“Here Comes SHUGGIE OTIS” psych soul LP EPIC ’71 PROMO NICE

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Artists:  SHUGGIE OTIS

Title:   “Here Comes Shuggie Otis”

Label:   EPIC ~ BN 26511.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Yellow label with black text.  

Year: 1971.

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is NM/ EXCELLENT.  Disc has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  Side 2 has light paper scuffing.  Labels are clean and pristine.         

JACKET:   Jacket is nice VG++.  Front artwork is clean and bright, with some light ring wear.  Reverse has promotional stamp mark at upper right; otherwise clean.  Nice seams and spine.  Small ding at center of bottom seam.  Overall a very nice jacket to accompany the disc.    

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Oxford Gray
• Jennie Lee
• Bootie Cooler
• Knowing (That You Want Him)
• Funky Thithee  

Side Two:

• Shuggie’s Boogie
• Hurricane
• Gospel Groove
• Baby, I Needed You
• The Hawks

Review:

“1971's Here Comes Shuggie Otis was the debut album by the guitarist and songwriter, issued by Columbia, when Shuggie was only 18.  Produced and arranged by his father, R&B legend Johnny Otis, the set features nine original cuts co-written by the pair, and in some cases others, and one written by Johnny with Dan Aldrich.  The album is evenly divided between vocal tunes and instrumentals.  The cast for these sessions included Johnny, Wilton Felder, Stix Hooper, bassist Al McKibbon, Preston Love, Jackie Kelso, Plas Johnson, and a string section.  

"Oxford Gray," the album's opener, is an instrumental written by Johnny, Shuggie, Felder, and Hooper.  Unlike anything that ever came before it, it's a baroque blues tune that features Shuggie playing both electric and acoustic bottleneck slide, a harpsichord, strings, and a groovy little backbeat that walks the edge of blues and funk.  It feels like a suite because of its many composed sections, but Shuggie's guitar is pure improvisational poetry.  This is followed by the beautiful, psychedelic pop of "Jennie Lee."  Shuggie's vocals weren't quite there, and were still somewhat tentative, but his gorgeous, Albert King-inflected guitar solo is right in the pocket, and stands in wonderful contrast to his acoustic string in the verses.  The horns are restrained and regal, and the textural palette of the cut is lush and spacious.  There is plenty of rootsy playing here too, such as on "Bootie Cooler," a Stax-styled blues groove, and the name-dropping shimmy and shake of "Shuggie's Boogie," the wig-tightening funk of "Hurricane," and the reverentially gritty "Gospel Groove."  It closes with a modern soul rocker called "Baby I Needed You," with a killer hook in the refrain even if Shuggie's vocal doesn't quite pull it all off.  Here Comes Shuggie Otis stands the test of time over 30 years later, and stands as a hallmark of songwriting, improvisation, and production acumen.”

(review courtesy Thom Jurek, allmusic.com)

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