Blues great Otis Rush, who helped shape the Chicago blues sound, has died. The guitarist's unique style of soloing and his powerful tenor voice deeply influenced a generation of blues and rock ...

Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush has died at the age of 84 as a result of complications related to a stroke he suffered in 2003, his wife announced. The left-handed player helped define the West Side ...

CHICAGO (CBSLA/AP) — Legendary Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush, whose passionate, jazz-tinged music influenced artists from Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton to the rock band Led Zeppelin, died ...

Chicago bluesman Otis Rush passed away last Saturday, September 29th. In his honor during my blues show on Saturday, October 6th, at 11pm, you'll hear some of the music he recorded over his long ...

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In 1969, after nearly 14 years of constant gigging in small blues clubs and cutting scorching singles for obscure labels, songs that received limited radio play but were greedily snatched up by young ...

Otis Rush released some of the most harrowing, emotionally intense blues ever recorded during his late-50s tenure at Chicago’s Cobra label. Though he continued to perform and record, sometimes ...

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Guitarist Otis Rush helped shape the Chicago blues sound, and deeply influenced a generation of musicians including Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy. He died on Saturday at the age of 84 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Legendary Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush, whose passionate, jazz-influenced sound influenced generations of musicians, has died. He was 84. His longtime manager Rick Bates says Rush ...