He was great. When I got into blues was early 70’s. I thought he had died because he was not part of the touring scene. Strange, because he was one of the best and very influential on others. And he lived until 2018. I just read on wiki that a 1971 album was not released by the label for some reason and was not released till ‘76 and he didn’t make another till ‘85. He didn’t seem to tour the south. I guess those are reasons he kind of disappeared from the National scene. By ‘85 the music had moved on. He was mainly big in the late 50’s-early 60’s. Didn’t really get into the blues-rock crossover popularity.
I got to see him live in 95 he opened for Page and Plant Sept 13th Friday at the United Center Chicago!!! A good time for all a history lesson for some!!!!
@@liberty5565 Did Ray do a version of Manish Boy ? Love Muddy Waters version . I know Willie Dixon wrote it ( a master blues songsmith ) but didn't have a strong enough voice to pull it off like Muddy
Patty Selma: That comment was coined by BB King, not Tony Conner. Here is the entire comment "The Blues ain't nothing but a good man feeling bad". "Ya know, Country music is a white man's Blues".
@@bobbywilhelm6670 actually country music is a fusion of blues and celtic music., besides if you do some research you'll find that some of the early pioneers of country music were black. Music is for everyone.
You know this man has never got the recognition he deserves. You always hear of BB King, Steve Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Howling Wolf and many more, but rarely you hear Otis Rush,s name. Not saying anything bad about the other musicians, but Otis Rush deserves to be on that list. The man's voice and guitar skills were awesome. R.I.P. Otis Rush
Stevie Ray obviously could play the blues....But Never came across as Authentic to me...merely Imitating .He played to impress and it didn't come from his heart.
I have to laugh when I see those lists of the greatest blues singers and they list Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix and guys like Otis Rush, Junior Parker or Magic Sam get no mention. Its more like the most famous blues singers the average white guy can think of.
Black isn't a race. They are, in fact, North Indians descendants of Olmec and Mayan civilization depicted with chocolate skin and twisted wooly hair on American lands for over 1,000 years. North/South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama called West India.
Hendrix was not using any pedals when he was playing the chitterlin' circut...., I don't think there were too many pedals as we know those of today before the 1960s except for the tremelo and maybe the volume pedal.
This is the genius that inspired my late great friend Michael Bloomfield. Otis could make the guitar sound like a blues piano. RIP my friend.😢 Otis, along with the late, great, Pete "Guitar" Lewis, inspired me to pursue the guitar too. I'm now nearly 80 years young, and to me the world just ain't the same without them being here in it.😢
Saw him live, he walked out in a cowboy hat, boots, playing a ES 335 through a mesa boogie amp, the glasses were shaking at the bar, he lit it up with the slow burning notes of a genius. He was a bad ass man, serious and sincere.
I was at his condo on the 19th floor on Irving Park & Michigan one afternoon when he decided to fire that Mesa Boogie up and give the entire building a short free concert. His neighbors were very unhappy with him for doing that.
i saw him live as well, and that is very much like what happened that night in Chicago. Oh, must have been close to thirty years ago or so. At his best, there was no one better than Otis Rush. This performance on the video, well, I had to pick myself up off the floor after hearing it for the first time... just knocked me out. Wish I could remember the club where I saw him; maybe "Wise Fools" or "Kingston Mines" one of those places back in the day.... I miss the old days when you could see/hear legends like this in ordinary blues clubs and theaters in Chicago... Otis Rush, Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland, Buddy Guy, so many great names....
@@bobbybluz1 Hahaha! You never know when you might get inspired! When and where makes no difference. Gawd bless that man! The neighbors can get done. All I'm saying.
@@GeorgiaBoy1961 He played B.L.U.E.S.on Halsted in'84 and B.L.U.E.S ETC in about 88. Also saw him open for Los Lobos at the Riviera around that same time.
One of the most underated blues guitarists . And that voice is just crazy . Fantastic ! I'm guessing Robert Plant heard this version of I Can't Quit You and ran with it
Otis Rush may have been criminally-underrated by the public, but the cats - the real cats like Stevie Ray Vaughn - they knew how great he was. SRV's group, "Double Trouble" was named after an Otis Rush song, in fact. Speaking of underrated, Rush's 1976 recording, "Right Place, Wrong Time," is simply sublime. It contains some of his best playing, bar none, and stands up right alongside his best early work. Rush just had the most-beautiful vibrato; when he'd shake a note on his guitar, no one could make it sound quite like him. When he played, you knew instantly who is was - that's the mark of greatness.
@@GeorgiaBoy1961 Agreed.. He had absolutely the best vibrato of any blues guitarist I've ever heard and his voice.. omg. He's not underrated by musicians like myself at all.
Ha. I was 40 when I left my last comment, and I'm 54 now. But while time may pass, this never gets old. Music really doesn't get much better than this.
When I watch Chicago blues videos and these old bands I wonder wtf happen to the world that we don’t get even a third of the talent of those guys nowadays.
Albert King , BB King, Chuck Berry, Hubert Sumlin, Lightning Slim, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Curtis Mayfield, Lowell Fulson, Little Walter, Johnny Jenkins, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters , Albert Collins , Earl Hooker, Johnny 'guitar' Watson, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reid, Young Buddy Guy , T-Bone Walker, Ike Turner, Lightning Hopkins, Earl King, Freddie King, Robert Jnr. Lockwood, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lonnie Johnson, Pee Wee Crayton, Little Walter, Clarence 'gatemouth' Brown, Son House, Guitar Slim, Elmore James, Otis Rush, Young BB King. You're welcome guys let the greats live on.
Memphis slim, little Johnny Jones, luther tucker, Willie Johnson, pat hare, Jr Parker, frank frost, Sam Carr, homesick James, Magic Sam, magic slim, sunnyland slim, james cotton, byther Smith, big mama thorton, jb Lenoir, jb Hutto, snooky Pryor, sonny terry, brownie McGhee, Fred McDowell, sleepy john Estes, bo diddley, Jimmy Roger's, Otis Spann, Otis smothers, big Walter Horton, Jesse fuller, furry Lewis, harmonica Smith, Morris pejoe, slim harpo, Wilbert Harrison, big Joe turner, Pinetop Perkins, Billy boy Arnold, big boy Crudup, champion Jack Dupree, ivory Joe hunter, Johnny Young, Leroy Washington, Louis brooks, guitar gable, Matt guitar Murphy, lonesome sundown, whispering Smith, Roy Perkins, yank Rachell, kc Douglas, Johnny Copeland, Fred below, Eddie king, Lafayette Leake, odie Payne, Milton rector, AL Duncan, Eddie Boyd, Louis and Dave Myers, Jack Myers, Jimmy Dawkins, Lt Smith, big boy spires, Willie Smith, Johnny Williams, Jimmy McCracklin, Amos Milburn, peg leg Sam, hound dog Taylor, buster brown, brewer Phillips, Joe Hill Louis. Hopefully people do more than just look at these names. I hope you look them up and read their stories and listen to their music.
Chris Knevil Yeah right.... You don't love anybody when you STEAL from them and don't give THEM credit. This is why you didn't see Led Zeppelin bonding with the bluesmen like others did: THE ANIMALS, THE YARDBIRDS, THE ROLLING STONES, MIKE BLOOMFIELD, JOHNNY WINTER ETC.. All those names mentioned really respected Blues, unlike Jimmy and Plant. That's why those older blues guys didn't mind sharing the spotlight with them. Led Zeppelin got taken to court by WILLIE DIXON for fucks sake! The godfather of BLUES.
Of course they did. Just not enough to hurt there own personal aspirations or finances. Willie Dixon may have taken them to court but Zepp ripped Whole Lotta Love off the Small Faces 1st album. They ripped Mayall's arrangement of I Can't Quit You Baby from the Crusade album and stole obscure lyrics from Moby Grape for some of Since I've been lovin' You! Everybody stole from everybody else. Cream, for example. Did well out of I'm So Glad, but they also picked up the tab for Skip James' medical care before he died! There's the rub. Its about 'paying dues'. Something Zepp never really got the hang of. They were all about 'hey look at us'!!! What kind of Charlatans would think of renaming Howlin Wolf's Killing Floor and crediting its existence to themselves?
I firmly believe mistakes during live performances that are embraced or gracefully corrected by the talent harnessed by real musicians is what music is and always will be.
If it weren't for Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, the Doors, the Rolling Stones and many others we may not know hardly any these old blues legends......RIP Otis
Quist My name is Michael Williams. I'm an aspiring blues artist. I really want to connect with people. I'm already subbed to your UA-cam page. Can I get a sub back?
Its the white supremacists prez Obama's election and re election woke them up from their american dream.A fast shrinking minority this is the foundation of modern music ,even shredding a LA jimi.
That is one of the best one liners in the whole blues catalogue.........."i cannot quit you baby , but i got to put you down for a while ". Just wonderful , love BB King singing this .
I saw this in 1966 and, yes, you are right, they were (very) different times! Most people wore suits in those days to go to a concert but I did appreciate what I was witnessing, even then.
For as kick ass as the opening vocal is, the second chorus of his guitar solo might be even better. No flying senselessly through as many notes as possible, no pyrotechnics, no bullshit. Just well-chosen notes played well with a really nice tone and vibrato. Bravo, indeed.
I’ve been to a few open air blues shows in the last 20 years. They were like this “click”. Most of them played the same expensive guitars. (Can’t remember the name of them, seems like they were some kind of hollow metal body guitar). Anyway, they played the same chords and progressions, more of a modern style, I guess. It seemed as though they were playing more towards each other, showing off their chops, rather than okaying to the audience. My point is, it wasn’t anything like the good old blues roots. The leads all sounded generic and lifeless. Unlike Otis Rush, Jimi Hendrix, Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop, Clapton, Keef, and so many more.
@@johneltringham5975 I think anyone who is either a big fan of blues or LZ know which songs, or the elements of songs in lyric or structure that were begged, borrowed, or stolen by them. That has been going on since the inception of music, especially in the blues genre. Robert Johnson was a master thief, almost everyone of the recorded songs in his catalog were done before by other bluesmen, he made some changes in rythem, tempo, or lyrics.
Clapton was a big fan of Otis Rush's Cobra Records releases too, the guitar and vocal style. Listen to Clapton covering "Double Trouble" on his album, and then compare to Otis Rush's 1950's Cobra label release of the same song.
Damn...even this man's blues have the blues...he is amazing and I've never heard of him before now...and that's a shame bc the man can sing n play like nobody's bidness!!❤
hey man , who else is here from the year 3247 ? . I'm visiting from the future . This is great stuff. Thanking you as a lover of the blues travelling time warp goes .
If it's in Europe, or especially Sweden, they treat the blues guys the same way they treat classical musicians. I used to think they were corpses, but they just have a lot of reverence.
That timeless, swanky guitar tone.. will never die. The legendary Otis Rush.. one of the greatest Chicago Bluesmen, period. Play On, Mr. Rush ~ (4•29•1934 - 9•29•2018)
It’s almost too damn easy to hear his absolute influence on guys like Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton; it’s so obvious to me that it hurts!! This guy takes the term “legend” to new heights. Otis is definitely among the greatest blues legends, easy. 😎
@TheGraveyardDog...And especially on Mike Bloomfield. I used to get high with Mike and many other musicians back in the day. When he first heard Otis Rush it was if he had been struck by lightning, but in a good way. He cleaned up well enough and long enough to study him. I'm almost 80 and was there right in the middle of that wonderful era and wonderful time to be alive.🙂
Yes, Otis is definitely among the greatest blues legends!!! Page or Clapton are not good examples, I think. Ok, perhaps they covered his songs... Otis was unique! Like Albert Collins or Freddie King, for example.
....brings back memories of me hearing my mom sing the lyrics.....you know I love you baby...my love for you I could never hide....well I love you baby.. you know you're my desire! RIP Mother...I remember this playing on Friday and Saturday nights...I miss those times!!
intheblues I know right Shane haha. I think it has a lot to do with respect though from back then. Crowds and people were more polite and respectful in that time.
In the 60's European intellectual elites (more or less) were almost the only audience for blues, and the artists were thankful for that little attention. This was a rare chance for the audience to carefully study the American greats, and what we are seeing is reverence, not lack of interest. They don't want to miss a note. For many this was their first, and possibly only, encounter, and if anyone had shouted out Halleluja, others in the audience would've been enraged with them. To dress well was also a sign of respect. Notice that the artists also dressed well. It's all about understanding the context, which is so foreign to us now. These European tours were also recorded for posterity, something which wasn't happening much at all in the US in 1966. That's why the best videos from then are from European sources who also archived them.
They were all jumping for joy on the inside. People growing up in northern Europe and Scandinavia back then, were raised to not show their emotions, at least not in public.
One of my all time faves in the "west side sound" - which was more influenced by BB Kings/T Bone Walker's style than the south side electrified delta of Muddy, Wolf, Elmore James etc... Not being able to afford horn sections they compensated by cranking their amps and guys like Otis, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Dawkins, Magic Sam etc. created their own unique styles. One bluesman said he would put southpaw Otis Rush's voice and guitar up against anyone in any genre of music and he'd stand his ground. I GOTTA agree with that assessment. So glad I was able to see him perform a few times in my life.- a true treasure in music.
@ Karl: Otis Rush always had the hippest records. His 1976 recording, "Right Place, Wrong Time" has killer tunes on it, horn charts which are tasty as can be, and a tight band backing him up. And Otis himself never sounded better, in voice or on guitar. I was fortunate to see/hear him live on a number of occasions in his native Chicago, and those are musical memories I cherish. Nothing beats seeing him in a place like Kingston Mines, one of the clubs he used to frequent, or any of the other places around town where the audience was right near the stage. Saw him at giant festivals, too, like Chicago Blues Fest - which was fun - but not as impactful as seeing him up close and personal.
@@iket.9930- Yes, it certainly was, for good long while. You could see the ads in the "Chicago Reader" for all of the blues clubs famous at the time, Wise Fools among them, and his name would be there. I was too young to catch Otis Rush and the other Chicago West Side blues greats back in the old days, but was fortunate-enough to catch many of them later in their careers, starting in the 1980s. Otis really delivered the goods live; I sure am glad I got to see/hear him play. Also caught him once when he opened for Stevie Ray Vaughn. Of course, his group "Double Trouble," was named for an Otis Rush tune....
Man!...What a powerful soulful voice!...First time seeing Otis Rush performing this soul classic! Heard this a few times but had no idea that this was Otis Rush on the vocals and guitar! Down home blues forever, y'all!
Otis Rush was the complete package when it comes to being a great blues musician. His voice was famous for its expressiveness, and so was his guitar playing. Rush's style was unorthodox on the instrument, but he turned it into a virtue: He learned to play with the order of the strings inverted from the normal low E being the highest on the neck and the high E being the lowest; consequently, his style - which seems easy to imitate - is very unique and unique-sounding. His vibrato was famous among guitarists for its beauty. Though Rush wasn't as well-known for his instrumentals as some other bluesmen, he did several numbers of this kind over his career, and these, too, were classics. "Easy Go" - one of these from his 1970s LP "Right Place, Wrong Time," became a staple of his live shows. Rush was also a talented composer - and a number of his tunes have found a permanent home in the canon of modern blues. Tunes he either wrote and performed, or songs by others which he made famous. Stevie Ray Vaughn was so taken by Rush that he named his band "Double Trouble" after one of his songs. I saw Rush perform live a number of times, but perhaps the most-memorable is when he opened for SRV when Vaughn appeared at the old Poplar Creek outdoor music theater in the 1980s, and then came out and guested with Stevie Ray for an extended segment in his show. The audience could tell how much they dug being up there and playing together. Thank you to the individual(s) who posted this! Is this recording available commercially?
That first howl!!! DAMN!!! All I can say is, it was a good thing I was already sitting down! Reaches right into your chest and takes your breath away! Undeniably the BLUES!!! ♫♪
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There’s no worse crime than the fact the blues never gets the credit. It’s the root of all great modern music.
Thy just received their Credit
It's Kendrick 😁
Such a true opinion
@@joseespinoza-is4tl It's considered 'black' that's why. It's okay the city in Orléans is flooding now over them constantly being forgotten.
@@MsNerdsRevengehes flat
True That!
God gave man a voice. And woman gave him.....the Blues.
WORD!!! 🤣
@@BeezoHow facts
😎🎶🖕🏽🔥💯
Amen!!
Confirm
Never heard this guy before, I'm 72, and the first sound out of his mouth nails me to the effin wall. Man is the truth.
hell yah god damn
Wow where u been...the boys in England heard him in the 50s. Must've been stuck on elvis..
He was great. When I got into blues was early 70’s. I thought he had died because he was not part of the touring scene. Strange, because he was one of the best and very influential on others. And he lived until 2018.
I just read on wiki that a 1971 album was not released by the label for some reason and was not released till ‘76 and he didn’t make another till ‘85. He didn’t seem to tour the south. I guess those are reasons he kind of disappeared from the National scene. By ‘85 the music had moved on.
He was mainly big in the late 50’s-early 60’s. Didn’t really get into the blues-rock crossover popularity.
Same here! That wail!
“All the feels” was right there! #theblues 🎶🎸
I got to see him live in 95 he opened for Page and Plant Sept 13th Friday at the United Center Chicago!!! A good time for all a history lesson for some!!!!
0:18 That “Well” lasted longer then my previous relationship
Jake the Savage same here man, same here
Jake the Savage 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Love that. Ray Charles' has a great "wellllllllll" as well. "Mannish Boy" has the best opening. I crank that song like it was metal. haha
@@liberty5565 Did Ray do a version of Manish Boy ? Love Muddy Waters version . I know Willie Dixon wrote it ( a master blues songsmith ) but didn't have a strong enough voice to pull it off like Muddy
@@scottflowe9099 no, "I Got A Woman". Only know of Muddy doing Mannish Boy. Love that song.
They all have great openings.
The blues ain't nothing but a good man feeling bad!....
And good people treated bad as well , know where an who it came from .Much respect blues lover
For sure tell em how you feel
Patty Selma: That comment was coined by BB King, not Tony Conner.
Here is the entire comment "The Blues ain't nothing but a good man feeling bad". "Ya know, Country music is a white man's Blues".
truth baby, truth!!!!!!!
@@bobbywilhelm6670 actually country music is a fusion of blues and celtic music., besides if you do some research you'll find that some of the early pioneers of country music were black. Music is for everyone.
You know this man has never got the recognition he deserves. You always hear of BB King, Steve Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Howling Wolf and many more, but rarely you hear Otis Rush,s name. Not saying anything bad about the other musicians, but Otis Rush deserves to be on that list. The man's voice and guitar skills were awesome. R.I.P. Otis Rush
Look at all the squares in the audience
Stevie Ray obviously could play the blues....But Never came across as Authentic to me...merely Imitating .He played to impress and it didn't come from his heart.
Eric Clapton has praised him non-stop since the 60s.
I have to laugh when I see those lists of the greatest blues singers and they list Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix and guys like Otis Rush, Junior Parker or Magic Sam get no mention. Its more like the most famous blues singers the average white guy can think of.
WORD ! All of their music helped form my life !🙏✌🏻🎸😎
RIP Otis Rush who died September 29, 2018. He was a true blues legend.
:(
Need more goodness in the world
E.S.P. on spontaneously watching this on 9/29/2020
May his tears be wiped away by Almighty God!
God bless a Legend
Thank you, black America, for all that you have contributed to music
thank you UK for noticing them and giving them the attention the US wouldn't give them.
We repayed the favor by electing the most anti black president in modern history. trump will destroy our entire country.😊
Black isn't a race. They are, in fact, North Indians descendants of Olmec and Mayan civilization depicted with chocolate skin and twisted wooly hair on American lands for over 1,000 years. North/South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama called West India.
Naturally talented people. Given by The Most High!!!🎉🎉
That voice man. His phrasing and guitar playing are just immaculate.
facts
No pedals, no shredding, no wall of speakers: the raw, true blues !
What's wrong with those things?
Gage Amonette nothing lmao wtf this guy talking ab
Cool Rene gets it.
It's how I've always preferred to play, just plugged straight into a great tube amp
Hendrix was not using any pedals when he was playing the chitterlin' circut...., I don't think there were too many pedals as we know those of today before the 1960s except for the tremelo and maybe the volume pedal.
I'm from Northeastern region of India and been into soul and R&B since 1974. However very few records were available in our city. This is Music'!!🙏🏻🖤🌹
This is the genius that inspired my late great friend Michael Bloomfield. Otis could make the guitar sound like a blues piano. RIP my friend.😢 Otis, along with the late, great, Pete "Guitar" Lewis, inspired me to pursue the guitar too. I'm now nearly 80 years young, and to me the world just ain't the same without them being here in it.😢
I thought it was BB but I guess that was wrong. Mike left us way too soon. Left some great music behind though.
Otis´guitar never sounded like a piano... whatcha smokin man.. and your "late great friend MB" is another BS fairy tale ;) dude...
@@tomasvanecek8626sorry buddy but guitar can play piano parts as a substitute. Michael Bloomfield is fine artist.
... God bless u Angel ... ❤❤❤
Mike was great, sad about the junk. he was troubled, but boy, could he play guitar.
Saw him live, he walked out in a cowboy hat, boots, playing a ES 335 through a mesa boogie amp, the glasses were shaking at the bar, he lit it up with the slow burning notes of a genius. He was a bad ass man, serious and sincere.
I was at his condo on the 19th floor on Irving Park & Michigan one afternoon when he decided to fire that Mesa Boogie up and give the entire building a short free concert. His neighbors were very unhappy with him for doing that.
@@bobbybluz1 haha legend
i saw him live as well, and that is very much like what happened that night in Chicago. Oh, must have been close to thirty years ago or so. At his best, there was no one better than Otis Rush. This performance on the video, well, I had to pick myself up off the floor after hearing it for the first time... just knocked me out. Wish I could remember the club where I saw him; maybe "Wise Fools" or "Kingston Mines" one of those places back in the day....
I miss the old days when you could see/hear legends like this in ordinary blues clubs and theaters in Chicago... Otis Rush, Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland, Buddy Guy, so many great names....
@@bobbybluz1 Hahaha! You never know when you might get inspired! When and where makes no difference. Gawd bless that man! The neighbors can get done. All I'm saying.
@@GeorgiaBoy1961 He played B.L.U.E.S.on Halsted in'84 and B.L.U.E.S ETC in about 88. Also saw him open for Los Lobos at the Riviera around that same time.
Good lord, you showed me Zeppelin, now I find the roots. Beautiful 🙏🏻
You can UA-cam Zep blues songs origins and see/ hear the original blues artist. I’ve done it. Beautiful rabbit hole to go down😎🎶🖕🏽🔥💯
@@Mr.Grinch510
Another sleepless night well spent!
When he hits that "WEEEEEELLLL..." in the beginning it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck....and I'm bald
LOL...I hear you!
If you liked that, check out Slade doing "Get Down and Get With It".....Amazing vocal !
I'm bald as a bowling ball too and this does it to me too!
Otis is bald too. Y’all have that in common.
Lmao 👍🏻
The glasses, the hair, the shirt, the tie, the sweater - on the hottest day of the year Otis is nothing but cool...
Sort of 1960"s Collegiate attire-School of the blues
Elvis comes to mind
One of the most underated blues guitarists . And that voice is just crazy . Fantastic ! I'm guessing Robert Plant heard this version of I Can't Quit You and ran with it
Otis Rush may have been criminally-underrated by the public, but the cats - the real cats like Stevie Ray Vaughn - they knew how great he was. SRV's group, "Double Trouble" was named after an Otis Rush song, in fact. Speaking of underrated, Rush's 1976 recording, "Right Place, Wrong Time," is simply sublime. It contains some of his best playing, bar none, and stands up right alongside his best early work. Rush just had the most-beautiful vibrato; when he'd shake a note on his guitar, no one could make it sound quite like him. When he played, you knew instantly who is was - that's the mark of greatness.
@@GeorgiaBoy1961 Agreed.. He had absolutely the best vibrato of any blues guitarist I've ever heard and his voice.. omg. He's not underrated by musicians like myself at all.
@@ggamos9831 - He was amazing, no question. All of the cats thought so, even the ones who didn't play blues music.
"underated " ??? by who ? rolling stone magazine ...har har hee hyuk
Robert probably sold his soul over this very recording...
The Blues is the roots....everything else is the Fruit
perhaps
absolutely
Jazz is a worthy descendant of the blues!!
Right On!
descendant or ascendant?
Ha. I was 40 when I left my last comment, and I'm 54 now. But while time may pass, this never gets old. Music really doesn't get much better than this.
Dang! Man, I second with what you said.
Life's a quick trip
When I watch Chicago blues videos and these old bands I wonder wtf happen to the world that we don’t get even a third of the talent of those guys nowadays.
Same here , I find a great blues singer / player and then realize how long he’s been gone with nothing to replace him 😎
Albert King , BB King, Chuck Berry, Hubert Sumlin, Lightning Slim, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Curtis Mayfield, Lowell Fulson, Little Walter, Johnny Jenkins, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters , Albert Collins , Earl Hooker, Johnny 'guitar' Watson, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reid, Young Buddy Guy , T-Bone Walker, Ike Turner, Lightning Hopkins, Earl King, Freddie King, Robert Jnr. Lockwood, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lonnie Johnson, Pee Wee Crayton, Little Walter, Clarence 'gatemouth' Brown,
Son House, Guitar Slim, Elmore James, Otis Rush, Young BB King.
You're welcome guys
let the greats live on.
Son house ,Charlie Paton , Charlie Christian , blind lemon Jefferson , reverend Gary Davis
Memphis slim, little Johnny Jones, luther tucker, Willie Johnson, pat hare, Jr Parker, frank frost, Sam Carr, homesick James, Magic Sam, magic slim, sunnyland slim, james cotton, byther Smith, big mama thorton, jb Lenoir, jb Hutto, snooky Pryor, sonny terry, brownie McGhee, Fred McDowell, sleepy john Estes, bo diddley, Jimmy Roger's, Otis Spann, Otis smothers, big Walter Horton, Jesse fuller, furry Lewis, harmonica Smith, Morris pejoe, slim harpo, Wilbert Harrison, big Joe turner, Pinetop Perkins, Billy boy Arnold, big boy Crudup, champion Jack Dupree, ivory Joe hunter, Johnny Young, Leroy Washington, Louis brooks, guitar gable, Matt guitar Murphy, lonesome sundown, whispering Smith, Roy Perkins, yank Rachell, kc Douglas, Johnny Copeland, Fred below, Eddie king, Lafayette Leake, odie Payne, Milton rector, AL Duncan, Eddie Boyd, Louis and Dave Myers, Jack Myers, Jimmy Dawkins, Lt Smith, big boy spires, Willie Smith, Johnny Williams, Jimmy McCracklin, Amos Milburn, peg leg Sam, hound dog Taylor, buster brown, brewer Phillips, Joe Hill Louis.
Hopefully people do more than just look at these names. I hope you look them up and read their stories and listen to their music.
U forgot Hendrix. He epitomized the blues
Janis Joplin?
Django rindheart
Plant and Page loved all the real blues men , enough said.
+chris knevil but didn't give them credit!
He loved them SO much that they never credited the source material or gave anyone money until they had to go to court.
chris knevil: They loved 'em alright. They just didn't want to pay them!
Chris Knevil Yeah right....
You don't love anybody when you STEAL from them and don't give THEM credit. This is why you didn't see Led Zeppelin bonding with the bluesmen like others did: THE ANIMALS, THE YARDBIRDS, THE ROLLING STONES, MIKE BLOOMFIELD, JOHNNY WINTER ETC.. All those names mentioned really respected Blues, unlike Jimmy and Plant. That's why those older blues guys didn't mind sharing the spotlight with them.
Led Zeppelin got taken to court by WILLIE DIXON for fucks sake! The godfather of BLUES.
Of course they did. Just not enough to hurt there own personal aspirations or finances. Willie Dixon may have taken them to court but Zepp ripped Whole Lotta Love off the Small Faces 1st album. They ripped Mayall's arrangement of I Can't Quit You Baby from the Crusade album and stole obscure lyrics from Moby Grape for some of Since I've been lovin' You! Everybody stole from everybody else. Cream, for example. Did well out of I'm So Glad, but they also picked up the tab for Skip James' medical care before he died! There's the rub. Its about 'paying dues'. Something Zepp never really got the hang of. They were all about 'hey look at us'!!! What kind of Charlatans would think of renaming Howlin Wolf's Killing Floor and crediting its existence to themselves?
Gotta love that introduction by Roosevelt Sykes, another underrated Blues musician.
100% agreed with you.. Roosevelt Sykes, Willie Dixon..
If Otis had sung that opening note at The Apollo Theatre the crowd would have gone haywire. One of the all-time blues greats.
Otis Rush helped shape Chicago's West Side blues sound with his highly expressive guitar playing. This is wonderful!!
Was he in Chicago with Muddy Water and John Lee Hooker and them in the late 50s?
@@blaquenguni9249 I believe he was!
mike bloomfield and the others were inspired by otis rush, otis was a real genius
@@blaquenguni9249duh
@blaquenguni9249 both on Cadillac records. Led zeppelin stole whole sound from Willie dixon, the producer
If the definition of the Blues had a picture, you'd probably see Otis Rush. Damn he was good!
No auto tune or trickery here. Real music played by real people...
Jake Jacobs You had to have talent, because there was no way around it back then.
Yeah! There used to be Real people everywhere!
I firmly believe mistakes during live performances that are embraced or gracefully corrected by the talent harnessed by real musicians is what music is and always will be.
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Michael Williams sure thing man, why not. Love from India :D
If it weren't for Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, the Doors, the Rolling Stones and many others we may not know hardly any these old blues legends......RIP Otis
Extremely true statement. British invasion saved the blues.
True dat! Love Otis’ version here written by Willie Dixon. Soulful vocals & tasty guitar licks. Go Otis ❤
rock was the newspaper headlining the bluez .. and the cowboys were first to cry their songs .. america
..it's not a real true
And that’s a damn shame. This is American music. The British shouldn’t have had to introduce Americans to their own damn music.
That man, that voice and that guitar were just magic!
You had me at "Weelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll" !!!
Man I clicked the like button before he got through that Wellll!
Absolutely!
@@crnkspinnr5863 Me too 🎸😁🙌🏽🎙️✨‼️
THIS SONG MADE ME CALL MY MAMA AND SAY " LISTEN TO THIS!" ( SHE SCREAMED OUT LOUD TOO!!)
I love this video. I watch it often. The performance is awesome, but it's the audience that always gets me.
AMAZING. Soul and feeling, what it's all about.
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Dam straight!
Amen the
241 dislikes!! Your all nuts!! He was one of the best singer's ever!! even today.find me some one ..you wont.❤🇺🇸🎸😎🖖
Its the white supremacists prez Obama's election and re election woke them up from their american dream.A fast shrinking minority this is the foundation of modern music ,even shredding a LA jimi.
Totally flabbergasted too that 241 people disliked it,always loved the blues from a really young age,and many years later I sang in a blues band..
@@joaniebarc6763 Idiot
You forgot to add that Otis Rush was one of the best blues guitarists ever!
@@TheGreatToucan yes he surely was!! I'm a vocalist an I'm always drawn to a good voice..especially his..tremendous✊❤🇺🇸
That is one of the best one liners in the whole blues catalogue.........."i cannot quit you baby , but i got to put you down for a while ". Just wonderful , love BB King singing this .
I saw this in 1966 and, yes, you are right, they were (very) different times! Most people wore suits in those days to go to a concert but I did appreciate what I was witnessing, even then.
lucky you
Thankyou Mr. Willie Dixon for writing and composing some of the greatest music to my ears and soul. Rip Mr. Otis Rush. You are legendary.
Dixon never composed anything my gosh .. cos no one ever "composed" the blues... this tired shlt is getting so old
@@tomasvanecek8626 Oh really? Blues can't be composed? Tell that to Miles Davis. Oh yeah, he's dead. 👌🏼
@@kat1yorkAre you retarded miles Davis was jazz😂
All of this done in a cardigan sweater. That man was on fire!
Literally sweats at 4:50
I'm 56 years old this is the first time I've heard this version. Oh my goodness I have no idea except drink a beer and listen
Thank you, UA-cam, for reminding us that rock and roll is black music.
Come on DJ don’t be one-sided all races play rock ‘n’ roll
Solo sus orígenes, los blancos lo pasaron a otro nivel...!!!!
We know. Everything is appropriation in your eyes as long as whitey has any connection to it 🙄
@@joseluisriosvelasco1753 racist horseshit
For as kick ass as the opening vocal is, the second chorus of his guitar solo might be even better.
No flying senselessly through as many notes as possible, no pyrotechnics, no bullshit. Just well-chosen notes played well with a really nice tone and vibrato. Bravo, indeed.
I’ve been to a few open air blues shows in the last 20 years. They were like this “click”. Most of them played the same expensive guitars. (Can’t remember the name of them, seems like they were some kind of hollow metal body guitar). Anyway, they played the same chords and progressions, more of a modern style, I guess. It seemed as though they were playing more towards each other, showing off their chops, rather than okaying to the audience. My point is, it wasn’t anything like the good old blues roots. The leads all sounded generic and lifeless. Unlike Otis Rush, Jimi Hendrix, Mike Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop, Clapton, Keef, and so many more.
No pedals, no autotuner, no pitch corrector
A pure raw force of nature that makes my hair stand
No long blonde hair or tight jeans either.
Jimmy /age and Robert Plant actually put their name on Willie Dixon's songs.
Straight out entitled thieves.
I am a zeppelin fan and I am so pleased to see how accurately Jimmy Page stayed with this
Tell Page give song credits
@@johneltringham5975
I think anyone who is either a big fan of blues or LZ know which songs, or the elements of songs in lyric or structure that were begged, borrowed, or stolen by them. That has been going on since the inception of music, especially in the blues genre. Robert Johnson was a master thief, almost everyone of the recorded songs in his catalog were done before by other bluesmen, he made some changes in rythem, tempo, or lyrics.
MAN. ANOTHER GREAT SONG ZEP STOLLLLLLLLLE. OUCH.
@@johneltringham5975 He did. On Led Zeppelin 1. It says Willie Dixon.
@@bettyscoggins7769 Taking nothing from this great version by Otis, Led Zeppelin didn't steal it - they perfected it!
I'm so amazed at how every blues guitarist is unique in vocals and guitar and makes it their own.
DAMN!!!
Respect the real rock stars, long before these fools today
One of the few things UA-cam is good for: seeing these blues giants live in action.
If you don't like the blues. You must have a hole in your soul.
I know that's right! 👊🏻
Rest easy, bluesman.
...and well earned.
☮️☮️💜💜
I swear i have to cry every time i hear this exact recording - he delivers right into the heart
Dang. That guitar tone and phrasing.
I remember Otis when I first started playing in the late 1950s He was The Man!!!
Now I see where Jimmy Paige got some of his Blues guitar licks !
It ain't just Page brother, he taught Jimi how to play!
Probably was in the audience!?!
Or maybe all of them?
Clapton was a big fan of Otis Rush's Cobra Records releases too, the guitar and vocal style. Listen to Clapton covering "Double Trouble" on his album, and then compare to Otis Rush's 1950's Cobra label release of the same song.
That first note out of his mouth is a stunner! What a fantastic singer!
He killed it.
Damn...even this man's blues have the blues...he is amazing and I've never heard of him before now...and that's a shame bc the man can sing n play like nobody's bidness!!❤
That opening note sent shivers through my spine!!!
An underappreciated great soul singing bluesman.
hey man , who else is here from the year 3247 ? . I'm visiting from the future . This is great stuff. Thanking you as a lover of the blues travelling time warp goes .
Great performance by Otis Rush. Wooden audience.
Fake Appellation hahahaa! aint that the truth...
If it's in Europe, or especially Sweden, they treat the blues guys the same way they treat classical musicians. I used to think they were corpses, but they just have a lot of reverence.
Fake Appellation what you expect , all white audience, not one soul between them all!
Matt Walker ..true. actually listened and maintained a modicum
Me as I sit here totally still in awe... .... ... wooden
This Gentleman makes the performance look so easy, so relaxed & laid back... the epitome of cool.
Led Zeppelin was a great cover band. ❤
Cheers to a great blues man. Layin it down in the big show in the sky. Otis Rush
The more music "progresses", the further away we get from this. I find it sad. Nostalgia, though I wasn't there.
The music of this era was real. The music of today is plastic.
@@bobaldo2339 They said exactly that about using electric guitars instead of, uh, trombones...?
That opening note, though!
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What a man, what a GUITAR PLAYER, WHAT A SINGER! OTIS RUSH, BABY.
That timeless, swanky guitar tone.. will never die. The legendary Otis Rush.. one of the greatest Chicago Bluesmen, period. Play On, Mr. Rush ~ (4•29•1934 - 9•29•2018)
It’s almost too damn easy to hear his absolute influence on guys like Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton; it’s so obvious to me that it hurts!! This guy takes the term “legend” to new heights. Otis is definitely among the greatest blues legends, easy. 😎
Right on!
I was thinking the exact same thing!
My thoughts exactly. Srv for sure
@TheGraveyardDog...And especially on Mike Bloomfield. I used to get high with Mike and many other musicians back in the day. When he first heard Otis Rush it was if he had been struck by lightning, but in a good way. He cleaned up well enough and long enough to study him. I'm almost 80 and was there right in the middle of that wonderful era and wonderful time to be alive.🙂
Yes, Otis is definitely among the greatest blues legends!!!
Page or Clapton are not good examples, I think. Ok, perhaps they covered his songs...
Otis was unique! Like Albert Collins or Freddie King, for example.
Great to see the Rolling Stones honoured Otis, by including this on their new album "Blue & Lonesome"
Why is there no standing ovation for this. Stunning performance all around..
Well.... see the audience.........
Too many squares in the atmosphere.
@@leogolivewhite audiences hadn’t loosened up at this time. Maybe we’ve gotten too loose now.
....brings back memories of me hearing my mom sing the lyrics.....you know I love you baby...my love for you I could never hide....well I love you baby.. you know you're my desire! RIP Mother...I remember this playing on Friday and Saturday nights...I miss those times!!
When ya hear me Moanin and Groanin Baby it Hurts me Deep down Inside.
James Newman my mantra...✌🏽👩🏽🔧
Love it when im reading the comments ..and the lyrics posted are being sung in the video. Serendipity.
This guy was killing it before Dead Zeppelin every played one bar of ICQYB! 75 years old. I had a great teacher John Catalano!
The band is so chill. Lookin' and sounding great. Very creative guitar playing. He doesn't need to impress anybody...he feels his way in. Very cool.
How could there be 146 thumbs down??? He has an amazing voice....sings with such feeling.
SOME DUMB A_ HOLES AINT GOT EARS!!!!!!!
not everyone is born with or even learns good taste...
5 years ago there were definitely 146 idiots
Who cares!!! Be grateful you have an appreciation, the rest is none of your business. Leave those 146 thumbs down right where they are 😂
Disgruntled Led Zeppelin fans who suddenly realized that this wasn't a Led Zeppelin original.
He was the greatest because he sang all out from his heart and before the rest. T U Sir
Man, that looks like the least enthusiastic crowd of all time and he gets up and kills it! 😀🎸
intheblues I know right Shane haha. I think it has a lot to do with respect though from back then. Crowds and people were more polite and respectful in that time.
intheblues 😂😂😂
In the 60's European intellectual elites (more or less) were almost the only audience for blues, and the artists were thankful for that little attention. This was a rare chance for the audience to carefully study the American greats, and what we are seeing is reverence, not lack of interest. They don't want to miss a note. For many this was their first, and possibly only, encounter, and if anyone had shouted out Halleluja, others in the audience would've been enraged with them. To dress well was also a sign of respect. Notice that the artists also dressed well. It's all about understanding the context, which is so foreign to us now. These European tours were also recorded for posterity, something which wasn't happening much at all in the US in 1966. That's why the best videos from then are from European sources who also archived them.
They were all jumping for joy on the inside. People growing up in northern Europe and Scandinavia back then, were raised to not show their emotions, at least not in public.
People then knew how to listen, this is music worth listening to. Majority of crap today is flash, meant to be heard but not listened to.
One of my all time faves in the "west side sound" - which was more influenced by BB Kings/T Bone Walker's style than the south side electrified delta of Muddy, Wolf, Elmore James etc... Not being able to afford horn sections they compensated by cranking their amps and guys like Otis, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Dawkins, Magic Sam etc. created their own unique styles. One bluesman said he would put southpaw Otis Rush's voice and guitar up against anyone in any genre of music and he'd stand his ground. I GOTTA agree with that assessment. So glad I was able to see him perform a few times in my life.- a true treasure in music.
Don't forget Hubert Sumlin he was Howling Wolf's guitarist for a very long time 😎🎶🎶
@ Karl: Otis Rush always had the hippest records. His 1976 recording, "Right Place, Wrong Time" has killer tunes on it, horn charts which are tasty as can be, and a tight band backing him up. And Otis himself never sounded better, in voice or on guitar. I was fortunate to see/hear him live on a number of occasions in his native Chicago, and those are musical memories I cherish. Nothing beats seeing him in a place like Kingston Mines, one of the clubs he used to frequent, or any of the other places around town where the audience was right near the stage. Saw him at giant festivals, too, like Chicago Blues Fest - which was fun - but not as impactful as seeing him up close and personal.
you must be from my home town chi town
@@GeorgiaBoy1961 Wise Fools was more or less his hangout in Chicago.
@@iket.9930- Yes, it certainly was, for good long while. You could see the ads in the "Chicago Reader" for all of the blues clubs famous at the time, Wise Fools among them, and his name would be there. I was too young to catch Otis Rush and the other Chicago West Side blues greats back in the old days, but was fortunate-enough to catch many of them later in their careers, starting in the 1980s. Otis really delivered the goods live; I sure am glad I got to see/hear him play. Also caught him once when he opened for Stevie Ray Vaughn. Of course, his group "Double Trouble," was named for an Otis Rush tune....
LISTEN to his voice, he just SMOKES cats like Robert Plant like a DUTCH MASTER'S CIGAR!
This is pure bliss. I've replayed it at least 10 times. Beautiful.
Man!...What a powerful soulful voice!...First time seeing Otis Rush performing this soul classic! Heard this a few times but had no idea that this was Otis Rush on the vocals and guitar! Down home blues forever, y'all!
Otis Rush was the complete package when it comes to being a great blues musician. His voice was famous for its expressiveness, and so was his guitar playing.
Rush's style was unorthodox on the instrument, but he turned it into a virtue: He learned to play with the order of the strings inverted from the normal low E being the highest on the neck and the high E being the lowest; consequently, his style - which seems easy to imitate - is very unique and unique-sounding. His vibrato was famous among guitarists for its beauty.
Though Rush wasn't as well-known for his instrumentals as some other bluesmen, he did several numbers of this kind over his career, and these, too, were classics. "Easy Go" - one of these from his 1970s LP "Right Place, Wrong Time," became a staple of his live shows.
Rush was also a talented composer - and a number of his tunes have found a permanent home in the canon of modern blues. Tunes he either wrote and performed, or songs by others which he made famous. Stevie Ray Vaughn was so taken by Rush that he named his band "Double Trouble" after one of his songs.
I saw Rush perform live a number of times, but perhaps the most-memorable is when he opened for SRV when Vaughn appeared at the old Poplar Creek outdoor music theater in the 1980s, and then came out and guested with Stevie Ray for an extended segment in his show. The audience could tell how much they dug being up there and playing together.
Thank you to the individual(s) who posted this! Is this recording available commercially?
What an Incredible Voice!!
A heart stopper from the get go. Breaks my heart that we have lost many of these incredible artists.
Incredible singer ! and guitarist
So clean, one of the best performances, Ive ever seen
That first howl!!! DAMN!!! All I can say is, it was a good thing I was already sitting down!
Reaches right into your chest and takes your breath away! Undeniably the BLUES!!! ♫♪
how could anyone not like this..that first rip.. hurt drayton to the Core..if you only seen this woman.. lordy mercy..lol 🎶✨💫🌠💥💯
Love the close-voiced Eb11th chord thing he did on the first time through the solo section. Innovative solo player.
He was underrated. A great bluesman who could really sing and play!
What an effortless singing, dude is a monster vocal 👏
I could sit and watch and hear him all day
What a voice
Fantastic
I love Fred Below's sound. I think he's hitting rim shots on the toms. It's a great sound.
His work with the Aces set the standard for Blues drumming. He's also the drummer on most of Chuck Berry's 50's hits.
Been a fan since '65. Always will be RIP John
That brilliant howing screaming shout from my cousin Otis Rush woke people up in the next town to my town
Goosebumps. It's doesn't get anny better. Sad to see him in a wheelchair these days after a stroke. He was the best.
Man, Otish Rush had a great powerful voice! His long song first verb "I" is stunning!
that "well" in the beginning is longer than any quarantine the coronavirus could ever put us through
That's the most powerful opening vocal line ever. Otis Rush has such a sweet vibrato.
I love the blues very much, Willie Dixon and Otis rush, i Heard them because led Zeppelin congratulations i love rock and their roots
what a double threat. He could wail on guitar an vocals. TALENT.
Smoke a joint, drink some bourbon and listen to the blues ✌️
or just think about your useta be...
Naa old fred don't need no booze or drugs to relax and enjoy....
Everyday of the week if I could.
@@fredsausage2688 Thank you for the information, we didn't care 👍
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