![]() He picked cotton as a kid built himself a single-stringed "diddley bow" to play music painted a mustache on his face with a burnt match so he could perform in clubs at age 13, and has been a lifelong sober-by-choice, fiercely independent entertainer with just one bona fide hit ( "Chicken Heads") but dozens and dozens of stories to tell. ![]() His autobiography, "I Ain't Studdin' Ya: My American Blues Story," is a modest, plain-spoken yet compelling account of a hardscrabble life in the Deep South. He grabbed his first in 2017 - after decades of performing. The show will be reflective of his 2020 recording "Rawer Than Raw," which won Rush his second Grammy for best traditional blues album. ![]() I got my two big feet - that's my drum - and my thumb is my bass, and my fingers are my guit-tar. "I do the same kind of songs whether it's a big band or a small band. It's one-on-one," said the 88-year-old motormouth, a singer/guitarist/harmonica player with the energy of someone one-fourth his age. "I love the acoustic dates 'cause I get close to 'em and I can talk to 'em. I lived for 48 years in Chicago," Rush said this month from his home in Jackson, Miss., where it was 71 degrees.Īlthough known as the King of the Chitlin' Circuit, Rush returns to the spiffy Dakota in downtown Minneapolis Friday and Saturday with his acoustic show, not his legendary revue with dancers and full band. ![]() If inveterate bluesman Bobby Rush survived all these challenges, he won't be fazed by January in Minnesota. He dropped out of school at age 11, lost three children to sickle cell anemia, suffered burns in a fire at his BBQ restaurant, walked away from a bus crash that killed a bandmate, did a prison stint for unwittingly transporting a promoter's cocaine, endured COVID at age 86 and admitted in his new autobiography that he cheated on his wife. ![]()
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