![]() ![]() So, I went and got me a pencil and paper because I figured if my daddy couldn't tell it to me, he could draw it and tell me what he saw. So, I hid the guitar because I wanted to play the blues man! One day he said, "Junior, bring that guitar here boy," I brought the guitar to him and he said, "Let me play a little song that I used to play for a little girl when I was a little bit older than you." Well, I thought he was gonna sing about my mother or "Glory, glory hallelujah, when I laid my burden down " he didn't sing about my mother, he didn't sing "Glory, glory hallelujah," he sang, "Me and my girl with the Chunky Pin on, she fell down and I saw somethin'" and I said, man, Daddy! In my little mind, I wanted to know the next verse if she fell down and he saw somethin', I wanted to know what he saw and I couldn't ask my daddy what is was. ![]() "My daddy was a preacher and a pastor of a church and my cousin gave me a guitar and I hid it because I didn't want my daddy to know that I had a guitar because simply, I was afraid my dad was gonna want me to play gospel in the church. "Let me take you way back to when I was about eight or nine years old," he began with a warning and an infectious laugh. Rush, born Emmett Ellis Jr and who will be 90 years of age come this November, has been a blues enthusiast and performer from a very young age and over the course of his celebrated lifetime has won two Grammy Awards, 14 Blues Music Awards, been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and has had roles and cameo appearances in multiple motion pictures.īorn in Homer/haynesville, Louisiana, Rush developed his interest in blues music more from curiosity than almost anything else. ![]() So, we've been blessed to be in the running six or eight times and we've won two of them and hopefully this will put us in the ball game for a nomination if not a win," states best described as legendary blues man Bobby Rush as he discusses his new album, "All My Love For You," how he got interested in blues music and more. "I did an acoustic thing and I won last year and the year before that I won the "Album Of The Year" in the blues category. ![]()
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