"All Your Love" or "All Your Love" is a blues song written and recorded in 1958 by Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush

Otis Rush

Otis Rush is a blues musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound and long bent notes...

. It is "the best-known and most covered of Rush's [authored] songs", with versions recorded by several blues and other artists. It was inspired by an earlier blues song and later influenced other popular songs.

Original song

"All Your Love" is a moderate-tempo minor-key twelve-bar blues with Afro-Cuban

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 rhythmic influences. An impromptu song "apparently dashed off ... in the car en route to Cobra's West Roosevelt Road studios", it borrows guitar lines and the arrangement from "Lucky Lou", a 1957 instrumental single by blues guitarist Jody Williams

Jody Williams (blues musician)

Joseph Leon Williams , better known as Jody Williams, is an American blues guitarist and singer. His singular guitar playing, marked by flamboyant string-bending, imaginative chord changes and a distinctive tone, was influential in the Chicago blues scene of the 1950s.-Career:In the mid 1950s,...

 (Argo

Argo Records

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 5274). 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

Willie Dixon

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 and features Rush (guitar and vocal), Dixon (bass), Ike Turner

Ike Turner

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 (guitar), Little Brother Montgomery

Little Brother Montgomery

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 (piano), Harold Ashby

Harold Ashby

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 and Jackie Brenston

Jackie Brenston

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 (saxophones), and Billy Gayles (drums). When "All Your Love" was released in 1958 on Cobra Records

Cobra Records

Cobra Records was an independent record label that operated from 1956 to 1959. The label was important for launching the recording careers of Chicago blues artists Otis Rush, Magic Sam, and Buddy Guy and "signaled the arrival of a new generation of [blues] artists and a new sound .....

, 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

Blues Interaction – Live in Japan 1986

Blues Interaction - Live In Japan 1986 Is a 1986 live album by blues singer and guitarist Otis Rush. Recorded with local Japanese band Break Down, the album has been legitimately panned by many critics because of the backing band's rudimentary knowledge of blues music. Ironically, Rush has dual...

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

Aerosmith

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 from Pandora's Box

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(1977, released 1991), Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stephen Ray "Stevie Ray" Vaughan was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan and frontman for Double Trouble, a band that included bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton. Born in Dallas, Vaughan moved to Austin at the age of 17 and...

 from In the Beginning

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(1980, released 1992), Gary Moore

Gary Moore

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 from Still Got the Blues

Still Got the Blues

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(1990), and the Steve Miller Band

Steve Miller Band

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 from Bingo!

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(2010).

Recognition and influence

In 2010, Otis Rush's "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" was inducted into the Blues Foundation

Blues Foundation

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 Hall of Fame, who noted that Rush's song "was the obvious inspiration for Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

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's recent track "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'

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"". In various interviews, Peter Green

Peter Green (musician)

Peter Green is a British blues-rock guitarist and the founder of the band Fleetwood Mac...

 acknowledged being influenced by "All Your Love"' when he wrote the rock classic "Black Magic Woman

Black Magic Woman

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", which became a major hit for Santana

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. According to Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana

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, "If you take the words from 'Black Magic Woman' and just leave the rhythm, it's 'All Your Love' – it's Otis Rush".