However, he pushed forward with over 350 recordings and a career where he plays over two hundred dates per year. He has felt disrespected many times in his lifetime. Rush was once called “King of the Chitlin Circuit,” a title he didn’t like and would have never given himself. All the members of the Blues Hall of Fame that were present at the awards got on the stage. Rush (second from left) and well-known harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite (third from right) take a bow at the 36th Blues Music Awards held in Memphis at the Cook Convention Center in 2015.
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He has smooth skin and an even smoother voice. I’d laugh about myself and about the garbage man stealing my wife.”Īt eighty-three, he was honored with a long-overdue Grammy. I found a way to make that funny I was funny from behind the curtain. “I didn’t want anyone to know I was hurting. He tells stories of playing music for cheeseburgers on the Chitlin Circuit and having to play behind a curtain because the white audience that came to hear his music didn’t want to see his black face. It didn’t mean he was always treated right. However, getting through the door wasn’t always something to laugh about. He recalls as a young child, being a clown, he learned quickly, “I had a gift that could get me through the door. “I take a chance and do things other guys wouldn’t dare to do,” Rush recently said about his sometimes-racy performances. Rush isn’t just a bluesman-he’s a comedian and the ultimate showman. Entertainer and at age eighty-eight, Mississippi bluesman Bobby Rush will say or do just about anything to make his audience laugh. He sings about being in love with big, fat women, being henpecked and broken-hearted, about cheating women, chicken heads, and porcupine meat. He has faced much adversity in his life and feels he can be a good role model he has succeeded in spite of it all and believes others can as well.
Written and photographed by KAREN PULFER FOCHTĪ musical journey well-travelled Bobby Rush, an octogenarian from Mississippi is proud to be a two-time Grammy Award-winning artist.
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