Down to Earth

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Album: Down to Earth: The Bluesway Recordings
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Popcorn Man
2)	Brand New House
3)	Chicago Blues
4)	Steel Mill Blues
5)	Down on Sarah Street
6)	T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
7)	Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do (Party Blues)
8)	My Home Is in the Delta
9)	Spann Blues
10)	Heart Loaded With Trouble
11)	Diving Duck
12)	Shimmy Baby
13)	Look Like Twins
14)	I'm a Fool
15)	My Man
16)	Down to Earth
17)	Nobody Knows
18)	Doctor Blues

Album: Down to Earth: The Bluesway Recordings
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Popcorn Man
2)	Brand New House
3)	Chicago Blues
4)	Steel Mill Blues
5)	Down on Sarah Street
6)	T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
7)	Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do (Party Blues)
8)	My Home Is in the Delta
9)	Spann Blues
10)	Heart Loaded With Trouble
11)	Diving Duck
12)	Shimmy Baby
13)	Look Like Twins
14)	I'm a Fool
15)	My Man
16)	Down to Earth
17)	Nobody Knows
18)	Doctor Blues

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Otis Spann (vocals, piano); Lucille Spann (vocals); Muddy Waters (guitar).
Recorded live in New York in 1966 and 1967. Includes liner notes by Bill Dahl.
Originally released as 2 separate LPs.
Both of the great Chicago pianist's albums for ABC-BluesWay, characterized with rippling piano and ruminative vocals. Backed in style by his mates in the Muddy Waters band (including the man himself), Spann responds to a studio full of people on "Popcorn Man," "Steel Mill Blues," and "Nobody Knows Chicago like I Do." Spann's 1967 encore LP united him in the studio with wife Lucille for several vocals. ~ Bill Dahl

Professional Reviews

Down Beat (8/95, p.55) - 4.5 Stars - Very Good/Excellent - "...his smooth but tense singing style and his exuberance on the 88 keys produced the precise shadings of emotion vital to first-rate Chicago blues..."

Musician (9/95, p.90) - "...Spann gave Muddy [Waters]'s Delta blues the sound of the city. His solo career was ill-fated...but as this reissue of his Bluesway output shows, he was a dynamic artist in his own right. The live set is a real gem..."

Sing Out! (8-10/95, p.137) - "...Spann...had the vocal power, personality and presence required of good band leaders: It's our loss that [he never]...spent much time up front..."