Good Morning Mr Blues [Import]

Otis Spann | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 15, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Apo
• ASIN: B000001PG0
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,498 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Good Morning Mr. Blues

2. Love, Love, Love

3. Riverside Blues

4. Must Have Been the Devil

5. Jelly Roll Baker

6. Trouble in Mind

7. Worried Life Blues

8. T.B. Blues

9. Spann's Boogie

10. Don't You Know

11. Goin' Down Slow

12. The Skys Are Blue

13. Keep Your Hands Out of My Pocket

14. Boots and Shoes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Low Down and Rolling, May 11, 2000

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possum willie (Budapest) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Good Morning Mr Blues (Audio CD)

I first heard Otis Spann in person when I was 13 and it changed my life. The light classics and hymms that "Miss May", my piano teacher, was making me practice and that my mom requested for her friends, had to go. Instead, I started every day after school working on a steady bass with a roaming, riffng right hand... and it's stood me in good stead (although Mom and Miss May couldn't understand why I gave up "pretty" music). This CD is Spann at his best, gravel-voiced and blues-savant piano playing, not polished-slick but excellent techique and so...oo..oo soulful. When he was playing with Mr. Morganfield, Otis Spann was oftern drowned out by electric instruments but not here. You cannot compare his fine solo work to garden-variety blues players. Once you hear even a bar or two, it moves you and you know Mr. Spann is working in his inimitable style. This album along with some good whiskey can get you through all sorts of heart aches, bad love affairs, and brushes with fate. You can actually get down and wallow in it and yet, Otis Spann has the capacity to make one feel good too. If you have one blues singer/piano player CD, this could be it. I've kept it by my side in one form or another since 1972 and covered a lot of ground...once you buy it, you won't leave home without it.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A jewel among all piano blues recordings, February 22, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Good Morning Mr Blues (Audio CD)

Otis Spann was arguably one of the truly great piano blues players in history. He is mostly known for his collaboration in Muddy Water's band ("Chicago blues"). This recording documents his outstanding abilities as a solo piano artist and singer. The recording was made in a studio in Denmark using high quality audio equipment, so despite its age (over 40 years) the sound quality is excellent (which, unfortunately, can not be said about many of the other Otis Spann records). Otis Span plays the piano in a very beautiful way. His left hand is on par with the right hand leading to a very rhythmic and powerful sound which impresses not only by clarity and technical perfection, but also by a great dynamic range. And all of this without the electronic amplifying equipment which is so popular today!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just the man and his piano, December 20, 2005

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some guy (Newport, OR USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Good Morning Mr Blues (Audio CD)

If you're interested in hearing just Spann's incredible piano playing and vocals instead of the full "chicago style" blues band, this is an album to treasure. The recording quality is excellent (recorded in Denmark and remastered; great piano sound) and the supporting musicians (on a few tracks) make so little impact in relation to Otis that it is essentially a solo album. This is a new favorite blues piano album for me, and one that I will not tire of listening to. Really, really strong- check it out.