Albert King & Otis Rush - Door To Door
Release Date: 1998
Label: MCA/Chess
Genre: Blues
Styles: Soul-Blues, Modern Electric Blues
Review by Frank John Hadley From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
Esquires King and Rush pushed themselves further toward interpretative wisdom and
individuality with the 1960~61 recordings found in this blue-ribbon collection. The
tone in King's low-down voice shifts between sternness and leniency while his
rhythmically staggering guitar distills drama. (Three 1953 Parrot singles, his
earliest work, have been included, and they're notable for his up-high singing.) Rush,
with "So Many Roads," "All Your Love," and four more gems, is also in fine form, his
singing agonizingly pitched, his choking of the guitar neck beseeching and peremptory.
AMG Review by Cub Koda
Although Albert King has the lion's share of tracks on this excellent compilation, six
of the fourteen tracks come from Rush's shortlived tenure with the label and are some
of his very best. Chronologically, these are his next recordings after the Cobra sides
and they carry a lot of the emotional wallop of those tracks, albeit with much loftier
production values with much of it recorded in early stereo. Oddly enough, some of the
material ("All Your Love," "I'm Satisfied [Keep on Loving Me Baby]") were
remakes -- albeit great ones -- of tunes that Cobra had already released as
singles! But Rush's performance of "So Many Roads" (featuring one of the
greatest slow blues guitar solos of all time) should not be missed at any cost.
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Track List:
01 - Searching for a Woman (King) 3:00
02 - Bad Luck (King) 2:59
03 - So Close (Rush) 2:43
04 - Howlin' for My Darlin' (Dixon, Howlin' Wolf) 3:03
05 - I Can't Stop Baby (Dixon) 2:13
06 - Won't Be Hanging Around (King) 2:53
07 - I'm Satisfied (Rush) 2:22
08 - All Your Love (I Miss Loving) (Rush) 2:53
09 - You Know My Love (Dixon) 2:40
10 - Merry Ways (King) 2:51
11 - Wild Woman (King) 2:36
12 - Murder (King) 2:55
13 - So Many Roads, So Many Trains (Paul) 3:10
14 - California Blues (King) 2:46
Personnel:
Willie Dixon (Bass)
Greg Fulginiti (Mastering)
Little Johnny Jones (Piano)
Albert King (Guitar, Vocals, Performer, Photography)
Lafayette Leake (Piano)
Thiotis Morgan (Drums)
Matt "Guitar" Murphy (Electric Bass)
Bob Neely (Tenor Sax)
Lee Otis (Electric Bass)
Odie Payne (Drums)
Freddie Robinette (Baritone Sax)
Otis Rush (Guitar, Vocals, Performer, Photography)
Wilbur Thompson (Trumpet)
Sam Wallace (Piano)
Hal White (Tenor Sax)
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