RUSH, OTIS

RUSH, OTIS. Bluesman (29 April 1934 in Philadelphia, Mississippi). He taught himself to play guitar and harmonica as a child by listening to records, particularly of John Lee Hooker , Sam Lightnin' Hopkins, and Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield), among others. In 1949 he went to Chicago and soon became involved with the blues world. In 1953 he began playing professionally in nightclubs with his own groups. He and Willie Dixon were among the first of the Chicago bluesmen to play blues in...