OTIS SPANN - Walking The Blues (Candid Reissue) WILLI WILLIAMS The highlight on the album

The highlight on the album was a pulsating techno reggae track called “Higher” that introduced a new member into the band

Now 12 years and six albums since he emerged with his streetwise and spritely

the NEA Jazz Master (2025) and multi-instrumentalist

The album was an immediate commercial and critical success in the United Kingdom

OTIS SPANN - Walking The Blues (Candid Reissue) WILLI WILLIAMS The highlight on the albumLP 180g Black Vinyl. Perhaps best known for his long association with the legendary Muddy Waters, Otis Spann is largely recognised as one of the greatest blues pianists of all time, if not the greatest. Although Spann made a name for himself in Chicago by the mid 1940s, it wasn't until 1960 that he got the opportunity to record an album of his own. The sessions Spann did with Candid Records co founder Nat Hentoff that year resulted in the legendary