Shuggie Otis Discography
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 Shuggie OtisIn Session Information Release Date 2003 02 27 Label RPM Rating:  In Session Information is an entirely different release than another Shuggie Otis compilation that came out in 2002 with a similar title, In Session: Great Rhythm & Blues. The confusion is enhanced by similar contents on both discs, however, as each assembles Otis session work on which he backed '50s R&B stars who were long past their commercial prime. In fact, about half of In Session Information's 15 cuts also appear on the 22-track In Session: Great Rhythm & Blues, so you'll have to get both CDs if you're serious about your Otis session appearance library. The larger question is whether such session work is worth acquiring, even if you're a serious Otis fan, for these songs are acceptable but hardly great mid-'70s recordings for father Johnny Otis' Blues Spectrum label, in which the sounds (and, often, one-time hit songs) of veterans Richard Berry, Roy Milton, Eddie Vinson, Charles Brown, Joe Liggins, and Johnny Otis himself were updated with soul and funk arrangements. It's not a Shuggie Otis album, though he's the billed artist on the cover; he adds good blues-rock-R&B guitar licks, but he's not the star of the show, and this is far from his most original work. For that matter, the original versions of tracks like Johnny Otis' &"Signifying Monkey" and &"Willie and the Hand Jive," Berry's &"Louie Louie," and Brown's &"Black Night" are certainly preferable to these competent remakes. Richie Unterberger, Rovi |
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Doin' It | Otis, Berry | 3:15 |
| 2 | Country Girl | Otis, Evans | 2:35 |
| 3 | Signifyin' Monkey | Traditional | 3:04 |
| 4 | I've Got a Big Fat Mama | Milton | 2:58 |
| 5 | Sugar | Otis, Ballard, Bass | 3:06 |
| 6 | Trackin' Machine | Otis, Berry | 2:40 |
| 7 | I Wanna Make You Happy | Berry | 3:12 |
| 8 | Black Night | Robinson | 3:06 |
| 9 | Louie, Louie | Berry | 2:15 |
| 10 | Willie and the Hand Jive | Otis | 2:44 |
| 11 | Big Legged Woman | Brown, Otis, Otis | 2:52 |
| 12 | Trouble Blues | Brown | 2:40 |
| 13 | (Ooh Baby) I Love You | Berry | 3:48 |
| 14 | 'Round About Midnight | Berry | 4:02 |
| 15 | Boom-Chick-A-Boogie | Otis, Liggins | 3:43 |
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