9/17/2023 0 Comments Bobby rush tour dates 2017Restrooms, hand washing stations, and hand sanitizer will be available on site. No tickets are required for this free admission (first come, first served) all-ages event. The free event will conclude the annual Fishers Summer Concert Series, and includes performances by renowned local and national award-winning blues artists. 4) at the Nickel Plate District Amphitheater (6 Municipal Drive). Their travels introduced Rush to other blues greats of the era, including Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters.J(FISHERS, IND.) – Fishers Parks announces the lineup for the 9 th annual Fishers Blues Fest, the popular two-night celebration on Labor Day weekend (Friday, Sept. In Pine Bluff, the young bluesman befriended legendary slide guitarist Elmore James and played around the Deep South with him and harmonica ace Little Walter, among others. To sneak into clubs and juke-joints, the underage Rush fashioned a moustache out of matchstick ash. While still a teenager, Rush became a professional blues musician, adopting his stage name so as to not disrespect his devout dad. The family relocated to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1948. He twanged a diddley bow before picking up a guitar around age 11, and his preacher father knew enough about a harmonica to pass along a few riffs to his progeny. The record features a half dozen covers of some of their best-known songs rendered in Rush’s own inimitable, acoustic style, characterized by wailing harmonica and a stomping foot to keep the rhythm.īobby Rush was born Emmett Ellis, Jr., outside Homer, Louisiana, in 1933. One song “Dust My Broom” was written by Robert Johnson, but caught Rush’s attention after it was recorded by Elmore James. Partly inspired by the popular series of intimate solo concerts, Rush has made a mainstay of his concert calendar in the years since his first all-acoustic album (titled Raw), "Rawer Than Raw" casts a spotlight on five Mississippi Blues Hall of Famers: early acoustic blues greats Skip James and Robert Johnson, and Rush’s contemporaries on the music scene of the ’50s and ’60s, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Muddy Waters. The album just won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album, his second Grammy Award and sixth nomination. With the release of his 2020 album "Rawer Than Raw" an all-acoustic effort that pays tribute to the rich blues history of Mississippi, Rush has cemented his reputation as one of the preeminent bluesmen in the world, one of the last living links to the music’s glorious past, and an inspiration for its future stars. Rush, who turned 87 in November, is not done yet. Rush kicked off 2020 with the release of “Dolemite Kid,” a single inspired by his nine years on tour with Moore, his day working with Murphy, and the hit film itself. To cap off 2019, he had a cameo in the Golden Globe-nominated Netflix original film "Dolemite Is My Name" the Rudy Ray Moore biopic featuring Eddie Murphy as Moore. He has recorded for more than 20 labels, from "Checker/Chess and ABC" to "Philly Int’l and Rounder/Concord." Rush is one of the last Black bluesmen from the class to emerge out of and triumph in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. In 2019, at age 85, he released "Sitting on Top of the Blues" with 11 originals, earning him another Blues Music Award and Grammy Award nomination. He’s finally telling his story in his autobiography "I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya: My American Blues Story" currently available for pre-order and due out June 22, via Hachette Books, who have published Keith Richards, Buddy Guy, and Tina Fey, to name a few.Īfter earning a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album and a Blues MusicĪward for Album of the Year for his studio recording "Porcupine Meat" in 2017, Name" starring Eddie Murphy, and autobiography on its way Bobby Rush has been making records for nearly 70 years, and has more than 400 recordings, 75 career releases, and now 27 studio albums to his name. 2x Grammy winning legend, Blues Hall of Famer, six-time Grammy nominee, andġ3-time Blues Music Award winner, with cameo in the Netflix original "Dolemite Is My
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