PRE-ORDER Otis Grand - Live At Burnley Blues Festival: Collaborations & Rarities

Description: PRE-ORDER Otis Grand - Live At Burnley Blues Festival: Collaborations & Rarities [New CD]ATTENTION: This is a PRE-ORDER Title. This item cannot be shipped before the official release date of Feb 02 2024 . You will not receive this item before the Release Date. Artist: Otis Grand Title: Live At Burnley Blues Festival: Collaborations & Rarities Condition: Format: CD Release Date: 2024 Label: JSP Records UPC: 788065251123 Genre: Blues Album TracksDISC 1:1. Please Don't Leave Me2. Later Than You Think3. Stabbed in the Back4. Burnley City Limits5. Love at First Sight6. Whole Lotta Lovin'7. Otis Rocks8. Woke Up This Morning9. Jump for Joy10. Down in New Orleans11. That's My LifeDISC 2:1. I Like It This Way2. Camilla's Hop3. Insomnia4. Hot & Saucy, Short and Grand5. Cheese & Crackers6. I'm the One7. Sit Right Here8. Chains of Love9. I Want a Big Fat Mama10. No Reason11. When You Got a Woman12. When I Saw You This Morning13. All Your Love14. Lookin' Good (Instrumental)15. Fear No Evil16. Strictly Reserved for You17. White Fox Otis Grand - Live At Burnley Blues Festival: Collaborations & Rarities / Otis Grand and I had been working on this project off and on for a few years before his tragic and untimely death. What we have here is a part of a magnificent body of work. Otis was guitarist, producer, bandleader, songwriter and general key figure on the blues scene. In the mid 1980s I was busy touring some great U.S. Blues acts all over the U.K. Suddenly out of nowhere comes this American guitarist with a British band and a great singer in Earl Green. Otis Grand became the biggest thing on the British circuit and in Europe too. Later on we would spend time together around the first Burnley Blues Festival. Otis had his very well deserved headlining spot. It's that show which is Disc A here and it is released in it's entirety for the first time. Our first real artistic collaboration was the Guitar Shorty album. I had heard rumours of this incredible L.A. based guitarist who was the brother in law of Jimi Hendrix. I thought Otis was the perfect bandleader to back Shorty playing real blues style, no going 'commercial' and no nod to blues/rock. The result... perfection. The next opportunity was a real legend Phillip Walker. This track was cut at a lovely studio in London. Texas Blues with an L.A. twist was Phillip's style and this track stands with his best. The next studio set we collaborated on was with the man who virtually invented honking tenor sax, Joe Houston. We also have Otis with Joe Louis Walker - both at the top of their game here. What's most important is not personalities, egos, honour or 'reputations'... but the art, the music. Throughout my time in this blues game I have become used to losing dear friends... but sometimes a loss leaves a particularly large hole in one's life. Otis Grand was a man and artist so much more than the sum of his particular parts and talents. Otis was Lebanese/American and a many faceted person who had his roots in several different cultures. It is our luck and honour that one of them was the Blues. John Stedman© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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