All Your Love (I Miss Loving)

"All Your Love (I Miss Loving)"
Single by Otis Rush
B-side "My Baby's a Good 'Un"
Released 1958 (1958)
Format 7" 45 rpm record
Recorded Cobra Studios, Chicago
1958 (1958)
Genre Blues
Length 2:36
Label Cobra (Cat. no. 5032)
Writer(s) Otis Rush
Producer Willie Dixon
Otis Rush singles chronology
"Double Trouble"
(1958)		 "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)"
(1958)		 "So Many Roads So Many Trains"
(1960)

"All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" or "All Your Love"[1] is a blues song written and recorded in 1958 by Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush. It is "the best-known and most covered of Rush's [authored] songs",[2] with versions recorded by several blues and other artists. It was inspired by an earlier blues song and later influenced other popular songs.

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Original song

"All Your Love" is a moderate-tempo minor-key twelve-bar blues with Afro-Cuban rhythmic influences. An impromptu song "apparently dashed off ... in the car en route to Cobra's West Roosevelt Road studios",[3] it borrows guitar lines and the arrangement from "Lucky Lou", a 1957 instrumental single by blues guitarist Jody Williams (Argo 5274).[4] The song alternates between guitar and vocal sections, with an instrumental bridge performed as a faster-tempo twelve-bar shuffle featuring Rush's guitar solo.

The song was produced by Willie Dixon and features Rush (guitar and vocal), Dixon (bass), Ike Turner (guitar), Little Brother Montgomery (piano), Harold Ashby and Jackie Brenston (saxophones), and Billy Gayles (drums). When "All Your Love" was released in 1958 on Cobra Records, it was Rush's last single for the label. Rush subsequently recorded several studio and live versions of the song, including one released on his Blues Interaction – Live in Japan 1986 album.

Other versions

A variety of musical artists have recorded "All Your Love", including John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers from the album Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (1966), Aerosmith from Pandora's Box (1977, released 1991), Stevie Ray Vaughan from In the Beginning (1980, released 1992), Gary Moore from Still Got the Blues (1990), and the Steve Miller Band from Bingo! (2010).

Recognition and influence

In 2010, Otis Rush's "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame,[5] who noted that Rush's song "was the obvious inspiration for Bob Dylan's recent track "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'"".[5] In various interviews, Peter Green acknowledged being influenced by "All Your Love"' when he wrote the rock classic "Black Magic Woman",[6] which became a major hit for Santana. According to Carlos Santana, "If you take the words from 'Black Magic Woman' and just leave the rhythm, it's 'All Your Love' – it's Otis Rush".[7]

References

  1. ^ Magic Sam wrote and recorded a different "All Your Love" (Cobra 5013) in 1957.
  2. ^ Snowden, Don (1993). The Cobra Records Story (liner notes). Capricorn Records. p. 16. 9 42012-2. 
  3. ^ Dahl, Bill (1996). All Music Guide to the Blues. Miller Freeman Books. p. 229. ISBN 0879304243. 
  4. ^ Billboard Magazine, February 16, 2002, p. 56.
  5. ^ a b "Blues Hall of Fame – 2010 Inductees". Classics of Blues Recording – Single or Album Track. The Blues Foundation. 2010. http://www.blues.org/#ref=halloffame_inductees. Retrieved May 1, 2010. 
  6. ^ Celmins, Martin (1998). Peter Green – Founder of Fleetwood Mac. Sanctuary Publishing. p. 73. ISBN 1 86074 233 5. 
  7. ^ Aykroyd, Dan; Manilla, Ben (2004). Elwood's Blues: Interviews with the Blues Legends & Stars. Backbeat Books. p. 145. ISBN 9780879308094.