![Listen to Long Distance Call (feat. Otis Spann, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Donald "Duck" Dunn & Sam Lay) [Live At Super Cosmic Jamboree, 1969] by Muddy Waters, see lyrics, music video & more!](/mkimage/image/thumb/Music123/v4/75/56/2d/75562d7c-350f-6838-eac0-761abcea8369/06UMGIM15484.rgb.jpg/375x375bb.webp "Listen to Long Distance Call (feat. Otis Spann, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Donald \"Duck\" Dunn & Sam Lay) [Live At Super Cosmic Jamboree, 1969] by Muddy Waters, see lyrics, music video & more!")
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![Listen to Walking the Blues (feat. St. Louis Jimmy & Robert Lockwood, Jr.) [1985 Reissue] by Otis Spann](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music126/v4/27/f0/ce/27f0ce0c-3dd0-9feb-dd53-ed24139099e2/259.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Walking the Blues (feat. St. Louis Jimmy & Robert Lockwood, Jr.) [1985 Reissue] by Otis Spann")
About Otis Spann
Hometown
Jackson, MS, United States
Born
March 21, 1930
Genre
Blues
A core member of Muddy Waters' legendary bands of the 1950s and 1960s, pianist, vocalist, composer, Otis Spann is widely considered the standard bearer for postwar blues pianists. Spann played on most of Waters' classic Chess sides between 1953 and 1969. He offered a barnstorming approach to boogie woogie and stride in developing the Chicago blues piano style. His own debut, 1960's Otis Spann Is the Blues, also featured the guitar and vocals of Robert Lockwood, Jr. The Blues Of Otis Spann appeared in 1964 and featured Waters under a psuedonymn. Spann cut well received sides for Bluesway -- 1966's The Blues Is Where It's At and 1968's The Bottom of the Blues. In 1969, he released five albums, among them Cryin' Time for Vanguard, The Biggest Thing Since Colossus for Blue Horizon, and Super Black Blues with T-Bone Walker and Big Joe Turner. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980.
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