Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information (Audio Only)

[@kevinthomas9710]

I just discovered Shuggie Otis and I feel ripped off at 65 yrs.

[@nuffzed2001]

he was 21 when he performed this song in 1974 😮!

[@Thachosenjaun]

It’s wild

[@ecascade]

I was blind ... in 2025 there is still hope from the 1970's. Thank you Shug!

[@CA5124]

Who here in 2021 !! Just discovered Shuggie Otis 🤗🤗 💓

[@rando348]

🙋🏾

[@billycampbell1656]

Today 😁

[@RarebitFiends]

Never too late!

[@davisarmstrong121]

Jay z put me on to the music

[@CA5124]

😁🔥🙌💓

[@rapidrhinoplumbing-monrovi3269]

I remember this stuff . They called it music!!!! Shug at his best!!!

[@kve1247]

Still here in 2024!! Anybody w/me?!💖💖💖🤩🤩

[@handsomeclem208]

And he's planning on hitting the road with his band sometime this year according to a recent interview so consider this a heads up!

[@kve1247]

@@handsomeclem208 thank u👌🏽🤩

[@avakitchen8873]

Me

[@Louise_713]

Me 🎵💕

[@markwyatt5377]

now its 2025, but still with you!😁

[@royalcan1]

Too many edibles + shopping in Savers = dancing to this in the furniture aisle ❤

[@jogerardo9558]

I don't know why I was listening to anything else in 1974 when I could have been listening to this beautiful song.

[@Vendzor]

To be fair, 1974 was full of amazing music. If you weren't listening to this, I'm sure you were wearing out all the other masterpieces released that same year.

[@Ian-nl9yd]

Absolutely titanic sound on that guitar and bass!

[@blainedunlap8571]

Meanwhile in 2024, hear this in summer 1995, helped me find the way, Thank you to all of us, from all of us.

[@keepinitreal1373]

THIS WAS MY FAVORITE JAM RIGHT HERE👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@edwardheynes3880]

Just got this album on vinyl. It is a masterpiece. The music floats, vibrates, radiates from the LP groove. It takes me to a place that I never want to come back from.

[@watisthiseven]

well said

[@kevinmalone8293]

64

[@daveparry6642]

Ed you nailed it :)

[@intisarsabree3947]

I’m jealous but well said.

[@ninety_ldn]

immediately one of my favourite songs ive ever heard

[@ericmckayrq]

AGREED and I keep having that over and over whenever I come back to it

[@Kevin-tl4zw]

discovered this today... on repeaaat

[@rprattrpratt]

I second that…

[@malcolmsabree8044]

i thought i was going crazy or my weed was laced because im literally contemplating if this is instantly the best song i ever heard ommfg

[@dexterdaniels2953]

Instant classic!!! Shuggie is too underrated prince level musicianship and then some for me!

[@btwentwo]

No bad day has ever started with this song

[@vergon6662]

Shuggie is a GROOVE GOD

[@kurtedwins5330]

I am 6 and listening to Shuggie with my dad it is so cool😋😎

[@stubie1456]

If you can’t feel that you ain’t breathin’!

[@kve1247]

Who here in 2022?…just discovered Shuggie Otis😃PHENOMENAL!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@torrinpolk2655]

Classic and timeless music!

[@willthebeast8002]

Been trying to find this song for MONTHS! The melody was driving me crazy... What sweet relief..

[@davidmccann9879]

Here Here. Just found out @work and looked it up IMMEDIATELY!!!. And I am a student of 70's funk fusion since the 90z. Ahh music. Just when U think U know! Lol

[@헛김]

0:44 You making me happier Now I am snappier While I'm with you I got to be heavier 'Cause I am happier When I make you

[@lancemartin7659]

Brings back so many memories from my teenage years playing hoops and hangin'.RIP Big Ro.

[@MegaSnippezz]

One of the greatest guitar solos of all time.

[@Sam97812]

I have been looking for this song for years and years...(couldn't remember a single word sung or anything in the title)

[@kingjulianne1]

Heard it in 1974 and never knew the title, then heard it last week on an episode of Medium...

[@tariqelazim4754]

Shuggie played all the instruments on this cut and the album really (except strings and horns). 4 years before Prince came on the scene in 78, this album had to hold us over for the one man band cats. What a natural...I still marvel at how I can hear every note so clearly. Just a great guitar player.

[@FUNKACHELI]

Allegedly , he turned down signing with Quincy Jones and if its true I can guess why ... QJ wanted some booty .

[@frankmarsh1159]

Todd Rundgren was playing most of the instruments on his albums in the early seventies. When Prince was a teenager he once tried to get back stage at a Rundgren concert to meet him.

[@lauraveney1412]

@@FUNKACHELI I can believe it so much stuff is going to come out about him when he dies.

[@tariqelazim4754]

@@frankmarsh1159 Hello it's Me...In the hall of everthing!

[@o.b.v.i.u.s]

uh... just off the top of my head, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder played everything on their recordings even earlier...Mike Oldfield... sure there were others...

[@victorsumptersumpter4515]

Heard this on UNC HD station while ubering WOW its like brother Johnson and p funk together on a groove ride

[@mooselordflanz3392]

just discovered him todayy been on a shuggiespree!

[@dianehaslam5202]

Welcome to the club, oldie but still rocken. I'm 66,,!,,,!

[@mooselordflanz3392]

+Diane Haslam right on!

[@leejoliver]

+mooselord flans Got a new album out soon apparently - first since 1974!

[@dianehaslam5202]

+leejoliver . Have to watch for it.. what a treat....

[@marcusmartin-human]

HAHAH!!! Same for me... Been listening for a few hours. His web page doesn't list any upcoming tour dates But I did sign up to his mailing list. www.shuggieotismusic.com

[@shepdotcom]

Love me some Shuggie. Wish I could see him play sometime

[@SleepyheadzMusic]

Reminds me of the golden age of rhythm and blues. Truly classy and catchy 👏 👌 🙌

[@kbrown4292]

WOW. it commands your body to move, what a treasure from the vault

[@timbushong4387]

So good...so cool. I'm 60, and just now hearing about Mr. Otis. What happened?

[@Emilie-fg6vs]

This is the best of his songs !

[@plymouthrock27]

Indeed, yes 👍

[@SeaBreeze508]

Brilliant guitar and lyrics .. just great feel good song .. Shuggie !!!!! Still got it !!

[@BesinuwaStreeter]

This dude is incredibly funky I mean damn !!! He should be well known I’m just learning about his musical style it’s 2025! Woah 😳 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@FRENCHYB2B]

Doesn’t get much better vibes than this! 👌🏻

[@ChildOfOya]

So, my sweetheart put me on to this. I had no idea he also did Strawberry Letter 23! Yes to ALL of this.

[@odedfried-gaon2880]

One sickly gifted multi-instrumentalist, just spreading some inspiration information to us all!

[@teresalmeida]

amazing vibes! listening to this song = automatic happiness

[@vernellthomas6644]

Yes indeed!!! Lost my mind when I first heard it! Ran into the poster at Tower Records!!! I miss that store so much

[@landlinesandpercolators8822]

Bought this on vinyl when it first came out, just sayin'....

[@TheMastersuperblaste]

You old 😛

[@ISVVVc628]

Me too.😀

[@landlinesandpercolators8822]

@@TheMastersuperblaste Yep -- however I did experience being young. You however will always be a dumb ass!

[@joaomarcelofadeoliveira2707]

Meu Deus Shuggie, q som é esse q vc faz, amigo!!

[@aanakhtatkaa9994]

Took me back to my teen years. It was, and still is a dancible favorite!

[@charleslee1644]

ME TO 1974 17 YEARS OLD

[@TheMacsb]

played longtime on the radio in Italy, great songs great man

[@jeffroberts_tunes]

Instant Fan when I heard this as a random Spotify playlist discovery. I knew the name but didn't know how incredibly good his music is. Besides this Funky Soul music he's one of the best Blues guitarists I've ever heard.

[@VBMSerenity]

His father was the late, great Johnny Otis, bluesman supreme!

[@p7y900s]

Awesome guitar solo starting at 2:58-blows me away-makes we want to get down!

[@Pickleslip]

Wicked tune, I just discovered this music, my fathers time had hella smooth music.

[@francissandy4404]

This beautiful song brims with felicity and feel- good...the lyrics say it all

[@chevaldechine4833]

This song is a gem

[@chaisroom6631]

October 28th 2020, first time hearing this and I LOVE IT!!!...Shuggie is the man!!!

[@aarongipson4503]

First heard it back in 1974. 😐

[@edgarkuijer5755]

Just discovered him through Dutch radio, what a great musician!

[@beverlyharris9859]

SENSATIONAL AWESOME HEAVENLY BEAUTIFUL AMAZING!!!!!

[@cinematicstudios3418]

Just watched "Den Of Thieves" this Song was featured in the Movie! LOVE IT! Shuggie Otis I love this Song! MY type of Music! You have to put a hand up for the classics!

[@Joao-de9gl]

Masterpiece of an album. Innovative yet amazing. Never heard something similar ever since

[@NYC1370]

smooth track love it

[@rhianajackson8186]

Shuggie brother man. U mix me n my shuggy oats... ❤❤whoooohhooo

[@KOSMICKEN09]

This song was released as a 45 back in the day-how the hell wasn't this a hit..oh well

[@simonespitoni3959]

Because it sounds like a song from 1994, I guess. Pure avantgarde

[@fontaholic]

Shaggie is underrated. He had no luck. Could become famous before micheal jackson and prince.

[@warmswarm]

Pixel_germany - Yeah but Shuggie is even better.

[@SunnyIlha]

Phases in & out of groove shades subtle shifts of vibes Sometimes nearly indiscernible but so delineated. Glides.

[@queunlimited4779]

"Den of Thieves" brought me here. Best part of the movie is this song. "That Brown Sound sho do get around", quote "The Stand" original movie

[@netanrosenthal1240]

Wow this is incredible! Such an amazing guitarist

[@ODgol4]

Life with John Mayer brought me here and I am thankful for it

[@jrlb14]

I discovered Shuggie’s music in 2013. What a vibe!

[@bellamaina3017]

My boyfriend has just sent me this and I love it❤

[@MarcoCorti-pi5ut]

❤

[@bellamaina3017]

@@MarcoCorti-pi5ut kisses my love

[@Snail611]

Michael Kiwanuka brought me here and I knew it was gonna be golden

[@rightweaponry908]

THE FIRST 22 SECONDS OF THIS SONG IS MY CHURCH🙏🏽

[@subjectsaber]

This came on in Starbucks and I just had to hear it again! Great vibes...

[@hexonatapeloop]

I heard strawberry letter 23 in starbucks yesterday and spent ALL of today finding out who it was!

[@elt-on]

2026… I’m here ahead of my time… just like Shuggie

[@jakeloberg6588]

Absolute slapper of track… you know your gettin the good shit with a name like shuggie otis too

[@onenote9149]

I heard this song in the seventies never knew who sang it.herd it on six feet under on Netflix held my phone to the TV and up pop Shuggie Otis. Never herd of him that unfortunate for me because he knows his music 🎶 🎵 11/2023

[@sheilataylor1712]

Discovered 2024.. WOW

[@Heatherosie]

Wow I'm grooving to this HARD! I'm definitely grabbing his new album when it comes out next week. In the meantime...this is going on repeat!

[@myrontaylor5310]

Dude is dope crazy how I'm just now finding out about him but music is so vast that one could never hear it all in one lifetime even music from your generation I believe. I see modern artist like Miguel and Thundercat possibly being influenced by him

[@Vwoods27]

Den of Thieves brought me here. Love this song! It made the scene very groovy!

[@markaddis84]

Veronica Woods was that the scene where Ice Cube Jr. was brought into the room with all the detectives and prostitutes?

[@Vwoods27]

Yes - that’s it!!!! Lol

[@alialiayyy]

Just found my summer 2023 Jam!!

[@headin0ut]

Me too❤

[@vmartinez949]

So funky!

[@davidrichardson7687]

Talent.

[@crozwayne]

This is stunning!

[@williamjones6636]

Miles Ahead...Mentor... Prince, say no more.

[@estheruribe227]

I love this song!

[@madkatrecords1]

Memories of Dolores Park in San Francisco,75 degrees conga player's in the park jammin'. Smokin' out. Good times!

[@michaelmancillas9763]

Reminds me of my old job at Pier 1, 2001-2009

[@tialugo220]

Just hearing about him in 2024!!

[@spininpints]

Just Amazing...

[@sparkymarkm322]

Apparently you appreciate the good stuff!

[@endurancediwa]

Jayz brought me here..... I love anything jay loves

[@daxythedogo]

So underrated.

[@niftygreencap]

The king of pretty funk.

[@burgolina]

Fantastic !!!!!

[@bradnichols57]

Straight up funkdfied!! groovyass jam...Love ole Suggie

[@jpsmith9600]

I love this song.

[@aquafunk07]

Beauty no doubt still going strong 2020

[@mikechristensen1285]

Great track. The late great Sharon Jones covered this in an excellent way.

[@LALFAST]

Heard this the other day while shuffling through some old soul and funk songs. I would never have guessed that this gem was made in 2013.

[@dethteck2263]

Come on man, dont be assuming, look up your information before you sound like a clown

[@BeatrizOgden]

love God;s voice thru shuggie

[@invimob]

Música que inspira.

[@ISVVVc628]

I will always love this💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@ellottelim360]

Love this groove

[@traypow1]

First time I heard it also in 21. This song Is Hott!

[@jasminecarpenter8893]

Hearing this in 2023 and I LOVE IT!!

[@petracisneros7422]

This song is amazing!!!

[@maxcinerobinson3377]

He was the shit to me in the 70s❤️❤️❤️❤️