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In the early ’50s some juke joints had improved in the way they looked, while others looked like they hadn’t been touched since Negroes built them. There was Sturdik’s, the Elks Lodge, Drum’s, Nappy’s, the Jack Rabbit, and Jitterbug, where I got to first know Elmo James. For Pine Bluff, Arkansas, had lots of juke joints. The good Lord had planted me in the right place. Photo Bryan Thompson, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Bobby Rush performs at Chicago Blues Festival, 2010. And that’s what’s inspired me to go forward.”īobby Rush lives in Clarksdale, Mississippi.Cover image courtesy Hachette Books. “ There’s no reason I should have gone on living unless God had a reason. “ I could have ended up paralyzed or dead,” says Rush.

Rush was pinned to the collapsed ceiling and was extracted with a device called the jaws of life.

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Rush’s bus driver had suffered a sudden heart attack and drove off the road. In addition to Bobby Rush: Live At Ground Zero, Rush also released Undercover Lover on his Deep Rush label that continues the musical tradition he started over the previous decade.īobby Rush: Live At Ground Zero also marked the comeback of Rush in the wake of a near-fatal tour bus accident that occurred in April, 21 outside of Tallahassee, Florida., in which Rush sustained critical injuries. It is a show that has won Rush the honors of “Best Live Performer” by both the critics and the readers of Living Blues magazine in 1998,1999, 2000, 20. It serves as a window for the world to see what many have heard about but have not experienced unless they’ve caught Rush’s show - a true Chitlin’ Circuit revue featuring Rush’s dynamic blend of Southern soul and Mississippi blues. It’s like Bobby Rush is 2 years old again!“īobby Rush: Live At Ground Zero was shot on a sultry July night at Morgan Freeman’s Ground Zero juke joint in the blues mecca of Clarksdale, Mississippi. And I thank the Lord for that! And add the fact that I’m about to release my first live album and DVD. “ It was total chance that Martin Scorsese and Richard Pearce found out about me and took an interest. “ I’m as excited as I’ve ever been in my entire life, and in 5 years of performing,” says Rush. The DVD / CD set kicks off Rush’s own Deep Rush label based in Jackson, Mississippi., and distributed by RED Distribution through Emergent Music Marketing. That same month, Bobby Rush: Live At Ground Zero (Deep Rush Visuals), was released.

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In September of 2003, Rush was the subject of a documentary titled The Road To Memphis,” Richard Pearce’s film in the PBS series Martin Scorsese’s “The Blues.” Rush, with his full-on soul band and sexy dancers, was literally in a class by himself. During this period he was slowly “discovered” by white blues fans in search of something more authentically Southern and intense than the merrily rollicking music that had become the blues? mainstream.

It’s a scene populated by older, mainly Southern black audiences who gather to hear their music at social clubs - a very different scenario from the comparably pristine world of blues festivals.Īfter recording for labels like Checker, Galaxy, Ronn, Philadelphia International, ABC and LaJam, Rush recorded a series of albums for Malaco Records in the 1990s. The song, whose subject matter was slightly outside the mainstream, immediately crowned him the king of the Chitlin Circuit. In 1969, he recorded the hit “Chicken Heads,” which was one of the last real blues songs to find a home on R&B radio. Rush gained renown in Chicago starting in the 1950s and 60s where he performed or recorded with artists like Howlin’ Wolf, Freddie King, Willie Dixon, Little Milton and Earl Hooker. Your Connection to traditional and contemporary World Music, including folk, roots, global music, ethno and crosscultural fusionsīorn Emmit Ellis, Jr., Bobby Rush was born in Homer, Louisiana.

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