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I Can't Quit You Baby: The Complete Cobra Sessions

Search: Groaning The Blues
by: Otis Rush

Release Date February 17, 2003
This is pretty much the essential collection if you want the classic Cobra recordings with all the out takes you'll ever need. Some of these recordings are haunting in a way I've not heard on any other - except maybe Robert Johnson's 'Hellhound on my Trail'. What he did vocally and accoustically, Rush does by stretching the possibilities of the electric guitar and the range of his voice. Listen to 'Double Trouble' or 'My love will never die' - there's some real darkness going on there.

Over the space of a couple of years in the mid-50s Otis raised the stakes substantially. There's a unique atmosphere in these recordings. Even the frankly cheesy 'Violent Love' has a thick smokey sound with that distinctive echo. 'All your Love' ... Read More:

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Good Un's

Search: Groaning The Blues
by: Otis Rush

Release Date July 03, 2000
This is pretty much the essential collection if you want the classic Cobra recordings with all the out takes you'll ever need. Some of these recordings are haunting in a way I've not heard on any other - except maybe Robert Johnson's 'Hellhound on my Trail'. What he did vocally and accoustically, Rush does by stretching the possibilities of the electric guitar and the range of his voice. Listen to 'Double Trouble' or 'My love will never die' - there's some real darkness going on there.

Over the space of a couple of years in the mid-50s Otis raised the stakes substantially. There's a unique atmosphere in these recordings. Even the frankly cheesy 'Violent Love' has a thick smokey sound with that distinctive echo. 'All your Love' ... Read More:

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Essential Collection: The Classic Cobra Recordings 1956-1958

Search: Groaning The Blues
by: Otis Rush

Release Date September 19, 2000
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".

That song was penned by Willie Dixon, as are several of these late-50s singles which Rush recorded for Eli Toscano's Cobra label, but Rush was a more than able composer himself, and he is the man behind some of the best songs on this CD, including "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)", "Three Times A Fool" and "Keep On Loving Me Baby", superb, sophisticated blues tunes which often eclipse Dixon's.

Otis Rush' brand of blues is less rough and boisterous than the music of Howlin' Wolf and less polished than that of B.B. King, and he was a major source of inspiration to Stevie ... Read More:

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From the Cradle [VINYL]

Search: Groaning The Blues
by: Eric Clapton

Release Date September 01, 1994
"All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head; with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave ..."

Summing up his thoughts on a recently failed relationship, Eric Clapton jotted down these words one night in early 1994, and they eventually made their way into the cover booklet of the album he released later that same year, the last line also providing the album's title. And "there's anger and love and fear on this record," Clapton told Billboard Magazine about the self-evaluation he was undergoing at the time, explaining that in recording this album, he had sought to once and for all break the - partially self-imposed - barriers and trappings of fame and fortune, girls and glamour, drugs and booze, in order ... Read More:

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Good Un's

Search: Groaning The Blues
by: Otis Rush

Release Date October 01, 1999
"All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head; with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave ..."

Summing up his thoughts on a recently failed relationship, Eric Clapton jotted down these words one night in early 1994, and they eventually made their way into the cover booklet of the album he released later that same year, the last line also providing the album's title. And "there's anger and love and fear on this record," Clapton told Billboard Magazine about the self-evaluation he was undergoing at the time, explaining that in recording this album, he had sought to once and for all break the - partially self-imposed - barriers and trappings of fame and fortune, girls and glamour, drugs and booze, in order ... Read More:

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An Introduction to Otis Rush

Search: Groaning The Blues
by: Otis Rush

Release Date March 14, 2006
"All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head; with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave ..."

Summing up his thoughts on a recently failed relationship, Eric Clapton jotted down these words one night in early 1994, and they eventually made their way into the cover booklet of the album he released later that same year, the last line also providing the album's title. And "there's anger and love and fear on this record," Clapton told Billboard Magazine about the self-evaluation he was undergoing at the time, explaining that in recording this album, he had sought to once and for all break the - partially self-imposed - barriers and trappings of fame and fortune, girls and glamour, drugs and booze, in order ... Read More:

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Otis Rush, 1956-1958: His Cobra Recordings [CASSETTE]

Search: Groaning The Blues
by: Otis Rush

Release Date October 18, 1994
"All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head; with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave ..."

Summing up his thoughts on a recently failed relationship, Eric Clapton jotted down these words one night in early 1994, and they eventually made their way into the cover booklet of the album he released later that same year, the last line also providing the album's title. And "there's anger and love and fear on this record," Clapton told Billboard Magazine about the self-evaluation he was undergoing at the time, explaining that in recording this album, he had sought to once and for all break the - partially self-imposed - barriers and trappings of fame and fortune, girls and glamour, drugs and booze, in order ... Read More:

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Classic Recordings

Search: Groaning The Blues
by: Otis Rush

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"All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head; with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave ..."

Summing up his thoughts on a recently failed relationship, Eric Clapton jotted down these words one night in early 1994, and they eventually made their way into the cover booklet of the album he released later that same year, the last line also providing the album's title. And "there's anger and love and fear on this record," Clapton told Billboard Magazine about the self-evaluation he was undergoing at the time, explaining that in recording this album, he had sought to once and for all break the - partially self-imposed - barriers and trappings of fame and fortune, girls and glamour, drugs and booze, in order ... Read More: