Track Listing

1. Searchin' For A Woman - Albert King
2. Bad Luck - Albert King
3. So Close - Otis Rush
4. Callin' For My Darlin' - Albert King
5. I Can't Stop - Otis Rush
6. Won't Be Hangin' Around - Albert King
7. I'm Satisfied - Otis Rush
8. All Your Love - Otis Rush
9. You Know My Love - Otis Rush
10. Merry Way - Albert King
11. Wild Women - Albert King
12. Murder - Albert King
13. So Many Roads, So Many Trains - Otis Rush
14. California - Albert King

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7775 in Music
• Released on: 2003-02-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 39 minutes

Customer Reviews

Fine collection, though the title is slightly misleading
If you didn't know any better, you would think that an album credited to "Albert King & Otis Rush" is some sort of collaboration between the two left-handed blues guitarists.
It's not, though. "Door To Door" is merely a collection of the few singles that King and Rush recorded during their short tenure with the Chess brothers in Chicago.
It's still a good album, however, and I suppose this way of re-issuing King's eight and Rush's six singles is better than putting out two seperate CDs.

Albert King, the older of the two men, does a great T-Bone Walker on "Bad Luck" (excellent piano playing on that one, courtesy of "Little" Johnny Jones), and "Won't Be Hangin' Around" is one of his greatest slow blues.
King also shines on the soulful, saxophone-driven "Searchin' For A Woman", and he does a very credible "Howlin' For My Darling" (originally written for Howlin' Wolf).

You should note that three of the six Otis Rush numbers are remakes of songs that he cut just a couple of years earlier with Cobra Records (not that they're not great), but this 1960 session also produced the original version of one of his best songs, the smouldering "So Many Roads, So Many Trains", which features what must be one of the greatest slow blues guitar solo of all time, as well as soulful blues piano playing by Lafayette Leake.
("Oddie" Payne is credited as Rush's drummer. It's "Odie". Like the dog!)

This is not an essential purchase perhaps (all the best songs can be found on other albums), but it is a very enjoyable collection of the few songs that these two excellent guitar players cut for the biggest blues label in town, and the quality of the material is high all the way through.

Absolutely Brilliant; a must have
From the controlled quality of Rush's sibilant vocals to the understated brass section this album is a masterpiece. To have Albert King on it too is a huge bonus. The quality of the guitar work alone makes it worth buying. Musically it is a complete success. There are so many excellent tracks but if I had to select one for especial mention it would be the classic So many Roads. Wonderful, spine-tingling classic blues. But it NOW.

Howlin' for my chicago blues
A must for all lovers of soul-tinged chicago blues and the stinging guitar of albert king and otis rush. This are their complete chess sessions in vivid remastered sound at a bargain price.

There is a great groove throughout this album, trademark of the chess sound, and material to match. Otis' voice is intensely passionate and captivating, mirroring his fiery guitar work. King's thick-toned vocals also seem at one with the burning notes that reasonate, brimming with tone, from his signature flying v.

If you already own king's later albums for stax, these chess sessions are essential for seeing just to see the emergence of his exquisitely expressive and much-copied guitar sound.

If you are a fan of otis' cobra sessions, the tracks on this album are equally brilliant and a superb remake of All Your Love is included.

It should also be noted that chess stalwarts and blues legends matt "guitar" murphy and willie dixon feature on this album, the former surprisingly playing electric bass.

This is one of the favourite albums in my collection. BUY IT.