![]() ![]() "Real hunger! Hey Man, we all need some money, ha? (Laughs). It comes almost natural for our website to ask to this incredible musician and humble gentleman what is the secret behind your artistic and physical remarkable longevity. To these days, this living American music legend is still doing something like 200 live shows every year, an incredible achievement for this 85-years old music hero.Īt first glance, Rush doesn't look in the slightest his age and, judging by the live performance that Bluebird Reviews will then witness shortly after the interview, Rush is most definitely living a second youth in many ways. in Homer, Louisiana, Rush had his first chart-topper in 1971 with the song called Chicken Heads and won his very first Grammy Award at the tender age of 83, thanks to an outstanding album called Porcupine Meat. You can therefore imagine Bluebird Reviews' thrill, when the opportunity came to have an audience in London, United Kingdom, with one of the very few surviving Blues heroes, the one and only Bobby Rush, somebody that has made of Blues, but also of Soul and Funk, his mission of life.īorn Emmett Ellis, Jr. and Freddie, Blues has gone through many different stages and evolution, during the last century but fundamentally, Blues at its very core always remains strictly linked to those artists that have lived and breathed the genre all the way, throughout their whole lives. Burnside, from Muddy Waters to Howlin' Wolf, from Leadbelly to Elmore James right through the three legendary King, Albert, B.B. A genre immediately associated to the history and tradition of a great country like the United States Of America but also to the tribulations and the hard times that the originators of said genre have been through in almost a century since the birth of Blues.įrom Son House to R.L. There are not many meaningful music genres in the world as the Blues.
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