Somebody Likes It

Did I like listening to Shuggie Otis’s album “Inspiration Information”? Yeah, I did. A lot. So did everybody else recording this show with me. It’s not often you get to see the blueprint of a musical paradigm. The record was a little shaky, especially after the first 5 or 6 songs, but wow, what a first 5 or 6 songs. It reminded me of the old quote about the Velvet Underground and everybody that bought their records creating a band… This album is flawed for sure, but I feel like it’s impossible that Hall and Oates, Prince, Average White Band, Lenny Kravitz, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, and countless others would have become the hit-makers they became…or fuck, even found their signature sounds, without listening to this listless prodigy. Listless. It’s hard to hear a burgeoning genius like this go down with such a whimper…we talk about it a lot in this show… OK…got that out of my system. Pick Up "Inspiration Information" on Amazon ### A Few Minutes With ### Ryan picked [“Hollaback Girl”](https://www.