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After the breakup of the GTOs in 1971, Fontenot married the guitarist Shuggie Otis. They divorced, and their son Lucky Otis (also a musician) was raised by his grandparents, the R&B musician Johnny Otis and his wife Phyllis. Miss Mercy died on July 27, 2020. [1]
Otis and a band entitled Shuggie Otis Rite toured internationally in 2013 in support of the release, including Australia, Japan, the U.S., Ireland and the U.K. [11] Their performances earned rave reviews from critics. [12] [13] [14] A new, mostly instrumental, album was released in April 2018 titled Inter-Fusion.
After his market in Sebastopol opened in 1994, Otis broadcast from there, with his band playing live on the air, later broadcasting from the Powerhouse Brewing Co. [43] After Otis' retirement in late 2004, his grandson Lucky hosted the show at KPFA for two years, until its final airing in late 2006, when Otis and his wife moved back to Los Angeles.
Inspiration Information is the third album by Shuggie Otis, who produced it and performed most of its instrumental parts.Released in 1974 on Epic Records, it reached number 181 on Billboard's Top 200 Pop Albums list, and its title track also reached number 56 on the U.S. R&B singles chart.
He was replaced in the band by Jimmy Nolen. Lewis' only later recording was accompanying singer Willie Egan. He is believed to have still been performing in Los Angeles nightclubs in the early 1960s. [2] However, Otis reported that, by the mid-1960s, Lewis had been reduced to homelessness. [5] He is believed to have died in Los Angeles in 1970. [1]
In the late 1970s he lived in Eugene, Oregon, where he formed the Robert Cray Band and collaborated with Curtis Salgado in the Cray-Hawks. In the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House , Cray was the uncredited bassist in the house party band Otis Day and the Knights .
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Otis Day and the Knights was a fictional R&B band shown performing in the 1978 movie National Lampoon's Animal House.Following the success of the film the actor portraying the group's lead singer acquired the rights to the name and created a real musical act that toured and recorded an album during the 1980s.