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Today's Assorted Recordings - Blues, R&B, Soul & Gospel Volume 29 (1954-2021) kicks off with Champion Jack Dupree's "Rub A Little Boogie", released on the King label in 1954, recorded in NYC November 30, 1953, with Jack accompanied by Papa Lightfoot on washboard, Milton Batiste on trumpet, Nat Perilliat on sax, Edwin Maire on guitar, and Charles Connor on drums. Hot on the heels of Champion Jack are: Lonnie Youngblood, Classie Ballou, Drifting Charles, Ike & Tina Turner, The O'Jays, Guy Davis, Larry Williams, The Mighty Hannibal, The Clovers, and other Blues/R&B greats. 

And our Soul Party continues with Volume 54 - "Living For The City", with tracks from Stevie Wonder, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, Maceo Parker, and a few other soul legends.

"Albums That Deserve Another Listen" today presents Otis Spann - Sweet Giant Of The Blues (1969)

When Otis Spann's "Sweet Giant Of The Blues" was released early in 1970 it was not particularly well received by the international blues aficionados. Otis Spann's name was so heavily associated with Muddy Waters and the Chicago Blues, and any wanderings off that well-trodden path were, at that time, frowned upon. And here we had Muddy's greatest piano player recording with a bunch of hip young whites led by the Wrecking Crew's Louie Shelton, who had previously worked with The Monkees and Nancy Sinatra. Nonetheless, I loved it, from first track to last, and exactly for the reasons most hard-core blues fans dismissed it. It was different, it was fresh, it broke out of that tired old mould the various members of the Muddy Waters blues bands followed when they made their solo albums. But most of all it's a thoroughly enjoyable, well recorded album. It's my favorite Otis Spann LP, and it definitely deserves another listen.

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