{"product_id":"otis-rush-double-trouble-paperback","title":"Otis Rush: Double Trouble - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimon Godfrey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlay \"Double Trouble\" for someone who's never heard the name Otis Rush, and watch their face change. That minor-key ache. That guitar answering the voice like a second singer picking a fight. Somewhere around the second chorus, they'll ask who this is - and you'll have to explain that you're probably the first person who ever told them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Clapton names him as one of his three foundational influences. Peter Green built early Fleetwood Mac on top of his riffs. Led Zeppelin's first album leans on a song he made famous. Stevie Ray Vaughan named his own band after one of his titles. And for most of his working life, Otis Rush couldn't catch a break to save it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA debut single that should have made him a star. A masterpiece so good Capitol Records shelved it for five years, convinced it was \"too bluesy\" to sell. A decade spent all but invisible in his own country while Europe packed the halls. A Grammy that finally arrived in 1999 - forty-three years after he'd earned it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDouble Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e tells the full story, decade by decade, record by record: the Cobra sessions that built a genre, the hiatus that nearly ended a career, the stubborn refusal to compromise that cost him fame and made the music worth stealing in the first place. It's a story about genius meeting terrible timing, again and again, and somehow never losing its nerve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou don't need to know a single blues record to start this book. By the end, you'll want to put one on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKnow the story. Hear the blues differently.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 122\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.29 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 10, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67925821817086,"sku":"9798237696783","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/8716\/4670\/files\/HG7wPKwdIh9798237696783.webp?v=1793439140","url":"https:\/\/123learningstore.com\/products\/otis-rush-double-trouble-paperback","provider":"123 Learning Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}