Otis Rush

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1982

First Recording: 1956

Previously Considered? Yes  what's this?

Otis Rush
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I Can't Quit You Baby (1956)☆☊

Otis Rush @ Wikipedia

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Influence on Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 09/22/2013 @ 20:28pm

RIP Otis Rush!

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 09/30/2018 @ 12:05pm

R.I.P. to the great Otis Rush, one of the many fifties oversights by the HOF!

Posted by Shrek on Sunday, 09/30/2018 @ 18:48pm

The now late Otis Rush was a big Influence on Stevie Ray Vaughan, Peter Green and Eric Clapton. And he is still not in the Hall. SMH

Posted by The Dude on Monday, 10/1/2018 @ 10:22am

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

Otis Rush, Seminal Chicago Blues Guitarist, Dead at 84
Key architect of ‘West Side Sound’ died from complications related to a stroke

Posted by Roy on Monday, 10/1/2018 @ 12:38pm

First to record "I Can't Quit You Baby" by Willie Dixon and 'ripped' by led zeppelin
Penned "Double Trouble"...Stevie Ray Vaughn named his band of this Otis Rush song

Posted by Lenn Schwartz on Thursday, 01/9/2025 @ 13:29pm

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