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- Date Released: March 14, 2006
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Fuel 2000 / The Orchard
The early side of this West Side Chicago blues innovator, collected.
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We Say...
Otis Rush's 1956-8 Cobra sides aren’t just a good introduction, they’re all you really need; despite other fine work, Otis never bested ‘em. Doomy, frenzied gems like “All Your Lovin’” and “I Can’t Quit You Baby” added B.B. King’s jazzy, single-string guitar attack to the Delta-rooted band style to create new directions for Chicago blues. While this has 10 of his Cobra sides, two identical Essential Otis Rush offerings contain all 16. Those have eight alternate takes while this goes with four live bonus tracks.
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They Say...
Otis Rush's singles for Eli Tuscanno's Chicago-based Cobra Records imprint were somewhat of a revelation when he recorded them between 1956 and 1958. Rush combined the electric country blues ensemble approach of Muddy Waters with the more urbane single-string guitar leads of B.B. King on these strikingly intense minor key classics, creating what later became known as "West Side blues." The atmosphere on songs here like Willie Dixon's "I Can't Quit You Baby" and "My Love Will Never Die" is thick and tense, by turns mournful and defiant, while Rush's own compositions like "Double Trouble" (which features Rush trading his smooth, elegant guitar leads with a manic-sounding Ike Turner) and his signature rhumba blues "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" retain the same level of desperate immediacy. This is indeed the truly essential Otis Rush, and by all rights his career should have blown huge, but a series of unrelated events conspired to keep Rush from the truly massive audience he deserved. This set has the crucial Cobra sides, and adds four live bonus tracks (including a muscular version of "Crosscut Saw") to make an adequate introduction to this great bluesman, but Varèse Sarabande's Essential Collection: The Classic Cobra Recordings from 2000 adds B-sides and alternate takes, making it the last word on these magnificent and explosive recordings.
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| 01. |  |
I Can't Quit You Baby |
3:39 |
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| 02. | |
My Love Will Never Die (Part 1) |
3:06 |
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| 03. | |
My Love Will Never Die (Part 2) |
3:05 |
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| 04. | |
Groaning The Blues |
3:03 |
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| 05. | |
Three Times A Fool |
2:49 |
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| 06. | |
She's A Good 'Un |
2:48 |
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| 07. | |
Checking On My Baby |
2:55 |
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| 08. | |
Double Tree |
2:42 |
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| 09. | |
Keep On Loving Me Baby |
2:19 |
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| 10. | |
All Your Love (I Miss Loving) |
2:37 |
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| 11. | |
It's So Hard For Me To Believe You Baby (Bonus Track) |
5:59 |
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| 12. | |
It's My Own Fault (Live) (Bonus Track) |
7:29 |
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| 13. | |
Crosscut Saw (Live) (Bonus Track) |
6:56 |
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| 14. | |
All Your Love (I Miss Loving) (Live) (Bonus Track) |
6:51 |
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14 Total Tracks, 56:18 Total Length
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Credits
- Bill Dahl - Programming // Bill Dahl - Liner Notes // Bill Dahl - Research // Len Fico - Project Coordinator // James Frasher - Cover Photo
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