Essential Collection: Classic Cobra Recordings

Otis Rush - Essential Collection: Classic Cobra Recordings

Essential Collection: Classic Cobra Recordings
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Artist: Otis Rush
Brand: RUSH,OTIS
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-09-19
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
  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. Sit Down Baby
  19. Groaning The Blues [Take 3]
  20. My Love Will Never Die [Take Unknown]
  21. She's A Good 'Un [Take 4]
  22. Three Times A Fool [Take Unknown]
  23. Double Trouble [Take 3]
  24. Sit Down Baby [Take Unknown]

Music reviews of Essential Collection: Classic Cobra Recordings

Music Review: Not Even Rush Could Top These Cuts
Rating: 5 Stars

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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Genre: Blues Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 19-SEP-2000

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