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Boasting fellow Chicago blues dynamo James Cotton on both harmonica and lead vocals, The Blues Never Die! is one of Otis Spann's most inspired albums. When this session was recorded for Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary in 1964, Spann was still best known for playing acoustic piano in Muddy Waters' band. But The Blues Never Die! (which Fantasy reissued on CD in 1990 on its Original Blues Classics imprint) shows that he was as great a leader as he was a sideman. From Willie Dixon's "I'm Ready" (a Chess gem Spann had played numerous times with Waters) and Elmore James' "Dust My Broom" to Cotton's spirited "Feelin' Good" and Spann's dark-humored "Must Have Been the Devil," Spann and Cotton enjoy a very strong rapport on this consistently rewarding date. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
The Blues Never Die!
10/01/1969 | Obc
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The Blues Never Die! Track Listing
Credits of The Blues Never Die!
- James Madison
- Guitar, ?
- Muddy Waters
- Guitar
- Milton Rector
- Bass, ?, Bass (Electric)
- Don Schlitten
- Design
- Otis Spann
- Piano, Vocals, Main Performer
- Pete Welding
- Liner Notes
- Dirty Rivers
- Guitar
- Samuel Charters
- Producer
- Phil DeLancie
- Digital Remastering
- S.P. Leary
- Drums, ?
- James Cotton
- Harmonica, Vocals, ?
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