Otis Spann

Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 or 1930 – April 24, 1970) was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist.
Sources differ over Spann's early years. Some state that he was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1930,but researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc concluded on the basis of census records and other official information that he was born in 1924 in Belzoni, Mississippi.
Spann's father was, according to some sources, a pianist called Friday Ford. His mother, Josephine Erby, was a guitarist who had worked with Memphis Minnie and Bessie Smith, and his stepfather, Frank Houston Spann, was a preacher and musician. One of five children, Spann began playing the piano at the age of seven, with some instruction from Friday Ford, Frank Spann, and Little Brother Montgomery.
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==Links to Peel==
Peel had Otis Spann do a session for his Night Ride show in 1969. He is known for his work with Muddy Waters and other noted blues artists as well as for his solo work. The show's studio guests also have blues connections; blues historian Paul Oliver, whose book The Story Of The Blues had just been published, and Mike Cooper, who was known at the time as a country blues revivalist, but developed his own style and did eight sessions for Peel between 1968 and 1975.
==Sessions==
1. Recorded: 1969-07-01. First Broadcast: 02 July 1969
*Lucille / I'm Not Going To Sell You My Thing / Back Alley Blues
==Other Shows Played==
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*14 May 1969: Great Northern Song
;1970
*31 January 1970 (& Fleetwood Mac): Talk With You Right (LP - Blues Jam At Chess) Blue Horizon 
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists