The title sums up both the album's circumstances and the story of Rush's career. These thrilling 1971 Capitol recordings, finally issued half a decade after they were cut,...
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This recording session was not released until five years after it was done. One can imagine the tapes practically smoldering in their cases, the music is so hot. Sorry,...
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His last major studio album was a welcome one; the production (by John Porter, who did similar duty with Buddy Guy) is neat and straight-ahead, and Otis is in good voice and...
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With sympathetic production from John Porter, a great lineup of players who follow him every bluesy turn of the way and a dozen well chosen pieces of material, Rush wipes...
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Otis Rush's debut recordings for the Cobra label are defining moments of Chicago blues. Seldom had a young Windy City artist recorded with this much harrowing emotion in...
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Inconsistent but sometimes riveting 1975 studio set that hits some high highs (a crunchy "Cut You a Loose," the lickety-split jazzy instrumental "Motoring Along") right...
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The 1995 CD release of this title, complete with a bit more than an extra ten minutes of material, looks good on paper and received lots of praise. The original album...
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Recorded in France back in 1987, this ten-song set finds Otis backed by strong trio support throughout in a delightfully engaged performance. Though several live albums...
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The powers-that-be at Alligator were subjected to a fair amount of criticism for taking a 1977 album of standards that Rush had cut in Sweden and overdubbing Lucky...
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Roughly a parallel to Buddy Guy's manic Stone Crazy!, this extroverted, slightly messy set cut in France features manic performances by Rush, who is joined by Jimmy Dawkins...
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Otis Rush's crunching guitar and vocals were never more emphatic than during the '70s when it seemed that he would actually find the pop attention and mass stardom he...
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Panned by many a critic upon its 1969 release, Otis Rush's trip to Muscle Shoals sounds pretty fine now (with the obvious exceptions of "My Old Lady" and "Me," which no...
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This album on the House of Blues label is a bit smoother and more slickly produced (by Rush and famed Memphis producer Willie Mitchell) than Rush's classic, rough-edged...
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The title says it all. This is the essential Otis Rush, the singles recorded for Eli Toscano's Cobra label between 1956 and 1958. If Rush had never recorded another note,...
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