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13/04/2021

PRESTON LOVE feat SHUGGIE OTIS OMAHA BAR-B-Q




KENT RECORDS 1969                                  KST 540 







In the early 1960s Love worked with Ray Charles in California and 

Aretha Franklin, eventually becoming Motown's West Coast house

 bandleader with whom he played & toured with The Four Tops, 

The Temptations, Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight and others.

 Love also recorded with Nichelle Nichols, Janis Joplin, Frank Zappa

 (Freak Out), Shuggie Otis, T-Bone Walker, Charles Brown, Ruth Brown,

 and many others. Love also appears in the Clint Eastwood film, 


Play Misty For Me with the Johnny Otis band.










On front cover and labels "featuring Shuggie Otis on Guitar" 

is mentioned. Spine denotes just "Preston Love's Omaha Bar-B-Q". 


Inside cover shows Preston Love and Shuggie Otis. 











credits:







Alto Saxophone, Flute – Preston Love


Arranged By – Johnny Otis, Maxwell Davis


Engineer – Gordon Calcote, John Cevetello


Guitar, Electric Bass – Shuggie Otis


Piano, Vibraphone – Johnny Otis


Producer – Johnny Otis


Tenor Saxophone – Clifford Solomon


Written-By – S. Kelso* (tracks: A3), J. Otis*, M. Davis* (tracks: A2, A4),


 P. Love* (tracks: A3), S. Otis* (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B4)





tracks list:








A1 Chicken Gumbo 2:00


A2 Chili Mac 3:35


A3 Cream Dream 3:00


A4 Neck Bones 2:20


A5 Cool Ade 2:00


B1 Omaha Bar-B-Q 2:30


B2 Hot Cakes And Sorghum 3:35


B3 Shuggie's Chitlin Blues 5:05


B4 Pot Likker 2:22