Like my parents, I don't care who is sleeping. I clean my house on Saturday and jam my blues. My parents would be sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee and talking about the week past. I grew up hearing the blues every Saturday morning. This review and Star rating are of my own opinion. I would like to thank Netgalley and Hachette Books for the ARC of this book. Jackson.Ĭonsidered by many to be the greatest bluesman currently performing, this book will give readers unparalleled access into the man, the myth, the Bobby Rush. His songs have also been featured in TV shows and films including HBO's Ballers and major motion pictures like Black Snake Moan, starring Samuel L. He was recently given the highest Blues Music Award honor of B.B. ![]() He was featured in Martin Scorcese's The Blues docuseries on PBS, a documentary film called Take Me to the River, performed with Dan Aykroyd on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and most recently had a cameo in the Golden Globe nominated Netflix film, Dolemite Is My Name, starring Eddie Murphy. ![]() His renowned stage act features his famed shake dancers, who personify his funky blues and his ribald sense of humor. In 2007, he earned the distinction of being the first blues artist to play at the Great Wall of China. His lifelong hectic tour schedule has earned him the affectionate title "King of the Chitlin' Circuit," from Rolling Stone. At age eighty-six, he is still on the road for over 200 days a year. The man once beloved for performing in local jukejoints is now headlining major music/blues festivals, clubs, and theaters across the U.S. It wasn't until the early 1970s that Rush finally scored a hit with "Chicken Heads." More recordings followed, including an album which went on to be listed in the Top 10 blues albums of the 1970s by Rolling Stone and a handful of regional jukebox favorites including "Sue" and "I Ain't Studdin' Ya."Īnd Rush's career shows no signs of slowing down now. Rush eventually began leading his own band in the 1960s, crafting his own distinct style of funky blues, and recording a succession of singles for various labels. Rush later relocated to Chicago to pursue his musical career and started to work with Earl Hooker, Luther Allison, and Freddie King, and sat in with many of his musical heroes, such as Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and Little Walter. It was there he first had Elmore James play in his band. He led his first band in Arkansas between Little Rock and Pine Bluff in the 1950s. ![]() As a teenager, Rush acquired his first real guitar and started playing in juke joints in Little Rock, Arkansas, donning a fake mustache to trick club owners into thinking he was old enough to gain entry. in Homer, Louisiana, he adopted the stage name Bobby Rush out of respect for his father, a pastor. This memoir charts the extraordinary rise to fame of living blues legend, Bobby Rush. I can still do the shows with the girls around me for Black (audiences), or I can cross the railroad tracks and cross over to the white market and play guitar in a club where Black people probably don’t even know I’m there.Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush. It’s part of life, and life hasn’t changed.īut I’m blessed today that I can put one foot on one side of the fence, and the other foot on the other side. I was blessed enough to come up in a time when I could be like a stand-up comedian and talk about the two most important things in life: sex and money. If you were starting your career today, after the #MeToo movement, do you think you’d be doing the same kind of show? I saw you perform in 2018 at the Riverfront Jazz Festival, and it was a classic Bobby Rush show: You were constantly joking about sex as female dancers twerked next to you. I’ve done a lot of things in my life I had no business doing, but I’ve only had three beers in my life, with Muddy Waters, and no beers before or since then, and I don’t smoke or get high.
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