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Essential Collection: The Classic Cobra Recordings 1956-1958 [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

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Otis Rush is considered one of the grand masters of Chicago's West Side blues sound. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, along with Magic Sam, Buddy Guy, Mighty Joe Young and the young Luther Allison, Rush created a guitar-driven style that inspired generations of aspiring bluesmen. His soaring, emotional guitar playing and his equally stunning vocal delivery have made him a legend of Chicago… Read more in Amazon's Otis Rush Store

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  • Audio CD (September 19, 2000)
  • Original Release Date: September 19, 2000
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Varese Sarabande
  • ASIN: B00004YLOA
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,600 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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    #25 in  Music > Blues > Chicago Blues
    #54 in  Music > Blues > Modern Blues
    #63 in  Music > Blues > Regional Blues

 
1. I Can't Quit You Baby
2. Sit Down Baby
3. Violent Love
4. My Love Will Never Die
5. Groaning the Blues
6. If You Were Mine
7. Love That Woman
8. Jump Sister Bessie
9. Three Times a Fool
10. She's a Good 'Un
11. It Takes Time
12. Checking on My Baby
13. Double Trouble
14. Keep on Loving Me Baby
15. All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
16. My Baby Is a Good 'Un
17. I Can't Quit You Baby [Take 3]
18. Little Red Rooster
19. Groaning the Blues [Take 3]
20. My Love Will Never Die [Take Unknown]
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Genre: Blues Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 19-SEP-2000

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not Even Rush Could Top These Cuts, July 25, 2001
Otis Rush - the first of the legendary young guns on the blues scene in Chicago's West Side in the late 1950s to hit beyond the home turf (with the incandescent "I Can't Quit You, Baby") - has also had the hardest time topping his earliest recordings. He's had plenty enough moments in the years since he cut these tracks for the ill-fated Cobra/Chief operation, but the raw soul, fire, and lyricism he poured into two years' worth of cuts for Cobra have few equals among his contemporaries and successors alike.

It begins with "I Can't Quit You, Baby," the first hit for both Rush himself and for the Cobra operation. After all these years (and no few rather questionable covers, from a too-reverent turn by the original Savoy Brown Blues Band to a too-irreverent turn by Led Zeppelin) the gospel lacing in Rush's vocal and the supply-shaded phrasing in his guitar lines cut deep and true over that thundercrack rhythm section and through that striking minor-key (at the time a grand step forward for Chicago blues, as was the employment of an actual electric bass, as opposed to a guitarist playing the bass lines on the low strings or an upright bassist).

It continues with music that runs a pretty thick swath between gospel-inspired blues, jump blues shifted to a chunky backbeat, a dash of swamp blues (give a careful listen to "It Takes Time" and you might think Rush would have been just as much at home among the Louisiana swamp bluesmen then beginning their striking run of recordings with the Excello operation and its deep-and-booming reverb), and even a little Latinesque ("All Your Love (I Miss Loving)," whose effect on one Eric Clapton would become apparent in due enough course). But Rush is so powerful a blues presence and guitar phraser - and a very strong songwriter - even at this early point of his recording career that he just about wrings all those elements out into his own and leaves them all but wondering what hit them. Small wonder such of his Cobra cuts like "Three Times A Fool," "It Takes Time," "Double Trouble," "Keep On Loving Me, Baby" and "All Your Love (I Miss Lovin')" have become as enduring a round of blues classics as the Willie Dixon compositions which usually went on his singles ("I Can't Quit You, Baby," "Groanin' the Blues," "If You Were Mine").

His influence speaks for itself, and it only begins with Eric Clapton (whose scorching cover of "All Your Love" on the seminal "Blues Breakers" album speaks likewise), Elvin Bishop (who blistered on a soaring cover of "Double Trouble" on the third Butterfield Blues Band album), Mike Bloomfield (who liked to play "It Takes Time" in his live solo gigs and who was said to have jammed on occasion with Rush in Chicago), Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix (whose more unadorned blues outings owed more than a little to Rush's supple phrasing style), and his junior contemporary Buddy Guy. Bur for whatever reason - perhaps because it was just too overwhelming a job to try, even for its creator - Rush has never since equaled the deep immediacy of these two years' worth of sides. Don't hold it against him, though. You, too, would have an impossible time of it trying to top a beginning like this.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing restoration, July 16, 2002
By G. Wallace (Hilliard, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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I've owned the music on this set in a number of formats and collections. Some, though not all, of this music is as good as blues gets. But the sound on this latest restoration is far better than I imagined it could ever be. I hear things I never heard before. The 'Keep on Loving' track might even be a take I've never heard before. Highly recommended; replace your Cobra box with this and the Magic Sam Essential Collection released at the same time.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Seminal West Side recordings, January 6, 2003
By R. Weinstock (Falls Church, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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While Otis Rush certainly has grown as a blues giant, he never put together a body of compelling reordings as he did for the eight singles he recorded with Willie Dixon producing. Perhaps the focus necessary for three minute single sides make these so riveting. Rush's vocals are riveting while his guitar is brilliant throughout. One should not forget the notable contributions by Ike Turner, Walter Horton, Little Walter and others. Despite some of the material being somewhat lame (though Rush makes Violent Love listenable), the originals of I Can't Quit You Baby, My Love Will Never Die and All Your Love (I Miss Loving) are among the highpoints of fifties blues recordings. These recordings belong in any credible blues collection.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Spine-tingling electric blues
I've had these recordings in my collection on vinyl and cassette since the early 1970s and haven't heard these remastered versions but can't imagine them sounding any better so I... Read more
Published 8 months ago by W. P. Perry

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Otis Collection
This compilation has lots of Otis Rush's best early material, and while it predates his classic "So Many Roads," it is still an excellent collection of his music. Read more
Published on April 4, 2007 by Terence Allen

4.0 out of 5 stars Music good, sound ok
There are some very nice tunes on here with great riffs and licks to learn if youre a guitarist. You can tell Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton ate this stuff up! Read more
Published on January 6, 2007 by Jimmy Sheenan

5.0 out of 5 stars Every review here is 5 stars
because this is as good as it gets for blues singing, guitar playing and songwriting not necessarily in any order --- Otis Rush is as great a blues artist as any other in the... Read more
Published on August 10, 2004 by Anthony C. Navarro

5.0 out of 5 stars Blues at it's best
Excellent compilation and a great collection of songs recorded under the limited enviroment that Eli Toscano's Cobra Studio had, but all these songs stand by themselves. Read more
Published on June 16, 2004 by Mario Elizondo Regalado

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent
A criminally underrated performer, southpaw guitarist Otis Rush broke into the R&B top 10 on his first attempt with the great slow blues "I Can't Quit You Baby"... Read more
Published on November 29, 2003 by Docendo Discimus

5.0 out of 5 stars Rush for Otis!!
What do Duane Allman, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, and Jeremy Spencer have in common (besides the obvious electric fireworks)? Read more
Published on November 6, 2003 by Mitchell Lopate

5.0 out of 5 stars His Vocals&Guitar Playing are top Notch
when I first Heard this Set I was thinking WOW! this is where Eric Clapton got so much from.Otis Rush has a Energy&Vibe in His Playing that you can truly feel&enough sting in His... Read more
Published on February 22, 2003 by mistermaxxx@yahoo.com

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent
A must! Plenty of slag but the good cuts are among the absolute best ever IMO. Checkin' on my baby, Three times a fool, She's good un WILL induce out-of-body experience. Read more
Published on October 28, 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars INCREDIBLE!!!
I became familiar with this material on the box set "the Cobra Records Story" in which I listened exclusively to the 16 tracks that Otis Rush recorded. Read more
Published on September 20, 2000

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