Shuggie Otis - Freedom Flight (1971)
Son of R&B great Johnny Otis, Freedom Flight was Shuggie's second solo album, released in 1971. As a kid Shuggie Otis spent years playing guitar in his father’s band, receiving an enviable musical education. Using the blues as a starting point, Otis effortlessly blended California’s psychedlic rock, funk, jazz, and blues genres of the times into a unique style all his own, composing and arranging and performing it nearly by himself, This album was created by Shuggie the age of eighteen.
Otis is a master guitarist, and his rippling fretwork and creative mind shine in this little known masterpiece of sound.
Tracklist:
1. Ice Cold Daydream
2. Strawberry Letter
3. Swang Thang
4. Me & My Woman
5. Someone's Always Singing
6. Purple
7. Freedom Flight
8. One Room Country Shack (bonus track)
Many thanks to Cacu from the lake band for the share
Personnel: Shuggie Otis (vocals, guitar, piano, celeste, harpsichord, organ, bass, drums, percussion)
Johnny Otis (piano, celeste, harpsichord, tympani, percussion)
Al Kooper (piano, organ); Ray Johnson (piano)
George Duke (electric piano, celeste, organ)
Leon Haywood (organ)
Wilton Felder (celeste, harpsichord, electric bass)
Al McKibbon (acoustic bass)
Stu Woods (bass)
Stix Hopper, Abe Mills, Paul Lagos, Aynsley Dunbar, Mike Kowalski (drums).
Much Peace n luv to my friends at 1337x and blazinseedboxes
Medio Info:
Complete name : Freedom Flight (original)
Format : MPEG Audio
Overall bit rate : 224 Kbps
Album : Freedom Flight
Album/Performer : Shuggie Otis
Performer : Shuggie Otis
Genre : Rock
Recorded date : 1970
Writing library : LAME3.97
Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 224 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 5.42 MiB (100%)
Writing library : LAME3.97
Encoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 5 -lowpass 19.4 -b 224
