1/18/2024 0 Comments Bobby rush them. blues. six hesBut if chitlin circuit was a thing that Black men like myself and Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, all these guys, we was paid chitlins. Well, white people who wrote about the chitlin circuit. I would see - Black people didn't write about the chiltin circuit. You started touring clubs, clubs that - like, this would later be known as the chitlin circuit. You eventually left home and settled in Chicago. RUSH: (Singing) When I woke up, the sky opened up and poured down with rain. I didn't know that until I got 12 years old before I knew about the black and white issue. KELLY: That's a lot for a child to carry. But I didn't know until I got older how devastating that was. She was a Black woman when she wanted to be or had to be. And if I look back on it now when she was white, when she wanted to be or had to be. And my daddy was - when he was around, he was her chauffeur and her husband and my father when we got home. RUSH: I just remember going to school or going out someplace, she would tell people that she was babysitting me. KELLY: When we sat down to chat, I started by asking about his childhood growing up in the Jim Crow South with a Black father and a mother who passed as white. Things I used to do down in Louisiana, I don't do no more. RUSH: (Singing) We come a long way, but I got a long way to go. At 89 years old, he is out now with a new album called "All My Love For You." He grew up to be a prolific blues musician, traveling in the same circles as B.B. KELLY: Young Bobby Rush made good on that promise. KELLY: Really? You knew when you were that little that's. Everything, everything, everything gonna be all right. RUSH: And, man, Lightnin' Hopkins or Muddy Waters, somebody come on. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "EVERYTHING GONNA BE ALRIGHT") At night when he goes to sleep, I would listening to John R., WLAC Radio. RUSH: My dad had been a preacher, and he had a old radio. (SOUNDBITE OF LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS SONG, "EVERYTHING GONNA BE ALRIGHT")
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