Biography

Otis Spann is considered one of blues music's greatest piano players. His career began after he settled in Chicago in the late 1940s; by the '50s he had become an ace session man for the legendary Chess label, appearing on sides by Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, and, most memorably, the great Muddy Waters. Spann would prove a key influence on the British blues boom of the 1960s, and it was through that world that he would garner his highest profile as a solo artist, even cutting an album with the Peter Green-led version of Fleetwood Mac, 1969's THE BIGGEST THING SINCE COLOSSUS. Spann died of cancer in 1970 at the age of 40.

Top Tracks

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• Blues For Hippies

• Boots And Shoes

• Chicago Blues

• Crack Your Head

• Everything Gonna Be Alright

• Feelin' Good

• Great Northern Stomp

• Home To Mississippi

• Hungry Country Girl

• I'm Ready

• Kansas City

• Live The Life I Love

• Lost Sheep In The Fold

• Love, Love, Love

• Must Have Been The Devil

• My Home In The Delta

• Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do (party Blues)

• Nobody Knows My Troubles

• One Room Country Shack

• Otis In The Dark

• Rock Me Mama

• S.p. Blues

• Spann Blues

• Spann's Stomp

• The Blues Don't Like Nobody

• The Hard Way

• Tin Pan Alley

• Trouble In Mind

• Twisted Snake

• Wagon Wheel

• What's On Your Worried Mind?

• Worried Life Blues

Discography

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• Last Call: Live at Boston Tea Party, April 2, 1970

  Mr. Cat Music / Mr Cat

  2000

• Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do

  Charly Records

  1983

• Walking the Blues

  Candid

  1972

• Cryin' Time

  Vanguard

  1970

• Sweet Giant of the Blues

  Blues Time

  1970

• The Blues Never Die!

  Prestige/Original Blues Classics

  1969

• The Biggest Thing Since Colossus

  Sony Music Distribution

  1969

• Cracked Spanner Head

  Decca

  1969

• The Blues Is Where It's At

  Beat Goes On

  1967

• Nobody Knows My Trouble

  1967

• The Blues of Otis Spann

  Decca

  1964

• Otis Spann Is the Blues

  Candid

  1960