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Another of the blues greats, Otis Rush, passed away over the weekend.    I had gone to Chicago to take a lesson from a blues guy, Paul Kaye, and he said if I want to learn to play blues I should study Otis Rush. 

From the Washington Post, "

"A self-taught, southpaw guitarist who played a right-handed model upside down, Mr. Rush developed a quavering guitar sound and a throaty baritone voice that frequently burst into falsetto. Fusing rhythm-and-blues and the country blues of the Mississippi Delta, he exerted a profound influence on an entire generation of musicians.

Among his chief acolytes were the British guitarists Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, who recorded a cover of Mr. Rush’s 1956 song “I Can’t Quit You Baby” for Led Zeppelin’s debut album. Texas guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan named his rhythm section after the bluesman’s 1958 song "Double Trouble" in which Mr. Rush chronicled the economic anxieties of African Americans on Chicago’s South and West Sides"

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RIP to a truly great man. 

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