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Bobby Rush Raw: An Intimate Night of Stories and Songs
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In April 2020, blues and soul singer
WTJU May 6th, 2021 | By WTJU
Bobby Rush has been making records for nearly 70 years with 27 studio albums to his name, and he’s played often on WTJU jazz & blues shows.
Now you can watch him perform live! On Sundays, May 16 and May 23 at 8 p.m., join WTJU for
More about Bobby Rush:
After earning a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album and a Blues Music Award for Album of the Year for his studio recording
Porcupine Meat in 2017, Bobby Rush spent a year writing his follow-up. 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. Rush is one of the last Black bluesmen from the class to emerge out of and triumph in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. He has recorded for more than 20 labels, from Checker/Chess and ABC to Philly Int’l and Rounder/Concord. To cap off 2019 he had a cameo in the Golden Globe-nominated Netflix original film