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Track Listings

1 Searchin' For A Woman
2 Bad Luck
3 So Close
4 Howlin' For My Darling
5 I Can't Stop
6 Won't Be Hangin' Around
7 I'm Satisfied
8 All Your Love
9 You Know My Love
10 Merry Way
11 Wild Women
12 Murder
13 So Many Roads
14 California

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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. Highlights include 'So Close', 'Bad Luck Blues' and 'Searching' for a Women'. Spectrum.

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Esquires King and Rush pushed themselves further toward interpretative wisdom and individuality with the 196~61 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. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993 -- From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.92 x 5.51 x 0.39 inches; 4.94 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Universal Uk
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ MCD 09322,
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1990
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 8, 2006
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Universal Uk
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000002OBE
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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GUTENBERG GADELHA CHAVES
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2019
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Excellent product. Everything I've been waiting for. Safe packing. I recommend
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Michel_s
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2012
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Excellent Chicago blues that I expected to hear from Otis Rush and Al King as for the CD quality is kind of appropriate to recording style of 60's ... price wise is wonderful.
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J. J. Valentino
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2017
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Great early stuff from Albert, Otis only so-so. Otis Has some good sound, but not enuf
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Jeffrey Riedy
5.0 out of 5 stars filled with many gems by two of the best.
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2014
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Swinging album, filled with many gems by two of the best.
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Peter j. Blazevic
5.0 out of 5 stars PERFECT! THANK YOU
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2015
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GOD BLESS YOU! PERFECT! THANK YOU!
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Dr. S. Shurville
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2014
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Perry Celestino
5.0 out of 5 stars The Once Lost Chess Sides of Albert King and Otis Rush.
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2005
Most of us who lived in the Blues revival of the 1960s remember this landmark recording. The Blues was coming back and Chess Records, the original home of Chicago Blues, wanted their fair share of it! These recordings were in the Chess vault for ten years are would not have been released had it not been for the success of Albert King at Stax Records in Memphis.

King had recorded his set for this LP in East St. Louis and used them as a demo for Chess. They weren't really interested. Otis Rush, who has had the worst luck of any Bluesman with record deals, had come out of favour with no follow up to his massive hit "I Can't Quit You Baby" on Cobra Records. The label had gone under due the the underworld dealings of its owner. So he was looking around too.

The result was this landmark record. Two left-handed guitarists on one record! Albert King sounds as raw and basic as you will ever hear him. His tunes (maybe due to Jimmy Reed's influence) don't match the titles. I think that's cool. For example "Wild Woman", a template for "Crosscut Saw" never mentions the title; "Looking For A Woman" never explains what it is about- but its a Blind Lemon Jefferson takeoff on "Matchbox Blues" that King did right up until his death and the most famous tune on this CD; "Won't Be Hangin Round" ,is the first recorded version of his most famous lick: The stop-break bends in the first four bars of the progression-yeah! It also never articulates the song title! This is top blues!

The Otis Rush set is more diverse with remakes of several of his Cobra tunes. Most memorable would have to be "All Your Love", made famous as a cover version on John Mayall's Bluesbreakers LP. I always liked his slow tune "So Close", almost as pop, do-wop blues and the remake of the Cobra tune "I'm Satisfied" with its Gospel overtones. Fantastic!

This record has an interesting history. It was released as CD from Europe, first France in 1986 and then the Charly Label in 1987. They were withdrawn and Chess issued this remaster in 1990.It is now getting harder to locate so do yourself a favour and get a copy now!

Update: 2007 - There is now a new remaster of this classic album just released from Japan. There is also a new German version as well.
It's great that this classic material will still be available for some time to come.
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Docendo Discimus
4.0 out of 5 stars Fine collection, though the title is slightly misleading
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2003
If you didn't know any better, you would think that an album credited to "Albert King & Otis Rush" is some sort of collaboration between the two left-handed blues guitarists.

It's not, though. "Door To Door" is merely a collection of the few singles that King and Rush recorded during their short tenure with the Chess brothers in Chicago.
It's still a good album, however, and I suppose this way of re-issuing King's eight and Rush's six singles is better than putting out two seperate CDs.

Albert King, the older of the two men, does a great T-Bone Walker on "Bad Luck" (excellent piano playing on that one, courtesy of "Little" Johnny Jones), and "Won't Be Hangin' Around" is one of his greatest slow blues.
King also shines on the soulful, saxophone-driven "Searchin' For A Woman", and he does a very credible "Howlin' For My Darling" (originally written for Howlin' Wolf).

You should note that three of the six Otis Rush numbers are remakes of songs that he cut just a couple of years earlier with Cobra Records (not that they're not great), but this 1960 session also produced the original version of one of his best songs, the smouldering "So Many Roads, So Many Trains", which features what must be one of the greatest slow blues guitar solo of all time, as well as soulful blues piano playing by Lafayette Leake.
("Oddie" Payne is credited as Rush's drummer. It's "Odie". Like the dog!)

This is not an essential purchase perhaps (all the best songs can be found on other albums), but it is a very enjoyable collection of the few songs that these two excellent guitar players cut for the biggest blues label in town, and the quality of the material is high all the way through.
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Gianluca
5.0 out of 5 stars due giganti della chitarra alla corte dei fratelli Chess
Reviewed in Italy on January 15, 2022
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Non c'è nulla da fare, ogni volta che mi trovo davanti a un'incisione della Chess Records scattano emozioni.
Che siano album ufficiali o raccolte come in questo caso poco importa, so che troverò sempre incisioni di grande livello, musicisti sopraffini, note interne accuratissime. Insomma se si vuole avere un'idea di cosa sia stato il jazz di Chicago (e non solo ovviamente) l'etichetta dei fratelli Chess è imprescindibile.
Prendete questa incisione per esempio.
Mette insieme Otis Rush con 6 sue incisioni del 1960 e Albert King con due sessions diverse una del 1953 (originariamente edite dalla Parriot) e una del 1961.
Parliamo di due immensi chitarristi, entrambi mancini, entrambi fonte d'ispirazione per una miriade di chitarristi blues e rock dai 60 ad oggi.
Nessuno dei due originario di Chicago, Rush veniva da Philadelphia e King da Indianola ma entrambi (dopo varie peregrinazioni) giunti alla nuova Mecca del blues elettrico, la Wind city appunto.
Come detto qui parliamo di due musicisti diversi e anche di sessions separate da un discreto lasso temporale eppure l'album ha una sua continuità che stupisce, che avvince. Certo il mutamento in King lo avverti, senti il suo stile chitarristico farsi più minaccioso e consistente e senti la voce che ha acquisito forza e sicurezza, ma davvero la linearità di questo album è stupefacente.
Eppure se provate a cercare notizie sullo stile e la tecnica di questi due chitarristi troverete voci autorevoli che insistono sulle divergenze tra i due.
Io che di tecnica capisco ben poco mi limito alle emozioni e al piacere d'ascolto che in questo caso è assoluto e quindi mi godo semplicemente la grandissima musica che mi viene offerta.
Una raccolta come questa ha ovviamente il chiaro intento di spingerci ad andare oltre, ad indagare ulteriormente questi due giganti. Io l'ho fatto, già da tempo, e vi assicuro che ne vale la pena.
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5.0 out of 5 stars alles OK
Reviewed in Germany on January 10, 2020
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victor etxebarria acero
5.0 out of 5 stars Buena compra
Reviewed in Spain on November 16, 2018
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Disco imprescindible,buen sonido,lo recomiendo.
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Amazon カスタマー
5.0 out of 5 stars どちらも 素晴らしい
Reviewed in Japan on July 7, 2016
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とても良いです、次はアルバートとオーティスのそれぞれのアルバムを購入しようと思います 収録時間が短いのは、残念ですが メイオール クラプトンのオール ユア ラブは、聞いてビックリ本家の方がいいですハード過ぎ無いけどギターいい音出してます オーティスはソーメニィローズ良かったです ブルースロック好きには、おすすめします。
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baz
5.0 out of 5 stars a must have blues album
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2011
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this is a must have blues album with albert king at hes best and otis rush doing what he does best playing the blues if have not got the album get it you will hear two of the blues great players
doing some great songs on this album
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