Johnny Otis Blues Caravan - Part One: Hound Dog 1952-1954

2025

• JOHNNY OTIS - aka “The Godfather Of R&B” - was one of those men to whom the phrase “A Living Legend” was applied throughout his entire career.
• As a singer, musician, composer, bandleader, record producer and talent scout he went on to become a seminal influence on both R&B and Rock & Roll.
• This compilation is the first in a two CD mini-series which anthologises virtually everything that he recorded between 1952-57 for Don Robey’s famed Peacock and Duke labels, in Houston, Texas.
• In addition to Otis’ own releases it features sides on which his band backed artists like Big Mama Thornton, Joe “Mr Google Eyes” August, Johnny Ace, Joe Fritz, Little Richard and Junior Ryder, and which Otis, in turn, produced.
• This is the companion volume to “Johnny Otis, The Duke/Peacock Sessions, Part 2, 1954-57” (JASMCD3324)