7/31/2023 0 Comments Bobby rush concertLittle Walter got him a job at a club called Skins where they played behind a curtain for a white audience, and began working for Jimmy Reed. In Chicago, he met and befriended Little Walter and Muddy Waters who lived nearby. His family relocated to Chicago in 1953, where he became part of the local blues scene in the following decade. Still a teen, Rush donned a fake moustache to play in local juke joints with the band, fascinated by enthusiasm of the crowds. Through Gilmore, Rush became friends with Clarksdale musician Ike Turner. His band, Bobby Rush and the Four Jivers, consisted of Gilmore, Walker, Pinetop Perkins, and Robert Plunkett. It was here that Rush would become friends with Elmore James, the slide player Boyd Gilmore (James's cousin), and the piano player Johnny "Big Moose" Walker eventually forming a band to support his singing and harmonica and guitar playing. Around 1947, he and the family moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where his father took on the pastorate of a church and was a farmer. As a young child he began experimenting with music using a sugarcane syrup bucket and a broom-wire diddley bow. His father was a pastor whose guitar and harmonica playing provided early musical influences. Rush is the son of Emmett and Mattie Ellis. He is inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, and Rhythm & Blues Music Hall of Fame. Rush has won twelve Blues Music Awards and in 2017, at the age of 83, he won his first Grammy Award for the album Porcupine Meat. His style incorporates elements of blues, rap, and funk. in Homer, Louisiana on November 10, 1933) is an American blues musician, composer, and singer.
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