Browsing: Rawer Than Raw

Working his way from the cotton fields to “King of the Chitlin’ Circuit,” to Grammy winning Hall of fame inductee, Bobby Rush is the American success story. Hail to the King!

Blues may be “America’s music,” and Bobby Rush certainly is our best ambassador since the death of B.B. King. Why then is this award never shown on TV? 

“What’s gotta happen is people gotta change the law that you must treat a man right. We gotta find a way. Everybody knows what’s wrong, but nobody knows how to fix it.”

“Out of all the places that people try to have a different approach with the blues, Mississippi is the one who stayed true to the blues line.”