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Musician Bobby Rush soon will be able to add the title Dr. Rush to a list of informal accolades that includes King of the Chitlin Circuit and International Dean of the Blues.
The ever-upbeat Mid-South blues legend who has contributed such observations as I m not henpecked, I ve just been pecked by the right hen, What s good for the goose is good for the gander, too and She must have a booga bear up under there to the cultural discourse will be this year s recipient of the Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Rhodes College, the school announced Thursday. I m on cloud nine, man, said Rush, 87, in a phone interview from his home in Jackson, Mississippi. This means everything to me.