Watch blues legend Bobby Rush live this month via WTJU
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 Bobby Rush Raw: An Intimate Night of Stories and Songs.
Get your tickets here for this live webstreaming performance. A portion of the ticket price benefits WTJU.
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 Dolemite Is My Name, the Rudy Ray Moore biopic featuring Eddie Murphy as Moore. Rush kicked off 2020 with the release of “Dolemite Kid,” a single inspired by his nine years on tour with Moore, his day working with Murphy, and the hit film itself.
