Otis Clay Truth Is (Putting Love Back into The Music) Echo Records Otis Clay was born February 11th, 1942. He sang in church and became a gospel singer. After moving from Mississippi to Chicago he was a member of the Sensational Nightingales. Clay also had a contract with One-derful! a record label, that wanted him […]
Otis Clay and Johnny Rawls Soul Brothers Catfood Records Soul Brothers Otis Clay and Johnny Rawls are quite a pair. Otis Clay has recorded for Cotillion, Hi-Records, Bullseye, Blind Pig, and the Echo record imprints. He is a 2013 Blues Hall of Fame inductee. Rawls was O.V. Wright’s musical director and guitarist and his last […]
Dave Specter sets out to deliver a “Message in Blue” on his new CD, and the message is that he can write and deliver great instrumentals in a variety of blues moods. Here, he delivers songs that are defined by their titles: “New West Side Stroll,” “Chicago Style,” “Funkified Outer Space,” “The Spectifyin’ Samba,” “Jefferson […]