Future Classic: Shuggie Otis “Wings Of Love”

Wow! Now this is some great news right here. The mighty Shuggie Otis is back and we couldn’t be happier to hear that some of his new music is finally surfacing. In fact, it has been 40 years since any new music has been released by the enigmatic and elusive genius of Psychedelic Soul. As the The Roots’ Questlove, said very well: “His music is so potent that it only blossomed 30 years after it was first released.”

INSPIRATION INFORMATION / WINGS OF LOVE features the original Inspiration Information album alongside four previously-unreleased bonus tracks on disc one, while the second CD, titled WINGS OF LOVE, is an unreleased follow-up album which includes 14 unreleased live and studio tracks recorded by Shuggie between 1975 and 2000. Also, the people at Sony have done a really good job at putting together a few clips of Shuggie explaining his new release and some of his past experiences.

We talked about an unreleased track called “Trying to Get Close To you” a little while back and about how excited we were at the rumours of this great new material about to be release after 40 years. But now the time has come and we finally bought our copy and had our first listen to the record and it is just outstanding. Just like the great documentary “Searching for Sugar man” it is so great to see an artist who was never truly understood / enjoyed by the masses finally get his second chance.

We can’t stress enough how much you need to buy this record!

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TRACKS
Disc 1
1 Inspiration Information
2 Island Letter
3 Sparkle City
4 Aht Uh Mi Hed
5 Happy House
6 Rainy Day
7 XL-30
8 Pling!
9 Not Available
10 Miss Pretty
11 Magic
12 Things We Like To Do
13 Castle Top Jam

Disc 2
1 Intro
2 Special
3 Give Me Something Good
4 Tryin’ To Get Close To You
5 Walkin’ Down The Country
6 Doin’ What’s Right
7 Wings Of Love
8 Give Me A Chance
9 Don’t You Run Away
10 Fireball of Love
11 Fawn
12 If You’d Be Mine
13 Black Belt Sheriff
14 Destination You!

Lexis

Montreal-based DJ and the founder MusicIsMySanctuary.com (2007) and 24 Hours of Vinyl (2011).