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Otis Rush
I Cant Quit You Baby: Cobra Sessions 1956-58
Genres: Blues, Pop

Track Listings (27) - Disc #1
1. I Can't Quit You Baby - Otis Rush, Dixon, Willie [1]
2. Sit Down Baby - Otis Rush, Bendo
3. Violent Love - Otis Rush, Dixon, Willie [1]
4. My Love Will Never Die - Otis Rush, Dixon, Willie [1]
5. Groaning the Blues - Otis Rush, Dixon, Willie [1]
6. If You Were Mine - Otis Rush, Dixon, Willie [1]
7. Love That Woman - Otis Rush, Leake
8. Jump Sister Bessie - Otis Rush, Dixon, Willie [1]
9. Three Times a Fool - Otis Rush, Rush, Otis
10. She's a Good 'Un - Otis Rush, Eskridge
11. It Takes Time - Otis Rush, Rush, Otis
12. Checking on My Baby - Otis Rush, Rush, Otis
13. Double Trouble - Otis Rush, Rush, Otis
14. Keep on Loving Me Baby - Otis Rush, Rush, Otis
15. All Your Love (I Miss Loving) - Otis Rush, Rush, Otis
16. My Baby's a Good 'Un - Otis Rush, Dixon, Willie [1]
17. I Can't Quit You Baby [Alternate Take] - Otis Rush, Dixon, Willie [1]
18. I Can't Quit You Baby [Alternate Take] - Otis Rush, Dixon, Willie [1]
19. Sit Down Baby [Alternate Take] - Otis Rush, Bendo
20. My Love Will Never Die [Alternate Take] - Otis Rush, Dixon, Willie [1]
21. Groaning the Blues [Alternate Take] - Otis Rush, Dixon, Willie [1]
22. Groaning the Blues [Alternate Take] - Otis Rush, Dixon, Willie [1]
23. Three Times a Fool [Alternate Take] - Otis Rush, Rush, Otis
24. She's a Good 'Un [Alternate Take] - Otis Rush, Eskridge
25. Keep on Loving Me Baby [Alternate Take] - Otis Rush, Rush, Otis
26. Double Trouble [Alternate Take] - Otis Rush, Rush, Otis
27. Double Trouble [Alternate Take] - Otis Rush, Rush, Otis

CD Details

All Artists: Otis Rush
Title: I Cant Quit You Baby: Cobra Sessions 1956-58
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: P-Vine Japan
Release Date: 5/15/2006
Album Type: Import
Genres: Blues, Pop
Styles: Chicago Blues, Electric Blues, Modern Blues
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 4995879240380

CD Reviews

Essential!

Docendo Discimus | Vita scholae | 03/22/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is one of a dozen absolutely essential purchases if you're into classic Chicago blues. Or rather, the music is. Whether you get this P-Vine CD or Paula/Varese's better-known "Essential Collection: The Classic Cobra Recordings 1956-1958" really isn't a matter of life or death, although this one does feature three more alternates, and the fidelity might just be the tiniest bit better.

But either way - this is the stuff. In his mid-twenties at the time, singer/guitarist Otis Rush committed his lasting legacy to tape for Eli Toscano's Cobra label, a stirring collection of powerful, swaggering mid-tempo grinds and intense slow blues like the Willie Dixon-penned "I Can't Quit You Baby".

The material is split about evenly between Rush's own songs and the compositions of the great Willie Dixon, and Rush's material is actually every bit as great as veteran songwriter Dixon's. Just listen to Rush's powerful, expressive tenor voice and sizzling lead guitar on the classics "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)", "Three Times a Fool", and "Keep Loving Me Baby".

Rush is left-handed, and plays upside-down in the manner of Albert King, and some people like to cite this as a possible reason for his unusually incendiary, imaginitive lead guitar playing. Me, I think Otis Rush would have been great no matter which hand he had played with.

His brand of late-50s Chicago blues was generally a bit less rough and boisterous than the music of Howlin' Wolf, but not as polished as that of B.B. King, and he was a major source of inspiration to Stevie Ray Vaughan, who named his band after Rush's song "Double Trouble", and did a great rendition of "All Your Love".

If talent was everything and luck and timing never mattered, Otis Rush would currently be hailed as the reigning king of Chicago blues, and this is his lasting legacy. If he had never recorded another note, his reputation would be intact based solely on these eight singles.

Highly, highly recommended."