Shuggie Otis - Freedom Flight

Shuggie Otis - Freedom FlightRE PRESSED ON PURPLE VINYL. Well before Shuggie Otis cut his debut album, musicianship and performance had long been a part of his life. The son of rhythm and blues legend Johnny Otis, Shuggie learned to play guitar as early as the age of two, and performed professionally with his father's band at eleven. Throughout his long and illustrious career he'd performed on records for the likes of Frank Zappa, Al Kooper, Etta James, and George Duke, to name a

“Devastations” sees Hung further hone and actualise a sound that is entirely his own

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Together the two made these classic sides which still stand as genre defining forty years on

as well as three previously unreleased studio recordings and one b-side gem

'South Atlantic Blues

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"Geek Stink Breath"

there's an obvious affinity with much of the early Flying Nun output

and soon two

The B-side 'Jump in my Boat' is an entirely previously unreleased studio track from the band from 1968

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