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Bobby Rush Raw: An Intimate Night of Stories & Song Dew Drop Inn Revival presents GROOVE CITY 2024 Night Vfeaturing BOBBY RUSH: An Intimate Evening of Stories & Songs During his renowned stage show Bobby Rush frequently jumps high into the air, arms spread and legs tucked, only to land gracefully and return without a hitch to his dazzling routine. Its a move you might expect at a contemporary Rs downright shocking when you realize that Rush is in his late 80s.I never thought I would be here this long, says Rush. I was 83 years old before I won a Grammy, but its better late than never. I laugh about it, but Im so blessed and I surely never thought Id be making a living doing what Im doing. Im not just an old guy on my way out.Hardly. Rushs busy schedule includes headlining European festivals with his band and solo programs at venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center, and he just recorded an album of brand new material, All My Love For You, coming out via his own label Deep Rush Records in collaboration with Nashville-based Thirty Tigers. Over the last several years hes won a second Grammy, re-recorded his 1971 hit Chicken Heads together with his old friend Buddy Guy and young blues star Christone Kingfish Ingram, and written a critically acclaimed autobiography, I Aint Studdin You: My American Blues Story.That story began in rural Homer/Haynesville, Louisiana, where Rushborn Emmett Ellis, Jr. grew up on his familys farm picking cotton, tending to mules and chickens, and living in a home without electricity nor indoor plumbing. He built his first guitar on the side of the familys house out of broom wire, nails, bottles and bricks.The blues, Rush recalls, provided an escape from the cotton fields. Youd go out on Saturday night to the juke joints, but then on Monday morning youd go back into the cotton fields to work for your bossman.An eternally youthful Rush was even able to play himself in the 1970s in Netflixs 2019 hit biopic Dolemite is My Name in a scene with Eddie Murphy. And the recognition keeps coming. In addition to his two Grammy wins (and six nominations), hes in the Blues Hall of Fame, has won 16 Blues Music Awards (among 56 nominations), and theres currently a musical in development called Slippin Through The Cracks with sights on Broadway, recently co-written by Rush and playwright Stephen Lloyd Helper, who co-wrote the 7x Tony- nominated musical Smokey Joes Caf celebrating the songs of Lieber and Stoller.Rush is among the pioneering artists who performed here at the legendary Dew Drop Inn Hotel & Lounge during its mid-century hey day.Join us tonight as Bobby returns to the Dew Drop stage for the first time in more than 50 years for his exclusive performance during New Orleans Jazz Fest week 2024! Advance tickets strongly suggested. 7:00pm Doors | 8:00pm Show 21+
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