The Otis Rush Collection PDF. Guitar Recorded versions. Sixteen tunes from the master of Chicago blues. A look back at Chicago in the ’50s with a Blues Master by Dave Rubin.
Otis Rush was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. His distinctive guitar style featured a slow-burning sound and long bent notes. With qualities similar to the styles of other 1950s artists Magic Sam and Buddy Guy, his sound became known as West Side Chicago blues and was an influence on many musicians, including Michael Bloomfield, Peter Green and Eric Clapton.
Rush was left-handed and played as such; however, his guitars were strung with the low E string at the bottom, upside-down from typical guitarists. He often played with the little finger of his pick hand curled under the low E for positioning. It is widely believed that this contributed to his distinctive sound. He had a wide-ranging, powerful tenor voice.
Songs include:
- Ain’t Enough Comin’ In
- All Your Love
- Checking Up On My Baby
- Cold Day in Hell
- Double Trouble
- Easy Go
- Groaning the Blues
- Homework
- I Can’t Quit You Baby
- Keep On Loving Me Baby
- My Baby’s A Good ‘Un
- My Love Will Never Die
- Right Place, Wrong Time
- So many Roads, So many trains
- Take A look behind
- Three Times a Fool
Format: PDF, 127 pages
