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Otis Spann
Blues of Otis Spann/Cracked Spanner Head
Genre: Blues

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Rock Me Mama - Otis Spann, Crudup
2. I Came from Clarksdale
3. Keep Your Hand Out of My Pocket
4. Spann's Boogie
5. Sarah Street
6. The Blues Don't Like Nobody
7. Meet Me in the Bottom
8. Lost Sheep in the Fold
9. I Got a Feeling
10. Jangleboogie
11. T.99
12. Natural Days
Track Listings (14) - Disc #2
1. Crack Your Head
2. Iced Nehi
3. Wagon Wheel - Otis Spann, Crudup
4. No Sense in Worrying
5. Dollar Twenty Five
6. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
7. Lucky So and So
8. Sometimes I Wonder
9. Mr. Highway Man
10. What Will Become of Me
11. Pretty Girls Everywhere [*] - Otis Spann, Church
12. Country Boy [*] - Otis Spann, Waters, Muddy
13. My Home in the Delta [*] - Otis Spann,
14. You're Gonna Need My Help [*] - Otis Spann, Morganfield

Two sixties albums, both recorded in London for the Decca and Deram labels by Muddy Waters' pianist Otis Spann. Features a range of top British Blues players including Muddy himself on Cracked Spanner Head.

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All Artists: Otis Spann
Title: Blues of Otis Spann/Cracked Spanner Head
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Label: Bgo
Release Date: 7/25/2005
Album Type: Import, Original recording remastered
Genre: Blues
Styles: Chicago Blues, Electric Blues, Piano Blues
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 5017261206688

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Let the buyer beware

Mad bin Tod | Ireland, TX USA | 11/04/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This two cd set is actually two versions of the same album. The original one, The Blues of Otis Spann, with Muddy Waters on guitar, is a very stripped down, minimal, rough-hewn gem. Not as good as Otis Spann is the Blues, or Biggest thing since Colossus (or his work on Buddy Guys' A Man and the Blues - which is reallly astounding), it's still pretty good. Cracked Spanner Head is a remix of the Blues album with a lot of reverb, etc. added. It is not an improvement. HOWEVER, Crack Spanner includes 4 extra tracks, three of which were from the original BLues session. Why they didn't just add these to The BLues of Otis Spann and release what would have been a great single cd, is beyond me."