Otis Rush

Person · Open Library

Works

3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

Canada

Active from

1968-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

323,255

Total plays

1,999,702

Otis Rush Jr. (Philadelphia, Mississippi, April 29, 1934 - September 29, 2018) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. Rush was left-handed and strummed with his left hand while fretting with his right. However, his guitars were strung with the low E string at the bottom, in reverse or upside-down to typical guitarists. He often played with the little finger of his pick hand curled under the low E for positioning. It is widely believed that this contributed to his distinc

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,660x

2. The Epidemiology of Major Depressive Disorder

   · 2003 · cited 6,298x

3. Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing

   · 2020 · cited 4,961x

4. Acute and Longer-Term Outcomes in Depressed Outpatients Requiring One or Several Treatment Steps: A STAR*D Report

   · 2006 · cited 4,725x

5. The 16-Item quick inventory of depressive symptomatology (QIDS), clinician rating (QIDS-C), and self-report (QIDS-SR): a psychometric evaluation in patients with chronic major depression

   · 2003 · cited 3,290x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Otis

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Philadelphia

Place of death

Chicago

Occupation

musician

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

Genre

rhythm and blues

Instrument

guitar

Record label

Duke Records

Official website

www.otisrush.net

Image

Otis Rush at Notodden bluesfestival.jpg

Voice type

tenor

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