Posted on 10/01/2018 12:01:00 AM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
His style amplified his emotions, clusters of sixteenth notes often played in a dark-tinged minor key that sounded both thrilling and chilling. Rush paid his rent working in a steel mill and driving a truck, among other jobs, but his music couldn’t be denied. His distinctiveness was indelibly captured on “I Can’t Quit You Baby,” his first single for Cobra Record Corp. in 1956. He cut some of his greatest tracks over the next two years with Cobra, including “My Love Will Never Die,” “Groanin’ the Blues,” “Three Times a Fool,” “Double Trouble” and “All Your Love (I Miss Loving).” If he had done nothing else but his Cobra recordings in 1956-58, he would still be revered as a blues great...
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Not many Mississippi born blues legends left
RIP Otis Rush and his Epiphone Riviera
Classic sound
RIP.
A great guitar player and an amazing singer. Some of his vocala are truly epic, as they say.
For instance:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AgZOodR5a4A
And:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZfJ-trw4uCg
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