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After a couple of smoldering Chicago blues numbers, the band disappeared, re-emerging to burn a hole through the Sly Stone-tinged deep cut "Ice Cold Daydream," stretching the two-minute single to over 10 glorious minutes, with Otis' guitar weeping buckets of ear-splitting feedback as he sipped calmly on a tallboy. And that was it. Thank you, Nashville, round of applause, and house lights. But where was "Strawberry Letter 23," Otis' signature cut and a strong contender for best pop song of the '70s?

Maybe Otis is tired of being defined by it, or maybe it was dropped from the program when dude stopped the show with his camcorder. Either way, we got a serious serving of soul from one of the all-time greats, and we're not going to kvetch about that. Edit Close. Photo: Angelina Castillo. Like what you read? Click here to make a contribution to the Scene and support local journalism! In Print. I wanted to record him. Unfortunately, he was already signed, but fortunately to Epic Records, headed by my friend, blues aficionado Larry Cohn.

It was an easy task to "borrow" Shuggie for this record. We met at my house that night and sat around listening to records and getting to know each other. I played a lot of records that night, but two stuck out. One of them was an out of print Swan Silvertones gospel album and the other was an old Little Buster single.

Shuggie loved the Silvertones, and we eventually listened to all their albums later on. Because of this, we decided to do a gospel-oriented cut on the album, hence 'Bury My Body'. I also asked Hilda Hams and Albertine Robinson to get some of their friends and come down to the studio. The album is subdivided into "The Songs' and "The Blues".

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