#2774 Shuggie Otis - Freedom Flight

An album of guitar music that's real smooth and real pretty, for better or worse. Otis's blues stuff is fine - deft, but without a lot of character. All that smoothness and prettiness works better when he's swinging more pop (the sparkling Strawberry Letter 23) or experimental (the jazzy Freedom Flight). A totally enjoyable, professional, well-executed piece of muso rock that takes too few chances to be especially memorable 3.5/5