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Shuggie Otis

Date: 1974
Release: Luaka Bop #50473
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“Inspiration Information is a record for people that have heard a lot of music, maybe too much, and are looking for a new musical romance.”

–Steven Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Imagine how it must have felt. Three years of your life spent obsessively working your ideas out, stretching and revising and perfecting them until finally you’re ready to set them down. In the studio you experience the magic of complete artistic control, handling almost all of the instrumentation, production and arrangements, fully realizing every bit of your uniquely inspired musical vision. It comes out exactly like it sounded in your head. Your record hits the streets–an album of nine songs–and you think to yourself that one of them might even be a hit. Then you wait…and wait…and nothing happens. Your record label drops you, and you wake up to find that your once promising musical career is dead at the age of 21.

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