| "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" | ||||
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| Single byOtis Rush | ||||
| B-side | "My Baby's a Good 'Un" | |||
| Released | 1959 (1959) | |||
| Recorded | 1958 | |||
| Studio | Cobra, Chicago | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 2:36 | |||
| Label | Cobra | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Otis Rush | |||
| Producer(s) | Willie Dixon | |||
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"All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" or "All Your Love" is ablues standard written and recorded byChicago blues guitaristOtis Rush in 1958. Of all of his compositions, it is the best-known with versions by several blues and other artists.[1] "All Your Love" was inspired by an earlier blues song and later influenced other popular songs.
"All Your Love" is a moderate-tempo minor-key twelve-bar blues withAfro-Cuban rhythmic influences. An impromptu song "apparently dashed off ... in the car en route to Cobra's West Roosevelt Road studios",[2] it borrows guitar lines and the arrangement from "Lucky Lou", a 1957 instrumental single by blues guitaristJody Williams.[3] 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 byWillie Dixon and features Rush on guitar and vocal, Dixon on bass,Ike Turner on second guitar,Little Brother Montgomery on piano,Harold Ashby andJackie Brenston on saxophones, andBilly Gayles on drums.[1] When "All Your Love" was released in 1958 onCobra 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 hisBlues Interaction – Live in Japan 1986 album.
In 2010, Otis Rush's "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" was inducted into theBlues Foundation Hall of Fame, which noted that Rush's song "was the obvious inspiration forBob Dylan's recent track "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'"".[4] In various interviews,Peter Green acknowledged being influenced by "All Your Love"' when he wrote the rock classic "Black Magic Woman",[5] that became a major hit forSantana. According toCarlos Santana, "If you take the words from 'Black Magic Woman' and just leave the rhythm, it's 'All Your Love'—it's Otis Rush".[6] A variety of musical artists have recorded the song, often as "All Your Love",[7] although that is also the title of a different song byMagic Sam.[1]
