Shuggie Otis

This impressive album was all but ignored when it released in 1974. Thanks to 2001 reissue, however, a whole new generation of music lovers are discovering Otis's dreamy funk and forward-thinking compositions. Sweet love songs mingle with gentle extended jams, all wrapped up in Shuggie's pre-Prince falsetto.

Guitar prodigy Shuggie Otis cut his gap teeth in the Sixties, in his legendary dad's R&B-soul
revue, the Johnny Otis Show. Recording his first album in his teens, he played with
everybody from T-Bone Walker to Frank Zappa to Bob Dylan; in the mid-Seventies, he was
even invited to replace Mick Taylor in the Rolling Stones. Otis' smooth, trippy soul-funk
opus, Inspiration Information -- first released in 1974, now remastered and reissu... More >