Otis Spann, "Worried Life Blues".
The trouble with Otis Spann is that he will never ever fit into a tweet.
Spann represents the late flowering of Chicago style. He played behind the great Muddy for several years into the '50s. He had a lovely voice, and was a great arranger and bandleader, and his piano is one of those "could recognize it anywhere" things.
Both his bosses and his sidemen trusted him implicitly, and have sung his praises in a thousand different blues revival interviews.
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