DER US-AMERIKANISCHE BLUESGITARRIST UND –SÄNGER OTIS RUSH IST GESTORBEN

01.10.2018 Der am 29. April 1934 in Philadelphia (Mississippi) geborene US-amerikanische Bluessänger und –gitarrist Otis Rush (Bild) ist am 29. September 2018 gestorben. Rush wurde als Mitglied der Bluesszene Chicagos weitherum berühmt, gewann 1999 einen Grammy für das Album "Any Place I'm Goin" und wurde vom US-Musikmagazin "Rolling Stone" unter die 100 "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" gewählt.

Foto: Masahiro Sumori, 2002 - Lizenz: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en - Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orush.jpg

Otis Rush, Seminal Chicago Blues Guitarist, Dead at 84

Rush became a staple of the Chicago scene in the late Fifties and early Sixties, partnering first with Cobra Records, which was also home to artists like Magic Sam and Buddy Guy. Their take on the blues would prove to be a revelation for a generation of artists to follow, while Rush would become a totem for countless rock guitarists (he was placed at Number 53 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists).

Jon Blistein

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/otis-rush-chicago-blues-guitarist-dead-731136/

Rush exemplified the modernized minor key urban blues style with his slashing, amplified jazz-influenced guitar playing, high-strained passionate vocals and backing by a full horn section," the statement on his website read. "Rush's first recording in 1956 on Cobra Records 'I Can't Quit You Baby' reached No.6 on the Billboard R&B Charts and catapulted him to international acclaim. He went on to record a catalog of music that contains many songs that are now considered blues classics."

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/otis-rush-dead/

Otis Rush, Legendary Chicago Blues Guitarist

Legendary Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush, whose passionate, jazz-tinged music influenced artists from Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton to the rock band Led Zeppelin, died (...).

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8477569/otis-rush-legendary-chicago-blues-guitarist-dies-at-84

Rush's sound and style influenced rock and blues artists from Eric Clapton to Stevie Ray Vaughan to Jimmy Page

Rush's solo style was characterized by a wide vibrato that was a product of his unusual approach-like Albert King and, after him, Jimi Hendrix, Rush was a lefty who played a right-handed guitar flipped over and upside-down, with the low E string on the bottom and the treble strings on top. He explained the effect that had on his sound to Vintage Guitar in a 1998 interview.

Richard Bienstock

https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/otis-rush-legendary-blues-guitarist-dies-at-84

While Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, his predecessors from the city's South Side, popularized an amplified update of the bare-bones sound of the Mississippi Delta, Mr. Rush's modernized variant - which came to be called the West Side sound because of its prevalence in nightclubs in that part of town - was at once more lyrical and more rhythmically complex.

Bill Friskics-Warren

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/arts/music/otis-rush-dead-chicago-blues-singer-guitarist.html

Der Revoluzzer mit den Feuersaiten

Er hat sie alle beeinflusst: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Duane Allman. Aber mit seiner eigenen Karriere hatte der begnadete Gitarrist Otis Rush meist Pech.

Thomas Klingenmaier

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.legendaerer-bluesgitarrist-otis-rush-gestorben-der-revoluzzer-mit-den-feuersaiten.b1254690-72fd-4375-b40a-46e7f4058e5b.html

Mort du chanteur et guitariste Otis Rush, pionnier du Chicago blues

Il était considéré comme l'un des plus grands interprètes de blues, avec un son si caractéristique qu'il influencera de nombreux musiciens: Otis Rush est décédé samedi 29 septembre à l'âge de 83 ans, a annoncé sa femme. Chanteur et guitariste de blues hors pair, son influence s'est également fait ressentir sur le rock'n'roll.

https://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/musique/jazz-blues/mort-du-chanteur-et-guitariste-otis-rush-pionnier-du-chicago-blues-279989

Audios / Videos:

Otis Rush I Can't Quit You Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy2tEP3I3DM

Led Zeppelin - I Can't Quit You Baby (Otis Rush)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29PSPafL54o

Otis Rush - All Your Love (I Miss Loving) (Cobra 5032)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMdn0EKH7Ys

Otis Rush - Working Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=139&v=yF4lhz0yhHY

Otis Rush - Right Place Wrong Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=39&v=VX4rNTWeWVA