Otis Rush - "All Your Love (I'm Missing It)"
As easy as it might be to dismiss this sultry blues as a mere genre exercise, I urge you to listen until at least 1:08, when Otis Rush shows us that a guitar can be like a wrecking ball and a song a flimsy structure to be torn down. What comes after - thirty Italian dandies dancing the mashed potato in a living room scene directed by Michelangelo Antonioni - is all well and fine, but nothing compares to the moment when Rush's band is sent into a trembling retreat, is utterly cowed, by the power of the man's piercing, distorted guitar, unleashed just seconds after he pines, "I love you baby," and then oh so unconvincingly, "and I know you love me, too."
An ideal soundtrack to a bottle fight I once observed outside a Milanese train station.
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Posted by Jordan at January 30, 2008 8:58 PM