Otis Rush - Live at Montreux 1986

Otis Rush | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Eagle Records
• ASIN: B000EDWL9Q
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,486 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tops

2. Will My Woman Be Home Tonight

3. Lonely Man

4. Gambler’s Blues

5. Natural Ball

6. Right Place, Wrong Time

7. Mean Old World

8. You Don’t Love Me

9. Crosscut Saw (feat. Eric Clapton)

10. Double Trouble (feat. Eric Clapton)

11. All Your Love (I Miss Loving) (feat. Eric Clapton)

12. Every Day I Have The Blues (feat. Luther Allison & Eric Clapton)

Editorial Reviews

Southpaw guitarist Otis Rush made his debut in 1956 with a cover of Willie Dixon’s "I Can’t Quit You Baby", charting his first Top Ten R&B hit. Over the course of his 50-year career, Rush has established himself as one of the premiere bluesmen on the Chicago circuit.

Often credited with being one of the architects of the West side guitar style, Rush’s esteemed status as a prime Chicago innovator is eternally assured by his trademark sound. Blues fans have said that his combination of ringing, vibrato-enhanced guitar work with an intense vocal delivery is powerful enough to force the hair on the backs of their necks upwards in silent salute.

Otis Rush Live At Montreux 1986 features the Chicago blues legend at his spine-tingling best. For his first appearance at the Montreux Festival, Rush is joined on stage by fellow blues stars Eric Clapton and Luther Allison for a truly special show. The CD features nearly an hour-and-a-half of performances of Rush classics, including "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)", "Double Trouble" and many more.

Customer Reviews

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great live performance!, April 23, 2006

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M. Bernocchi "mbernocchi" (Old Windsor, Berkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Otis Rush - Live at Montreux 1986 (Audio CD)

This is really, as someone has already pointed out, a great live recording. Surely one of the best live electric blues album that I own. Recorded at the Montreux Blues and Jazz festival in 1986 this CD is packed wall to wall with extraordinary feeling and great playing from all the musicians present on the stage. It appears immediately evident from the first note of the first track that Otis Rush was in a great form that night, and his singing and guitar playing is simply superb through out the entire concert. If you add to the mix an inspired Eric Clapton (that when plays the blues is second to none) sharing the centre of the stage on 4 songs and "dulcis in fundo" even the great Luther Allison for the closing act, you may start to have an idea of the final result. As a plus, and not a minor one, the quality of the sound is excellent and all the instruments sound clear. Very difficult not to mention the killer version of the classic "Crosscut saw" and an even more intense "All your love (I miss loving)" with Otis and Eric jamming together. In conclusion a five stars plus record that I suggest you should add to your collection if you are a blues fan and you like your blues very much guitar driven.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars That's what i'm talkin' bout., March 25, 2006

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Willy (Hazlet, N.J.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Otis Rush - Live at Montreux 1986 (Audio CD)

This is one of the best live albums i've ever heard.I'd put it right up there with BB King's Live at the Regal and The Allman Brother's live at the Fillmore.
Otis is in rare form himself but then add Eric Clapton for five songs and Luther Allison for one and you've got magic.And the sound quality is great.Too bad the rest of Otis's live albums didn't sound like this.Buy this,you'll never hear guitar jams like this anywhere.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As brilliant as Rush and Clapton are, it's Allison in the end, May 24, 2006

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o dubhthaigh (north rustico, pei, canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Otis Rush - Live at Montreux 1986 (Audio CD)

that takes this record to places it never would have reached otherwise. Otis Rush is a major force compositionally and stylistically in contemporary electric blues, and he has the voice of genuine authority when he sings. What you get on the first five cuts are a sampling of just how strong those talents are. When Clapton comes on to join him, Rush pulls out of Clapton some of the very best work Eric has committed to recording ever. For my ears, it would be until THE CONCERT FOR GEORGE and the Robert Johnson discs that Clapton would be this incendiary again. And that's odd about Clapton: on his own, he is not his best advocate. Put him in a context like this, where he is working within the blues, and he is a very different beast altogether. Clapton tears up his counterattacks to Rush and they clearly are intensely focused on wringing everything out of each song.
That alone would be enough for any record to aspire to, but wait. Luther Allison arrives for the closer, at first without a guitar, and whips not just the audience, but Rush and Clapton into a frenzy. Strapping on his Strat, Allison takes this recording to heights clearly unaniticipated by everyone else in the room. It is a performance for the ages. But Luther was always like that. For my money, there was and remains no finer or more exciting guitarist in any discipline of music. So, as stunning as the first 8 tracks are, number 9 blows them all away.

And the best part is, the DVD is even better!