Otis Rush Live at Tramps, New York City - 1993 (audio only)
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 Published On Jan 22, 2023

Otis Rush Live at Tramps, New York City, October 16th, 1993.
-Setlist:
01. All Your Love
02. Stormy Monday
03. Ain't That Good News
04. Double Trouble
05. Feel So Bad
06. Gambler's Blues
07. Sugar Mama
08. More Than You Can Chew
09. Without My Baby By Myself
10. Introduce Otis Rush/All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
11. Instrumental shuffle
12. Broken Heart/Lonely Man
13. Laughin' and Cryin'
14. Let's Have A Natural Ball
15. Fever
16. Please Love Me/Double Trouble
17. Instrumental Outro
-Lineup:
Otis Rush - guitar, vocals
James Wheeler - guitar, vocals
David Rice - keyboards
Sam Burton - drums
Fred Burns - bass

Otis Rush Jr. (April 29, 1934 – September 29, 2018) 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.
Rush died on September 29, 2018, from complications of a stroke. His death was announced on his website by his wife Masaki.
Gregg Parker, CEO and a founder of the Chicago Blues Museum said of Rush: "He was one of the last great blues guitar heroes. He was an electric god". Writing in The New York Times, Bill Friskics-Warren said, "A richly emotive singer and a guitarist of great skill and imagination, Mr. Rush was in the vanguard of a small circle of late-1950s innovators, including Buddy Guy and Magic Sam, whose music, steeped in R&B, heralded a new era for Chicago blues."
(Wikipedia).

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