Otis Rush Wins GRAMMY Award For Best Traditional Blues Album.LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 24, 1999--"Any Place I'm Going," guitar legend Otis Rush's acclaimed debut on the House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically Music label, was awarded a GRAMMY for Best Traditional Blues Album, at ceremonies this evening in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . "We are extremely happy for Otis Rush Otis Rush (born April 29, 1934 in Philadelphia, Mississippi) is a blues musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound, jazz-style arpeggios and long bent notes. ," said Steve Devick, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Platinum Entertainment, Inc., parent company of the House of Blues Music label. "Hopefully this industry recognition will result in greater awareness of his legacy and current contributions to the blues." Rush won the GRAMMY over nominated albums by John Hammond John Hammond may refer to:
Recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, with co-producer Willie Mitchell, Rush's muscular vocals and visceral left-handed solos dominate his original tunes "Keep On Loving Me Baby," "Looking Back" and the title track, penned with acclaimed Grammy-winning songwriter Will Jennings. The album also includes songs written by R&B legends Marvin Gaye ("Pride and Joy") and Sam Cooke ("Laughin' and Clownin'"). Since 1956 Rush has been an international figure in the blues world. Along with contemporaries, Magic Sam and Buddy Guy, Rush has been heralded as a pioneer of Chicago's "West Side Sound," and has inspired the careers of such rock superstars as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990), born in Dallas, Texas, was an American blues guitarist. His broad appeal, combination of unbelievable speed, precision, energy, passion and emotion and constant expansion of his Blues style into Funk, Jazz, . Rush is praised by The Riverfront Times as "an architect of the latter-day Chicago blues . . . the logical progression beyond Muddy Waters." Pulse magazine called "Any Place I'm Going" Rush's best performance in more than 20 years, his "deep, robust near-shout, summoning up flame from his belly." Platinum Entertainment, based in Downers Grove, IL, produces, licenses, acquires, markets and distributes high quality recorded music on the House of Blues, River North, CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. Records and Intersound labels. Platinum's products include new releases from emerging and established artists in the adult contemporary, gospel, blues, urban, country and classical music genres, as well as compilations that enable Platinum to exploit its catalog of master recordings. |
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