Last week Otis Rush, one of the legendary figures of Chicago blues, died. Not as well know as guitarists such as Muddy Waters and BB King, he was nevertheless probably more influential, especially on rock guitarists from Eric Clapton to Jimmy Page. Chicago blues came out of the Great Migration, when African Americans from the South moved to Northern cities.  Through that migration, the Delta blues, which had originated in Mississippi in the 1920s and 30s, gave way, from the […]

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