BOONE FROGGETT: GUITARIST & LEAD SINGER OF OTIS
ON BIG BLEND RADIO: Boone Froggett, lead singer and guitarist of OTIS, talks about their music and background, latest single “Last Fool in Line,” touring, and shows. Watch here in the YouTube player or download the episode on PodBean.
Recorded in a live full band take at The Rock House in Franklin Tennessee, their new single “Last Fool in the Line,” was produced, engineered and mixed by renowned Grammy Award winning musician Kevin McKendree (Brian Setzer, George Thorogood) and mastered by Ty Tabor of the acclaimed US rock band Kings X.
Kentucky born and bred, OTIS, which formed in 2015, is a young, hard rocking quartet who performs and plays their exciting music like they’ve been around for 40 years. Alongside Boone, John Seeley (bass), Alex Wells (guitar), and Dale Myers (drums), these tight-knit guys stay connected to their homegrown roots having been around traditional instruments from a young age in piano, fiddle, and guitar instilling in them an appreciation of country-rock, bluegrass, blues, soul, and folk music.
The band blends roots, blues, classic rock, soul, and, of course, Southern rock and has created an original sound reminiscent of some of the great blues-rock/Southern rock bands like the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top and Wet Willie.
They also draw inspiration from some of the all-time blues/soul greats like Muddy Waters, Leadbelly and various artists from back in the classic heyday of Motown Records.
OTIS is new musical blood for a new day with heavy, melodic blues-rock riffs, soaring guitar work, a pounding rhythm section, and raw, soulful vocals from Mr. Froggett.
The band embraces Southern rock’s hallowed past while charting their own future. With some of the legendary Southern rock bands winding it down or no longer in existence, OTIS is a proud, new torchbearer of the Southern rock/blues-rock heritage.
The band’s debut album, 2014’s “Tough Times: A Tribute to John Brim,” is a raw, groove-oriented, blues drenched masterpiece that got rave reviews and was a blueprint for things to come for the band. The blistering “Eyes of the Sun” was released in 2018 on Cleopatra Records and more than lived up to the promise of the band’s debut album.
Executive produced by Grammy-winning producer Paul Nelson, who earned his stripes by playing and performing with Johnny Winter and helping Johnny win a Grammy for his highly acclaimed album, “Step Back,” the album solidified the band’s influences into a boiling stew of rootsy, kickass, take-no-prisoners, blues-rock goodness kicked up with a bit of soul and funk spiciness. Good musical eats to say the least.
The band has also earned its stripes with several tours of both North America and Europe under their belt.
And now comes the single, “Last Fool in the Line,” which is a precursor to a full album that will be released sometime hopefully sooner than later (good things take time!) It’s always fun to watch a young, talented band come into its own and blaze their own trail and that’s exactly what OTIS is doing. You are invited to come along for the ride.
OTIS website: https://theotisband.com