Rush’s family moved to Sherrill, a small town in the Arkansas Delta, when he was still a child. She was my babysitter, and my dad was her chauffeur,” he said. “Many times when I was in the public, she wasn’t my mom. Rush, the sixth of 10 children, said his mother acted differently when the family went into town. His father, Ellis Sr., was a preacher and sharecropper his mother, Mattie, a mixed-race homemaker who passed for white. “All I know is in 1947, I was plowing in the field with a mule,” he said. Much later, Rolling Stone christened him “The King of the Chitlin Circuit,” an acknowledgment of the years he spent touring the network of small clubs for Black performers and audiences, mainly in the South, in a 1973 Silver Eagle Trailways bus he customized himself. His first guitar was a diddley bow he made from hay wire nailed to the side of his childhood home. Rush has relied on practical improvisations, often in unglamorous circumstances, his entire life. “I never seen anything like that before,” Rush said by phone a week later, from his home in Jackson, Miss. It was early May, and the swarming was so bad that the blues musician wove the insects into his lyrics: “Somebody come get these damn bugs.” He later moved to the ground in front of the stage, determined to continue his show in the dark, beyond the reach of the termite-attracting lights. In recent years, Rush has been on tour with an acoustic show, Bobby Rush: An Intimate Evening of Stories and Songs.The air was thick with termites when Bobby Rush stepped onto an outdoor stage in New Orleans for one of his first live performances in over a year - an uncharacteristically long break, the result of pandemic shutdowns, in a career that began in the wake of World War II. In the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, his risqué, humor-filled chitlin’ circuit shows often featured long, drawn-out narratives of romantic misadventures. Long considered one of the blues’ preeminent raconteurs, Rush has always placed a premium on stories in his music. In 2015, Omnivore Recordings released the 4-CD, 74-song box set, Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History of Bobby Rush, which earned a Blues Music Award for Best Historical Release. Rush ended 2020 with a cameo role in the Golden Globe-nominated Eddie Murphy film hit, Dolemite Is My Name. His next album, Sitting on Top of the Blues, received a Grammy nomination bringing a total of four for Rush, along with his 51 Blues Music Award nominations and 13 wins.
Rush won his first Grammy in 2017 for Best Traditional Blues Album for Porcupine Meat, produced by Scott Billington. He won his second Grammy for Best Traditional Blues for his album, Rawer Than Raw. He also published his memoir, I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya – My American Blues Story (Hachette Books). Thursdays 6 pm (CT) WUMS – University of Mississippiįridays 9 am (CT) WYXR Memphis Community Radio FeaturingĢ021 has been a banner year for 87-years-young, Bobby Rush. Saturday, Oct 30 – 7pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcastingģ pm (ET) University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Thursday, October 21 – 6:00 pm (CT) WUMS – University of Mississippi
Hosts: Jim Dees and our house band, the Yalobushwhackers Come early for a cocktail! We’re asking our audience to please space their seating and keep the health of everyone in mind.Īuthor and music: Bobby Rush – I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya – My American Blues Story Health protocols will be observed including spaced seating and masks when needed. We’ll also welcome back songwriter, Kaleb Garrett.įREE Admission! Lawn chairs and picnics encouraged!ĥ:30 pm – Happy Half-Hour – Signature Cocktail by Party Waitin’ To Happen and Cathead Distillery!īring friends and family.
Bobby will discuss his book and play an intimate musical set. We are thrilled to feature veteran blues star, Bobby Rush, who has recently published his memoir of 70 years in show business, I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya. The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour continues our fall 2021 season this Thursday, October 21 at 6:00 pm at the Old Armory Pavilion. (Corner of Bramlett Blvd.
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