Otis Grand - Live, Collaborations & Rarities [CD]

JSP

£16.18

Cat. no: JSP2511
Format: CD
Barcode: 0788065251123
Release Date: 12 Jan 2024
Genre: Blues

Otis Grand and I had been working on this project for a few years before his untimely death - What we have here is a part of a magnifcent body of work - Otis was guitarist, producer, bandleader, songwriter and key fgure on the blues scene

In the mid 1980s I was busy touring some great USA Blues acts in the UK when out of nowhere comes this American guitarist. Otis Grand became the biggest thing on the British circuit and in Europe too. Later we spent time at the frst Burnley Blues Festival. Otis had the headlining spot and it's that show which is Disc A here released in its entirety. Our frst artistic collaboration was the Guitar Shorty album. Otis was the perfect bandleader to back Shorty playing real blues, not 'commercial' or blues/ rock. Next came legend Phillip Walker - Texas Blues with an L.A. twist. And then Joe Houston who virtually invented honking tenor. We also have Otis with Joe Louis Walker at the top of their game.

Otis Grand was a man and artist much more than the sum of his parts and talents. Otis was Lebanese/American and a many faceted person who had roots in different cultures. It is our luck and honour that one of them was the Blues.

John Stedman

Tracks: Please Don't Leave Me / Later Than You Think / Stabbed In The Back / Burnley City Limits / Love At First Sight / Whole Lotta Lovin' / Otis Rocks / Woke Up This Morning / Jump For Joy / Down In New Orleans / That's My Life / . / I Like It This Way / Camilla's Hop / Insomnia / Hot & Saucy, Short And Grand / Cheese & Crackers / I'm The One / Sit Right Here / Chains Of Love / I Want A Big Fat Mama / No Reason / When You Got A Woman / When I Saw You This Morning / All Your Love / Lookin' Good (Instrumental) / Fear No Evil / Strictly Reserved For You / White Fox