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"A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues."

Otis Rush, American Musician

Promise, Will, World

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"A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues."

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"I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world."

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"A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues."

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