Good 'Un's: The Classic Cobra Recordings 1956-1958

by Otis Rush

Good 'Un's: The Classic Cobra Recordings 1956-1958 cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 3 July 2000
  • Label: Westside
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:14:38
  • Community rating: 4.03/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A compilation of Otis Rush's complete Cobra Records recordings of 1956 to 1958, the Chicago sessions produced by Willie Dixon. They include 'I Can't Quit You Baby' and 'Double Trouble', the records that established the intense, minor-key West Side blues guitar style Rush pioneered.

Genres

Descriptors: guitars, bluesy, male-vocals, classic, soulful

Tracklist

  1. I Can't Quit You Baby (3:07)
  2. Sit Down Baby (2:20)
  3. Violent Love (2:25)
  4. My Love Will Never Die (3:07)
  5. Groaning The Blues (3:04)
  6. If You Were Mine (3:06)
  7. Love That Woman (3:01)
  8. Jump Sister Bessie (2:34)
  9. Three Times A Fool (2:50)
  10. She's A Good 'Un (2:49)
  11. It Takes Time (2:49)
  12. Checking On My Baby (2:57)
  13. Double Trouble (2:43)
  14. Keep On Loving Me Baby (2:20)
  15. All Your Love (I Miss Loving) (2:38)
  16. My Baby Is A Good 'Un (2:40)
  17. I Can't Quit You Baby (3:40)
  18. Little Red Rooster (Unissued) (2:21)
  19. Groaning The Blues (3:49)
  20. My Love Will Never Die (Take Unknown) (3:05)
  21. She's A Good 'Un (2:59)
  22. Three Times A Fool (Take Unknown) (3:19)
  23. Double Trouble (5:09)
  24. Sit Down Baby (Take Unknown) (5:46)

Credits

  • Otis Rush - primary artist, vocals, guitar, written-by
  • Chris Bentley - artwork [label art courtesy of]
  • Jools De Vere - design
  • Sylvia Pitcher - photography [all photographs courtesy of]
  • Willie Dixon - written-by
  • Howard Bedno - written-by
  • Lafayette Leake - written-by
  • Eskridge / White - written by

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