Otis Rush (1998) - Any Place I’m Going

Великолепный альбом от Otis Rush.

На этот раз студийная запись 1998 года. Хорошо знающим любителям творчества Otis Rush будет интересно послушать обновленное исполнение старых его хитов. Альбом оставляет хорошее впечатление от услышанного.

Всем любителям Otis Rush советую прибавить этот альбом в свою коллекцию.

Otis Rush is backed (but never swamped) by a solid horn section, and his intense vocals have become a bit darker with age, but his big, expressive singing voice and sizzling guitar work are still his greatest assets. Rush’s lengthy solos on “Looking Back” and “Any Place I’m Going (Beats Any Place I’ve Been)” are deceptively clean and understated, but turn it up a bit and you’ll hear why Otis Rush is considered one of the finest blues guitarists ever to lay hands on a volume knob.

Apart from penning a couple of new songs, Rush also updates his classic “Keep On Loving Me Baby”, complete with a meaty horn riff and a couple of smouldering solos, and other highlights include his supremely confident, well-arranged renditions of “I Got The Blues”, “You Fired Yourself”, the swinging, funky “Have You Ever Had The Blues”, Clay Bingham’s classic “Part Time Love” and the Little Milton-hit “Walking The Back Streets And Crying”.

At 64, Otis Rush obviously hasn’t lost any of his razor-sharp chops, and one can only wonder if he might not have been the man hailed worldwide as the reigning King of the Blues if only fate and various record companies had been kinder to him.
As it is, let us at least call him the King of the West Side, a true blues treasure, the great Otis Rush.

01. You Fired Yourself [0:04:29]
02. Keep On Loving Me Baby [0:06:15]
03. Part Time Love [0:05:50]
04. I Got The Blues [0:04:54]
05. The Right Time [0:05:59]
06. Looking Back [0:06:22]
07. Any Place I’m Going [0:04:39]
08. Laughin’ And Clowin’ [0:04:01]
09. Pride and Joy [0:03:56]
10. Have You Ever Had The Blues [0:03:18]
11. Walking the Back Streets and Crying [0:07:02