Cryin' Time

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{{Infobox album

| name = Cryin' Time

| type = Studio album

| artist = Otis Spann

| cover = Cryin' Time.jpg

| released = {{Start date|1969}}

| recorded = March 7, 20 & 21, 1968

| studio = Universal Recording, Chicago

| genre = Blues

| length = 35:23

| label = Vanguard

| producer = Sam Charters

| chronology = Otis Spann

| prev_title = The Bottom of the Blues

| prev_year = 1968

| next_title = The Biggest Thing Since Colossus

| next_year = 1969

}}

Cryin' Time is an album by blues pianist and vocalist Otis Spann recorded in Chicago in 1968 and released by Vanguard Records.

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|2.5|4}}{{cite book |last1=Russell |first1=Tony |last2=Smith |first2=Chris |title=The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings |year=2006 |edition=|publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-140-51384-4|page=604}}

}}

AllMusic reviewer Mark Allan writes "While the Muddy Waters sideman is best known for piano, his soulful organ steals the show on this late-'60s release. His singing is serviceable, helped by wife Lucille Spann on two cuts. Country Joe & the Fish co-founder Barry Melton plays lead guitar, with Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson taking the second chair."{{Cite web

|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/cryin-time-mw0000200656

|last=Allan

|first=Mark

|title=Cryin' Time – Review

|website=AllMusic

|access-date=June 19, 2023

}}