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Etta James
« on: January 20, 2012, 11:20:01 am »
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Re: Etta James
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2012, 11:22:44 am »
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Re: Etta James
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2012, 01:27:42 pm »
Never to be forgotten.... 

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Re: Etta James
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2012, 01:38:54 pm »
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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2012, 01:51:29 pm »
James was "discovered" by Johnny Otis, who also passed away earlier this week. 
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Re: Etta James
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2012, 02:16:02 pm »
A few years back, I was spending a quiet saturday evening at home when I stumbled across a PBS re-broadcasted performance by Etta James.  I called my wife over and we spent a nice evening listening to Etta James put her personal touch on R&B standards.  It was a great show, even on TV.

She was a one of a kind performer. 
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Re: Etta James
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2012, 03:49:40 pm »
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Re: Etta James
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2012, 05:41:05 pm »
Quote from: HudsonHawk on January 20, 2012, 01:51:29 pm
James was "discovered" by Johnny Otis, who also passed away earlier this week. 

Which is kind of weird to me, because I spent time just prior to hearing of Johnny Otis' death thinking about Shuggie, "Strawberry Letter 23", what a good guitarist I thought he was, how he married one of the GTOs, wondering what had become of him.
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Re: Etta James
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2012, 09:02:39 pm »
Zappa was a big Johnny Otis guy and Shuggie Otis too. My personal Johnny Otis fave is an obscure party record known as the Johnny Otis Show: Snatch and the Poontangs. Very blue, and funny as fucking shit. Shuggie plays on it and some cat on vocals who I can remember. I know Nick Cave is/was a fan too because his version of Stagger Lee is closest to Snatch and crew's version.

Shuggie plays the blues in his dad's band.

Etta was one of a kind. RIP to both of them.
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Re: Etta James
« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2012, 10:07:52 pm »
Quote from: Dark Star on January 20, 2012, 05:41:05 pm
Which is kind of weird to me, because I spent time just prior to hearing of Johnny Otis' death thinking about Shuggie, "Strawberry Letter 23", what a good guitarist I thought he was, how he married one of the GTOs, wondering what had become of him.

Heard Strawberry Letter 23 thousands of times. I'm an old Brothers Johnson fan and had always assumed they had written it. Until now, I had not known it was a Shug composition, nor heard his version. Thanks maign.
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Re: Etta James
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2012, 01:17:16 am »
Quote from: Sphinx Drummond on January 20, 2012, 10:07:52 pm
Heard Strawberry Letter 23 thousands of times. I'm an old Brothers Johnson fan and had always assumed they had written it. Until now, I had not known it was a Shug composition, nor heard his version. Thanks maign.

I know you've already found it, but I couldn't help posting the URL here.

Strawberry Letter 23

I always dug the Bros. Johnson remake, but having heard Shuggie's version first, and having purchased the Freedom Flight LP several years before the Bros. version, I was probably inclined to like Shuggie's version best.  Plus, to me, Shuggie's comes off more as a sort of hippie daydream than an R & B dance song, which I think it should be.

I like(d) Shuggie a lot, and not only for this.  He did one of those Al Kooper Sessions LPs in 1970 - when he was fucking 15 - and he was just excellent.

Dude can play, but he is apparently pretty reclusive.  The Zappa thing would explain the GTOs connection, I gather.
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Re: Etta James
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2012, 10:27:54 am »
Great singer and beautful lady. R.I.P
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