Saturday, December 2, 2006

Otis Rush

Otis Rush (1934- ) has a wide-ranging, powerful tenor voice. Signed to Mercury Records in 1976, he remained with the label for twenty years. Rush continued to produce quality recordings and perform live throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1999 Otis Rush earned a Grammy Award for best traditional blues album for his 1998 release, Any Place I'm Goin'.

I can't quit you baby


Double Trouble. Antones, 1985.
Otis Rush is a master of the slow blues. Stevie Ray Vaughan loved Otis so much, he named his band after this song; Double Trouble.

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