The Johnny Otis Show - Country Girl - R&B Groover.wmv

[richythebluesman]

Country Girl reached the #29 spot on the Billboard R&B Charts in 1969

[foobird58]

JohnnyOtis died Tuesday January 17, 2012 in the Los Angeles area, where he had lived for much of his life, said Tom Reed, a black-music historian. He was 90.

Born white, the son of Greek immigrant parents, and raised in a predominantly black neighborhood in Northern California in the 1920s, Otis decided as a youth that he'd rather be black.

The choice put him on a path to a life in music during which he created the sensually pulsing 1958 hit "Willie and the Hand Jive."

[CinemaCinder]

In which a then (in 1969) 47-year old legend, aided by a tough, sly vocalist (Delmar "Mighty Mouth" Evans) and his teen wunderkind guitarist son (Shuggie Otis) lay down the thickest, funkiest, molasses-saturated blues groove imaginable, while shuckin' and jivin' about some foxy lady who's got their nuts rattled. What we in the know refer to as "Red Beans 'n' Rice American Classical Music."