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Otis Rush

"I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes."

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"I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes."

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"I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues."
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"I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction."
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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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"Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right."
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