Shuggie Otis is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist. Otis' composition "Strawberry Letter 23" topped the Billboard R&B chart and reached #5 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977.
A blues guitar prodigy who’d been playing with his father (pioneering R&B bandleader Johnny Otis) since he was 11, Otis played on Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats when he was 16, and released an album with blues-rock gadabout Al Kooper before he was 20. Though he stayed out of the recording process, Johnny Otis served as the executive producer for his son’s work, and he convinced Columbia to build Shuggie a home studio to record Inspiration, which took the better part of three years.
In 1974, Otis released Inspiration Information. The album had taken almost three years to finish. All the songs were written and arranged by Otis himself, who played almost exclusively every musical instrument on the album (except for horns and various stringed instruments). Inspiration Information gained a huge cult following during the 1990s with the emergence of rare groove and acid jazz. Inspiration instantly earned comparisons to Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, and reportedly made Sly Stone’s jaw drop upon hearing it.
The second CD, Wings of Love, is the collection’s real revelation, comprising 14 tracks that Otis recorded between 1975 and 2000. Wings reveals that while Otis was reclusive, he was far from idle. Reissues are pop music’s preeminent form of historical revisionism, but the great thing about the Inspiration and Wings set is that combined, they’re closer to a parallel universe greatest-hits compilation, in a world where a label embraced Otis’ genius and eccentricity, instead of driving him away altogether.
Tracklist:
CD One: Inspiration Information
1. Inspiration Information
2. Island Letter
3. Sparkle City
4. Aht Uh Mi Hed
5. Happy House
6. Rainy Day
7. XL-30
8. Pling!
9. Not Available
10. Miss Pretty
11. Magic
12. Things We Like To Do
13. Castle Top Jam
CD Two: Wings of Love
1. Intro
2. Special
3. Give Me Something Good
4. Tryin' To Get Close To You
5. Walkin' Down The Country
6. Doin’ What’s Right
7. Wings Of Love
8. Give Me A Chance
9. Don't You Run Away
10. Fireball of Love
11. Fawn
12. If You'd Be Mine
13. Black Belt Sheriff
14. Destination You!
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