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IMPORT (England)

MONO

VPI MACHINE CLEANED & PLAYTESTED

Band/Artist: Otis Rush

Album Title: Groaning The Blues The Cobra Recordings 1956-1958

Featuring: Walter Horton, Red Holloway, Lafayette Leake, Wayne Bennett, Willie Dixon, Al Duncan

Catalogue Number: LP 560

Year/Record Company: 1980 Flyright Records

1 LP – Mono – 12 inch vinyl record – 33 1/3

Special Note: The tracks on this album are the same as those used on previous compilations. However, wherever possible, remastering has been from the master tape transfers or clean condition 78s. On two tracks, speed errors in earlier compilations have been corrected and on two other tracks, the complete unedited version is used for the first time on record. (from the back cover)

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This import LP record album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

LP Condition: excellent

Shine: almost all

Scratches: a few feather

Label Wear: minimal (completely readable)

Labels: see photos

Spindle Hole Wear: minimal

LP Sound: near mint (no skips, no hang-ups, no missing audio)

Surface Noise: very minimal

Jacket Condition: very good+ (completely readable)

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: very minimal (no splits, no tape)

Back Ring Wear: very light

Front Ring Wear: very light

Ink or pencil marks: none

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stamps/Stickers: “Down Home Music” price sticker on back, upper right corner of jacket; sticker removed from front, upper right corner of jacket (see photos)

Sleeve Type: blank sleeve

Sleeve Wear: minimal

Cover: Sylvia Pitcher

Liner Notes: Simon A Napier, Bruce Bastin

Side One

Double Trouble

Jump Sister Bessie

She’s A Good ‘Un – A

Checking On My Baby

Sit Down Baby

Love That Woman

Keep On Loving Me Baby – B

Keep On Loving Me Baby – A

My Baby Is A Good ‘Un

If You Were Mine

Side Two

I Can’t Quit You Baby

All Your Love

Groaning The Blues

It Takes Time

Violent Love

Three Times A Fool

My Love Will Never Die

She’s A Good ’Un – B

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.

The son of farmers Julia Campbell Boyd and Otis C. Rush, Rush was born near Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1934. At the age of eight, Rush taught himself how to play guitar; he also sang in local church choirs. Rush moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1948/49 and, after being inspired by Muddy Waters, made a name for himself playing in blues clubs on the South and West Side of the city. During this period he formed his own group, initially under the name Little Otis. From 1956 to 1958, he recorded for the independent label Cobra Records and released eight singles, some featuring Ike Turner or Jody Williams on guitar. 

Cobra Records went bankrupt in 1959, and Rush signed a recording contract with Chess Records in 1960. He recorded eight tracks for the label, four of which were released on two singles that year. Rush went into the studio for Duke Records in 1962, but only one single, "Homework" backed with "I Have to Laugh", was issued by the label. Rush began playing in other cities in the United States and in Europe during the 1960s, notably with the American Folk Blues Festival.

Rush was elected to the Blues Hall of Fame in 1984. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Rush number 53 on its 100 Greatest Guitarists list. The Jazz Foundation of America honored Rush with a Lifetime Achievement Award on April 20, 2018 "for a lifetime of genius and leaving an indelible mark in the world of blues and the universal language of music." Rush died on September 29, 2018, from complications of a stroke. 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." (source: Wikipedia)

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