Bobby Rush

EP 71 – Bobby Rush Podcast

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Meet the King of the Chitlin’ Circuit: Bobby Rush. The Grammy Award winning artist has recorded almost 400 songs in close to 70 years. He’ll be 87 years old this November, and even though he doesn’t do over 200 shows a year any more, you can still find him out there working whatever room he’s in.

This month, Bobby released Sitting on ‘Top of the Blues’, his 26th studio album and 75th career release on Aug 16th. Bobby reflects on his legacy, his last encounter with B.B. King, a meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., and the importance of being himself as a performer.

 

Ep 71 | Bobby Rush Podcast

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Meet the King of the Chitlin’ Circuit: Bobby Rush. The Grammy Award winning artist has recorded almost 400 songs in almost 7 decades. At 77, he doesn’t do over 200 shows a year anymore, but you can still find him working whatever room he’s in.
This month, Bobby released ‘Sitting on Top of the Blues’, his 26th studio album and 75th career release. Bobby reflects on his legacy, his last encounter with B.B. King, a meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., and the importance of being himself as a performer.

Mulligan Stew June 4th 2016-Bobby Rush, Daniel Cross, and Terry Wickham Interviews

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DSC_0153This week on Mulligan Stew, Terry interviews blues legend Bobby Rush and award-winning Canadian filmmaker Daniel Cross about his feature documentary, I Am The Blues.

I Am the Blues – Trailer from EyeSteelFilm on Vimeo.
I Am The Blues takes you on a booze and blues-fueled journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta, and Moonshine-soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country. Cross visits the last original, 80-year-old blues devils (including Bobby Rush, LC Ulmer, Carol Fran, Barbara Lynn and many more) who are working without management and touring the Chitlin’ Circuit.
Cross is the founder of a prestigious, non-fiction production company called EyeSteelFilm, and he first made his mark by directing feature length films about homelessness. Cross will talk about writing and directing the film, and Bobby Rush will talk about having his long and successful career become the focus of a documentary.
The film is set to premiere in Toronto on June 3, and is playing at the Medicine Hat Public Library Theatre on June 20 and at the Sled Island Film Festival in Calgary on June 26.
 
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At 6:30pm MT Terry chats with Edmonton Folk Music Festival producer Terry Wickham. Terry has been the producer since 1989, and he will share his thoughts about this year’s lineup as well as crucial festival background info.
 

PLAYLIST:

Mulligan Stew – 20 years of music www.mulliganstew.ca
Checkin up on my baby Tay Mahal In Progress and in Motion
Someday baby Bob Dylan Modern Times
Nobody rules you Danny Michel Mata Dora
Boy from Tupelo Emmy Lou harris Red dirt girl
Mulligan Stew – 20 years of music www.canadahouse.com NEXT – Boz Scaggs
Hell to pay Boz Scaggs A fool to care
TD Mulligan – Mulligan Stew @ckua NEXT – I AM the Blues
Bobby Rush and Daniel Cross (Director) I am the Blues (documentary) Screening dates on mulliganstew.ca
Everybody knows who I am Bobb Rush Youtube
Bobby Rush and Daniel Cross (Director) I am the Blues (documentary)
Stagger Lee Henry Gray single
Bobby Rush and Daniel Cross (Director) I am the Blues (documentary) Screening dates on mulliganstew.ca
Thrill is gone Kingfish Ingram youtube
Bobby Rush and Daniel Cross (Director) I am the Blues (documentary)
TD Mulligan – Mulligan Stew @ckua www.mulliganstew.ca Coming UP – Terry Wickham
Money Blues LC Ulmar youtube
Rollin and Tumblin Tedeschi-Trucks band Everybody’s talkin’“
Mulligan Stew – 20 years of music PLAYLIST – www.mulliganstew.ca Coming UP – Terry Wickham
Fio on the Bayou The Meters Funkify your life
One way road John Butler Trio April Uprising
The Werewolf Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger
There must be abetter world Irma Thomas A tribute to Doc Pomus
Mulligan Stew – 20 years of music www.Coyotesbanff.com Coming UP – Terry Wickham
I will be there Eric Clapton (and George harrison) I still do
Try a little Tenderness Etta James The Matriarch of the Blues
Mulligan Stew – 20 years of music PLAYLIST – www.mulliganstew.ca NEXT – Terry Wickham
Guest – Terry Wickham – Producer of Edmonton Folk festival
Mike Farris Shine for All the people
SOB Nathaniel Rateleff abnd the Night Sweats Live on Fallon
Guest – Terry Wickham – Producer of Edmonton Folk festival
It ain;t me babe River Whyless Youtube
Guest – Terry Wickham – Producer of Edmonton Folk festival