Otis Rush - Live at Montreux 1986

If you had to explain the blues to someone unfamiliar with it, you might
think about referring that person to a segment in Otis Rush & Friends -
Live at Montreux 1986. When Rush belts out "If I Had Any Sense, I'd Go Back
Home," his world-weary vocal delivery and gritty guitar work encapsulate most of
the traits -- mournful, reflective, honest, resolute, tough -- that make the
blues so enduring.

Otis Rush & Friends - Live at Montreux 1986 showcases one of the
great architects of Chicago's West Side blues. In the mid-1950s, the
Mississippi-born Rush burst on the scene when he wrapped his searing voice
around the Willis Dixon-penned "I Can't Quit You Baby" and subsequently produced
a bona fide classic blues tune. And he has been going strong ever since, having
influenced such blues-rock luminaries as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Santana and
Stevie Ray Vaughan. <...
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