Bobby Rush: "Hoochie Coochie Man Medley" - Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival (2014)

Recorded at the Crescent Blues & Barbecue Festival, October 2014. “…the man known as ‘The King of the Chitlin Circuit’… a man who deserves being mentioned in the same context as the blues greats Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, and B.B. King.” – American Blues Scene At 80, Bobby Rush still has an energy level that fits his name. He’s a prolific songwriter and one of the most vital live performers in the blues, able to execute daredevil splits on stage with the finesse of a young James Brown while singing and playing harmonica and guitar. Those talents have earned him multiple Blues Music Awards including Soul Blues Album of the Year, Acoustic Album of the Year, and, almost perennially, Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year. “James Brown was just two years older than me, and we both focused on that funk thing, driving on that one-chord beat,” Rush says. “But James put modern words to it. I was walking the funk walk and talking the countrified blues talk — with the kinds of stories and lyrics that people who grew up down South listening to John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf and bluesmen like that could relate to. And that’s been my trademark.” http://wwoz.org http://bobbyrushbluesman.com