Shuggie Otis - Purple download song

This is a perfect example of how fuctup the music business was...you have this guy who is an undeniable talent & music lovers don’t even know who he is & then you have say

Eazy E was fined for sampling this face.

I need to get a liquor license, a business license, some seed money and a location so I can open up a bar and place this.

I was a little girl.. When this song came out.. And it was played in my house.. All the time.. I remember on the weekend.. My parents would have company in the basement playing card.. And this song would be playing on the record player.. Didn't appericate as a kid.. Now that I am grown.. I bump this in my car all the time.. When I pull up somewhere the old timers give me 2 thumbs up.. Thank you for posting this..

May 2019 and this is my first time ever learning of Shuggie...I am feeling all of this musical masterpiece...

Sweet delivery. Man those licks are smooth, like purple icecream melting out the amp!

Don't you love it when there is a gem in your recommended videos?! :)

'oh yes, he was 15 at the time'...

I've seen him live 3 times in the past 5 months...it's changed my life, I swear!! I've loved him since 1970...and will go to see him perform live...every chance I get!! I urge everyone else to do the same thing...he is after all...a living legend!! :O)

My top three albums: Electric Ladyland, B.B.King-LA Midnight and Freedom Flight. Period.

thank you Dallas buyers club,,, finally I find it

You hear B.B King influence in his playing style.

I got turned on to Shuggie at 17 while ditching high school, my boyfriend had a ton of great vinyl it was 1971. I never went back to school. Perfect blues, fluid. ❤me some Shuggie

If you like cult artists, then I highly recommend Bronx child prodigy and genius, singer/songwriter Laura Nyro, who recorded her first LP in 1966 aged 18. She performed at Monterey Pop in 1967 with Hendrix etc. Electric Ladyland by Hendrix and  Nyro's 2nd LP 'Eli and the Thirteenth Confession' (1968) are probably the most sublime musical achievements in rock. Eli is universally considered by critics as a masterpiece, and they rate her 3rd LP New York Tendaberry as even better. Eli is piano based, musically very complex, with very soulful singing. All the musicians are jazzmen. It is nothing like you have ever heard and will take a few listens to attune. Many artists had massive hits with Nyro songs, especially the 5th Dimension, such as Stoned Soul Picnic and Wedding Bell Blues. She is covered to this day and sampled by rappers. In the music industry she is considered one of its greatest ever talents, is loved by everyone, and her influence is vast. Some of her most famous fans are Miles Davis, Prince, Dylan, Alice Cooper, Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren.

I hear Prince secretly idolized Shuggie Otis.  You can hear the influence when Prince plays.

Not to overstate  the obvious but, It's amazing the level of musicality he had at such a young age. I think he was more like 17,18 here?  He really could play though.

Smoke somthin to this.......................

not a single note wasted. pure inspiration.