic version is the guest appearance noted on the LP by "Dirty Rivers" on guitar (and, yes, the quotes were on the LP liner notes--wonder who Dirty may have been--probably a Muddy fellow). One More Mile to Go is Chicago blues at its best and blows Muddy Waters version away.

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Otis Spann

greybeard

A Great album done in the old school style of blues singers probabley one of the most under rated singers of the 20th centuary, A great friend god bless you Otis

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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

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