Otis Spann
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Muddy Waters, Chris Barber: St. Pancras Town Hall, London
Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 25 October 1958
I WAS surprised to read that Muddy Waters was coolly received in Leeds. At his London appearance on Monday the applause was hot and strong. ...
Live Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 2 November 1963
THAT FESTIVAL ...
Report by uncredited writer, Pop Star Pictorial, 1964
The latest and greatest on the Beat Scene? — Yes, it's R&B groups like the Rolling Stones ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, May 1967
THERE AREN'T many new blues albums around, much less a label devoted to blues product. Why, you might ask, when the demand for blues is ...
Muddy Waters and Otis Spann: End of the Soul Half-Brothers
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 7 December 1968
I WAS playing some records with Otis Spann and S.P. Leary in their hotel on London's Cromwell Road last week. ...
Top of the chart Fleetwood Mac act as a backing group!
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 8 February 1969
WHICH TOP British group acted as a backing group for another artist while their own record was number one? ...
Otis Spann: All Alone Otis Is Feeling No Pain
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 5 July 1969
ON OTIS Spann's last visit to this country, with Muddy Waters in November, I wrote that the Waters-Spann partnership would soon be ended. ...
Albert King, Otis Spann, Champion Jack Dupree: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 5 November 1969
THE HERO of our times is a man who plays blues guitar, and the hero of heroes is Albert King. Huge, gentle, he holds his ...
Albert King, Otis Spann et al: American Folk, Blues & Gospel Festival, Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Jerry Gilbert, Melody Maker, 8 November 1969
JOHN LEE HOOKER'S absence from the American Folk, Blues & Gospel Festival was without the consequence that at first seemed likely when the tour opened ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
b. 21 March 1930, Jackson, Mississippi, USA, d. 24 April 1970, Chicago, Illinois ...
see also Muddy Waters
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