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	Shuggie Otis Lost and Found
		Shuggie Otis abruptly "retired" from the music business a few years later at the age of 22 years old.
		Shuggie was eventually dropped from the label, and his subsequent disillusionment with record company politics led to a 25-year absence from the spotlight, although he continued to perform with his father, legendary bandleader Johnny Otis.
		I only hope that the exposure being afforded Shuggie now as a result of the album's reissue, and the media blitz surrounding it, enables him to both revive his career where he left off in 1974, and to reach an audience far wider than the one which initially greeted this brilliant and singular work.
	www.soul-patrol.com /funk/shuggie.htm (1292 words)

	Shuggie Otis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shuggie Otis (born in 1953) is an American rock, blues, and funk guitarist and songwriter.
		He is the son of rhythm and blues musician, bandleader, and impresario Johnny Otis.
		Shuggie Otis began performing professionally at the age of 12, often disguising himself with dark glasses and a false moustache so that he could play in nightclubs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shuggie_Otis (321 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Shuggie Otis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Johnny Otis (born John Veliotes on December 28, 1921 in Vallejo, California) is an American blues and rhythm and blues pianist, vibraphonist, drummer, singer, bandleader, and impresario.
		Otis threw a fit at the recording studio and Heck left town early, without any alternate tracks (the CD is fleshed out with cuts from other Otis solo albums, including the extraordinary 1971 album "Freedom Flight," with the original version of "Strawberry Letter 23").
		Otis is planning to put together a band -- he last gigged with his own band on a few Canadian nightclub shows three years ago -- but says he needs a bass player, even though his 28-year-old son, Lucky, teaches and plays the instrument.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shuggie-Otis (1038 words)

	Shuggie Otis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shuggie Otis (born in 1953) is an American[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] rock Rock and roll quick summary:
		Johnny otis (born john veliotes on december 28, 1921 in vallejo, california) is an american blues and rhythm and blues vibraphonist, drummer,...
		Shuggie Otis began performing professionally at the age of 12, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shuggie_otis.htm (938 words)

	Splendid: Departments: The Essential Albums
		A musical prodigy, Shuggie Otis cut his recording debut with his father, rhythm and blues bandleader Johnny Otis, at the tender age of thirteen.
		Aside from his prodigal grasp of guitar, Otis was an extraordinary drummer and vibraphone player, pianist, organist and bassist, even excelling as an arranger of horns and strings.
		By this time, Otis had not only immersed himself in drum-machine technology (then in its infancy), but had taken the bold step of assuming total creative and artistic control over the record, handling almost all of the performance, production and arrangements himself.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/essential/ea91503.html (1174 words)

	Shuggie Otis, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Guitarist/singer/songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist Shuggie Otis may not be a household name, but his "Strawberry Letter 23" is in the record collections of millions of households.
		Otis' Freedom Flight was issued September 1971 and included the original version of "Strawberry Letter 23," the heart-tugging "Someone's Always Singing," "Ice Cold Daydream," and the bluesy "Me and My Woman," co-written by Otis and Gene Barge (known best for his association with Chess Records, Chuck Willis, and Natalie Cole).
		Shuggie Otis is featured in the book Alligator Records Presents West Coast Blues, issued in August 1998 by Milwaukee, WI, publisher Hal Leonard.
	www.emusic.com /artist/11499/11499579.html (560 words)

	Popular Music : Shuggie's Boogie: Shuggie Otis Plays the Blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shuggie, played on stage that day with my Uncle "Pee Wee" Crayton and his dad Johnny; as well as, a host of ledgendary blues fellas at the 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival ("Live at Monterey" CD ~ Johnny Otis)...
		Shuggie Otis was/is a great guitar player, and this CD showcases a lot of what he has to offer, HOWEVER, that being said the only fault I can find with him is that he truly did not have a "style' of his own.
		Shuggie's dad, Johnny Otis senior played guitar and sang with the best of them for many, many years.
	www.bhavai.com /best_buy-item_id-B0000029K0-search_type-AsinSearch-us.html (251 words)

	shuggie-otis Mp3 Albums Review
		Otis created an alcove all his own; definitely a byproduct of free reign in the studio, as the music is all over the place, yet right where it needs to be at exactly the right moment.
		Shuggie Otis is the son of drummer/pianist/producer Johnny Otis, who is the reason that these seasoned greats can even be heard today.
		Otis himself are but a few of the artist collected on this CD to represent a time and era that will never be matched by today's recording artists.
	www.mp3-find.com /albums_review_shuggie-otis.asp (1960 words)

	Funky16Corners: Shuggie Otis - Strawberry Letter 23
		Shuggie Otis grew up surrounded by blues, RandB and rock’n’roll, but was also, like any other teenager digging the sounds of young America.
		Shuggie was very soft spoken and somewhat suprised at his rediscovery.
		One final note: Shuggie's work hasn't gone completely unnoticed; he was sampled in the early 90's by the hiphop act Digable Planets and trip hop artist Skylab, at least.
	funky16corners.blogspot.com /2006/01/shuggie-otis-strawberry-letter-23.html (1679 words)

	SHUGGIE OTIS : BIOG \| V2 MUSIC : SCANDINAVIA & FINLAND
		Otis, son of the rhythm and blues bandleader Johnny Otis, was a guitar prodigy, but he didn't stop there.
		Johnny Otis says that his son was as natural a musician as they come.
		By the time of its release, Otis had squandered whatever momentum he had earned as a rising star at the turn of the decade.
	se.v2music.com /site/actbio.asp?ID=132 (805 words)

	Smoky Mountain News \| Arts + Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His father, R&B madman Johnny Otis (who was best known for the classic, “Willie and the Hand Jive”) enlisted his son as the band’s guitarist when Shuggie was 12 (he wore dark glasses and a painted moustache to further his age).
		Shuggie returned to traditional blues in the early ‘80s, and he presently plays in his father’s band, and works and records with his own combo (in his native Bay Area).
		Now 48, Shuggie has garnered wisps of fame thanks to the re-release of “Inspiration.” He was recently on David Letterman, and he has a new armada of young rabid fans.
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/03_02/03_13_02/art_shuggie_otis.html (1619 words)

	MetroActive Music \| Shuggie Otis
		Johnny "Shuggie" Otis Jr.--the oldest son of the RandB pioneer and the prototypical blues prodigy--made his recording debut in 1962 at the tender age of 12, playing guitar behind former Raylette singer Ethel Fort.
		Plagued by lingering health problems, Shuggie instead faded from the spotlight, emerging only for an occasional session gig and with a comeback always looming on the horizon.
		"Otis was not exactly sunny--he had a fragility that bordered on melancholy--but he was insular and hermetic and emphatically apolitical; his music has timeless appeal because it never belonged to his time to begin with," notes Greenman.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/06.14.01/otis-0124.html (945 words)

	MetroActive \| Sonoma Independent \| Shuggie Otis
		Johnny Otis Jr.--the oldest son of the RandB pioneer and the prototypical blues prodigy--made his recording debut in 1962 at the tender age of 12, playing guitar behind former Raylette singer Ethel Fort.
		As his interest in the guitar grew, Shuggie began ditching classes and eventually dropped out of high school, all with the blessing of his father, who figured that Shuggie's future lay in the music industry anyway.
		Shuggie Otis performs with the Otis Connection on Friday, Dec. 22, at 9 p.m.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/12.14.95/blues-9550.html (849 words)

	Shuggie Otis' comeback an out-and-out disaster / R&B guitarist, band seem unprepared, unfocused
		His solos were never focused or pointed, just flashy flurries of notes and runs up and down the fretboard that reeked of desperation, a man hopelessly flailing in the water while he drowned.
		Otis has lived in near obscurity since the 1974 release of his third solo album, playing as a sideman in bands led by either his father, R&B pioneer Johnny Otis, or his father-in-law, big band jazz arranger Gerald Wilson.
		Toward the end of the second hour, he suddenly discovered a set list on the back of an amplifier and started consulting it, which may be why he played two songs that he had already performed earlier.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/07/09/DD158107.DTL&type=printable (559 words)

	Shuggie Otis: Here Comes Shuggie Otis / Freedom Flight: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		No, the former child prodigy hasn't spun off this mortal coil just yet, but Shuggie's erstwhile recording career has certainly seen better days-- and unfortunately, those days were 30 years ago.
		Grasping at his 15 minutes three decades after they were due, Shuggie embarked on a major-city tour in the fall of '01, culling voracious audiences on both coasts.
		The liner notes, which are interesting but never revelatory, can't overstress Shuggie's youth during the original recording of Here Comes, and the depth of the record's content certainly belies his 16 years: He played six instruments, sang, and co-wrote each tune with his famous father, bandleader Johnny Otis, Sr.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/o/otis_shuggie/here-comes-freedom-flight.shtml (606 words)

	RPM Records : Shuggie Otis
		Before, during and after this period Shuggie Otis continued his work as a session musician partly for his father 's (Johnny Otis) ongoing productions at his own Hawk Sound Studios, where much of Inspiration Information was recorded.
		The specific project Johnny Otis had embarked upon was to record some of the pioneers of R&B in a modern context for release on the Blues Spectrum label series.
		Shuggie was used as session guitarist, pianist, arranger, writer The music on our compilation is a mixture of blues, r&b, funk, soul, all recorded in the same DIY lo-fi way at Hawk Sound studios, across 1973-1977 with many of the same sidemen such as brass players Jack Kelso, Doug Wintz and Curt Sletten.
	www.cherryred.co.uk /rpm/artists/shuggieotis.htm (282 words)

	Shuggie Otis
		The son of Cali bandleader Johnny Otis and himself a child guitar prodigy, he had a couple good solo blues records under his afro by age 18.
		Shuggie was born too late — or gave up too early.
		While the title track and "Sparkle City" compare to the more paisley side of Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield, Shuggie was a little hard to categorize.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/032201/mus.dq2.shtml (198 words)

	SHUGGIE OTIS / INSPIRATION INFORMATION
		Otis put it all together on his own, playing all the instruments (and programming the drum machine) with the kind of mastery that would later be associated with Prince.
		The only difference is that while they succeeded in their time, Shuggie was left to wait, almost in vain.
		A friend of mine in Oakland who used to go to the same guitar shop as Shuggie, told me that for years the man was known to be down and out.
	www.musthear.com /reviews/inspirationinformation.html (885 words)

	Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information \| Album Review @ Music-Critic.com : the source for music reviews, interviews, ...
		Working in the same time period, the truly seminal Shuggie Otis slipped Inspiration Information, one of the most innovative and influential RandB recordings of the past 25 years, under the mainstream radar.
		A guitar virtuoso, master arranger and an original funk soul brother, Otis had a groove vision that defined the idea of "forward thinking," which is why his music seems so much more at home now than it ever could have in the '70s.
		Otis gives Clapton a run for his money with his bluesy slide work on "Sweet Thang," and he evokes images of Electric Ladyland-era Hendrix on the airy "Freedom Flight." Yet, among the vast soundscape he creates on Inspiration, his guitar is only one instrument in an otherworldly experience.
	www.music-critic.com /urban/otisshuggie_inspiration.htm (618 words)

	luakabop: shuggie otis
		But in the ensuing decades, Shuggie Otis' Inspiration Information became one of pop's phantom classics, a record passed from tape deck to tape deck with ceremonial reverence, known to the cognoscenti (Lenny Kravitz and the Roots' Ahmir "?love" Thompson are big fans), yet unavailable to the public.
		Otis, who was tapped as a possible replacement for Stones guitarist Mick Taylor (he declined), saw his star ascendant in the early '70s, performing with Frank Zappa, Al Kooper, and his father's bands at the tender age of 15.
		Shuggie is the son of Johnny Otis, a rhythm-and-blues pioneer.
	www.luakabop.com /shuggie_otis/cmp/reviews.html (4168 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Inspiration Information - Shuggie Otis at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Conjuring up images of D’angelo, Prince and Lenny Kravitz - Shuggie Otis is one of those artists’ whose music has a timeless quality to it.
		This album was originally released in 1974, when no one was thinking bout Cletta1201 yet and still giving it a listen today it sounds just as contemporary and fresh.
		Not only did Shuggie write all of the songs, but he played all the instruments and did the drum machine programming.
	www.epinions.com /content_59243597444 (739 words)

	Amazon.com: Inspiration Information: Music: Shuggie Otis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Otis, who once turned down an offer to replace Mick Taylor in the Rolling Stones, continues to perform around the Bay Area on his own and with his father, bandleader Johnny Otis.
		Shuggie may very well be the "missing link" between the Sly-Jimi-Stevie heyday of the late 60's and early 70's, and Prince and his progeny (D'Angelo, Maxwell, etc.).
		Shuggie Otis is just one of the many lost artists who has, after many years hiding under the water, risen to the top and shown himself again.
	www.amazon.com /Inspiration-Information-Shuggie-Otis/dp/B000059TLS (1364 words)

	Shuggie Otis : Inspiration Information - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ignored upon its release in 1974 and celebrated upon its reissue in 2001, Shuggie Otis' fourth and last album Inspiration Information exists out of time -- a record that was of its time, but didn't belong of it; a record that was idiosyncratic but not necessarily visionary.
		Yet no matter what Luaka Bop's grand poobah David Byrne claims on the sticker -- he says Shuggie's "trippy R&B jams are equal to Marvin's and Curtis', but somehow more contemporary sounding...closer to D'Angelo meets DJ Shadow" -- this isn't revolutionary.
		Otis crafted all of this essentially alone, playing each instrument himself, and it's quite clearly a reflection of his inner psyche, and no matter how much it floats and skates upon its own sound, it's a welcoming, inviting sound.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,142487,00.html (492 words)

	HIGH BIAS -- May 27, 2001 -- Alejandro Escovedo, Shuggie Otis, David Andrews, The Continental Drifters, Fireking, Gore ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shuggie Otis was only 22 years old when he released Inspiration Information in 1974, but he'd already had many years in the music bidness.
		The son of R&B bandleader Johnny Otis ("Willie and the Hand Jive"), Shuggie was best known as a young blues guitar prodigy, but by the time of his third album he'd evolved considerably.
		At first listen this is a typical early 70s, slightly psychedelic soul record, with wah-wah guitars, shimmering Rhodes piano and languid grooves, but further listens reveal that it's a bit more distinct than that.
	www.highbias.com /archives/20010527_main.html (277 words)

	Shuggie Otis: Inspiration Information ---Ink Blot Magazine
		When Johnnie Otis' song "Country Girl" hit #29 on the R&B charts in 1965, not too many people knew that the guitar solo was played by Johnnie Taylor Jr., known as Shuggie - and it's certain that not too many people knew that he was only 12 years old.
		One of music's most mysterious figures, Shuggie Otis' talent was certainly evident enough in the early '70s: The Rolling Stones tried (unsuccessfully) to recruit him into Mick Taylor's position, and Al Kooper helped him release four albums through Columbia, of which 1975's Inspiration Information was the fourth.
		It disappeared without a trace, but Shuggie got something of a break when George and Louis Johnson fell in love with one of his earlier songs, "Strawberry Letter 23," and had a huge monster Quincy Jones-produced single with it in 1977.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Shuggie_Otis_Inspiration_Information.htm (627 words)

	Inspiration Information - Shuggie Otis - Pandora Internet Radio
		Ignored upon its release in 1974 and celebrated upon its reissue in 2001, Shuggie Otis' fourth and last album Inspiration Information exists out of time -- a record that was of its time, but didn't belong of it; a record that was idiosyncratic but not necessarily visionary.
		Yet no matter what Luaka Bop's grand poobah David Byrne claims on the sticker -- he says Shuggie's "trippy RandB jams are equal to Marvin's and Curtis', but somehow more contemporary sounding...closer to D'Angelo meets DJ Shadow" -- this isn't revolutionary.
		Otis crafted all of this essentially alone, playing each instrument himself, and it's quite clearly a reflection of his inner psyche, and no matter how much it floats and skates upon its own sound, it's a welcoming, inviting sound.
	www.pandora.com /music/album/6b586d9d699800e5 (451 words)

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