Kooper Session

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Kooper Session: Super Session, Vol. II
Kooper Session - Super Session, Vol. II (Al Kooper album - cover art).jpg
Studio album by Al Kooper with Shuggie Otis
Released 1970
Recorded 1969
Genre Rock, Blues, R&B
Length 40:43
Label Columbia
Producer Al Kooper
Al Kooper with Shuggie Otis chronology
Kooper Session
(1970)
Here Comes Shuggie Otis
(1970)Here Comes Shuggie Otis1970
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars [1]

Kooper Session is the second-in-line of the Super Session albums featuring singer-songwriter Al Kooper. Joining Kooper in the guitar slot is 15-year-old phenomenon Shuggie Otis, son of legendary rhythm and blues pioneer Johnny Otis.

Divided into two halves, "The Songs" (a quartet of arranged gospel and rhythm and blues tracks) and "The Blues" (a trio of improvised blues tracks), the album, like Super Session before it, was quickly recorded and featured short, succinct tracks ("Double or Nothing", "One Room Country Shack") and fluid, drawn out jams highlighting the talents of the artists ("12:15 Slow Goonbash Blues", "Bury My Body").

Track listing

  1. "Bury My Body" (Al Kooper) – 8:57
  2. "Double or Nothing" (Booker T. Jones, Al Jackson, Jr., Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn) – 2:26
  3. "One Room Country Shack" (Mercy Dee Walton) – 3:35
  4. "Lookin' for a Home" (Edward Forehand) – 5:49
  5. "12:15 Slow Goonbash Blues" (Kooper, Shuggie Otis) – 9:27
  6. "Shuggie's Old-Time (dee-di-lee-di-leet-deet) Slide Boogie" (Kooper, Otis) – 4:04
  7. "Shuggie's Shuffle" (Kooper, Otis) – 6:26

Personnel

with

  • Stu Woods: electric bass (tracks 1-5 and 7)
  • Wells Kelly: drums (tracks 1-5 and 7)
  • Mark Klingman: piano (2, 5 and 7 only)
  • The Hilda Harris-Albertine Robinson Singers: backing vocals (1 and 4 only)

References

  1. Planer, Lindsay. Kooper Session at AllMusic