For decades, Shuggie Otis has enjoyed cult hero status; his 1974 third album, Inspiration Information, which he produced, arranged, sang and played guitar, bass, drums and keyboards on, is hailed a ...

Not many guitar players have accomplished before age 18 what Shuggie Otis, born in 1953, was able to do. But on the flip side, very few virtuosos have done less with their gifts after age 21. The son ...

For his first New York show in ages, it was not an auspicious start for Shuggie Otis. Taking the Highline Ballroom stage in a long coat and scarf, his Gibson 335 was silent. A roadie came out, tried ...

Psychedelic soul man Shuggie Otis was once thought of as the heir apparent to Jimi Hendrix, and in a new interview, he recalls meeting the surprisingly introverted guitar hero at an in-store autograph ...

Singer, songwriter and multi- instrumentalist Shuggie Otis might not have been born holding a guitar but he probably picked his first one up soon thereafter. He did grow up playing guitar in bands led ...

When an artist vanishes for 40 years, rumors are going to spread, none of them good. So it was with Shuggie Otis. Nearly four decades passed after the release of his third album, the psychedelic soul ...

The critically-acclaimed funk-soul guitar virtuouso, sampled by the likes of Kanye West and Outkast, brings his unlikely comeback hopes to midtown Manhattan and delivers. By Mitch Myers For some music ...

Albany >> Two weeks after Johnny Otis, “The Godfather of Rhythm and Blues,” was dropped from Epic Records roster in 1974, they called him and dropped the other shoe. “We’re letting (your son) Shuggie ...

MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons STRAWBERRY FIELD How to play “Shuggie,” part 1 Andy Timmons teaches a song from his album, ...

OTIS ELEVATED In the mid- ’70s, psychedelic soul man Shuggie Otis released three little heard albums, wrote ”Strawberry Letter 23” (later a hit for the Brothers Johnson), nixed a gig as Mick Taylor’s ...

Shuggie Otis' show at the El Rey Theater did not start off well: He plugged in, told his six-piece band he was ready to play in B flat, then, fewer than four bars into the song, abruptly stopped. "If ...