Guitar in Middle Blue (@ropeadope) / Senior Manager, Curation and Editorial, at @tidal / “Celebratory, instantly catchy themes” - Rolling Stone
Nov 30, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Reclusive soul legend Shuggie Otis is 67 today. Beyond his cult-classic album Inspiration Information, he played on Frank Zappa’s “Peaches en Regalia”; wrote “Strawberry Letter 23”; and famously turned down an offer to join the Rolling Stones. A thread of tracks to know.
1974’s Inspiration Information is a once-in-a-lifetime album. Joyous and funky and sad and just begging to be sampled. Parts almost sound like a Dilla beat tape. Here’s the invigorating title track.