Grammy-winning blues legend Otis Rush dead at 84


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Legendary Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush, whose passionate, jazz-like song shabby artists from Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton to a stone rope Led Zeppelin, died Saturday during a age of 84, his longtime manager said.


Rush succumbed to complications from a cadence he suffered in 2003, manager Rick Bates said.


Born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, Rush staid in Chicago as an adult and began personification a internal clubs, wearing a cowboy shawl and infrequently personification his guitar upside down for effect.


He catapulted to general celebrity in 1956 with his initial recording on Cobra Records of I Can’t Quit You Baby, which reached No. 6 on a Billboard RB charts.





He was a pivotal designer of a Chicago “West Side Sound” in a 1950s and 1960s, that modernized normal blues to deliver some-more of a jazzy, amplified sound.


“He was one of a final good blues guitar heroes. He was an electric God,” pronounced Gregg Parker, CEO and a owner of a Chicago Blues Museum.


Rush desired to play to live audiences, from tiny clubs on a West Side of Chicago to sole out venues in Europe and Japan.


“He was aristocrat of a mountain in Chicago from a late 1950s into a 1970s and even a 80s as a live artist,” pronounced Bates.


But he got reduction inhabitant and general courtesy than some other blues musicians since he wasn’t a large promoter.





“He elite to go out and play and go behind and nap in his possess bed,” pronounced Bates. “He was not a uncover business guy.”


Rush won a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Recording in 1999 for Any Place I’m Going, and he was inducted into a Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1984.


In one of his final appearances on theatre during a Chicago Blues Festival in 2016, Rush watched underneath a black Stetson shawl from a wheelchair as he was celebrated by a city of Chicago, according to a Chicago Tribune.


He was survived by his mother Masaki Rush, 8 children and countless grandchildren and good grandchildren, according to a family statement.



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