Williamsburg Regional Library

I ain't studdin' ya, my American blues story, Bobby Rush ; with Herb Powell

eng

Includes discography (pages 283-285) and index

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I ain't studdin' ya

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Bobby Rush ; with Herb Powell

my American blues story

Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R and B legends. Emmett Ellis Jr. acquired his first real guitar, adopted the stage name "Bobby Rush" and started playing juke joints in Little Rock, Arkansas, as a teenager barely old enough to sneak through the door. He relocated to Chicago in the 1960s, and crafted his own distinct style of funky blues. And he hasn't stopped since. Here Rush shares eyewitness accounts of the legends of American music and culture, giving readers a backstage pass to a fascinating life in the music industry. -- adapted from jacket

Introduction -- Part 1. Son -- Hay wire -- Give and take -- Skin -- The beautiful gifts -- Sing it again, Daddy -- Something in the soil -- The money of nature -- Mule hustle -- Joe Jesus -- New -- Sherrill -- Just a boy -- Pictures in my head -- Trust and choices -- Enormous energy -- Leaving home -- What's left unsaid -- Shot -- A drive to Tutwiler -- You gotta git -- What a life -- The way in -- I've gotta name -- Going to a house party -- Juke -- Mud, Walter, and Jimmy -- The kid -- Benefits of being a bullshitter -- Part 2. Chicago, by way of Memphis -- Cityfied -- My fake Cousin Otis -- Hazel -- Howlin' from the heavens -- Chitlins -- White devils, green money -- Heard and not seen -- Sober living -- The bottle, Papa Charley, Daddy, and me -- Integrate? What's that? -- JB -- The Little Rock talk -- Little Walter -- Muddy -- Respect the people -- Hot dog -- Rock Island -- Someday -- Barber shop mud -- Oh Lord, what am I gonna do? -- Didn't even start her race -- Vee-jay -- The best thing that ever happened to me -- MLK -- Bobby's barbecue house -- Bobby Rush's gotta brand-new dance -- Hope, dead or alive -- Ray -- Thrashin' -- Close -- My kinda song -- When we lost the ladies -- Embarrassed and embraced -- Please, Lord, not my face -- Exposure of a whole nother color, brother -- I'm sure -- I hope -- I believe -- Rush hour -- Little Milton's word to the wise -- A different yardstick -- Sue -- Down-home smash -- Ghost of Mississippi -- The big girls -- Eye for eye, tit for tat -- A joyful blues -- What's poured into your pitcher? -- I ain't studdin' ya -- Oakdale prison -- Old friends -- New friends -- The blues we keep -- Wichita mercy -- Century's end -- Part 3. My people -- Dustin' off the harp -- Misery and the miles -- Simple things -- Brighter lights, same cities -- The king of the chitlin circuit -- Folk funk -- Bobby Rush Incorporated -- Southern energy -- Pride and joy -- Katrina -- Honors of the heart -- China -- Missed Rufus -- Last train home -- Jeff -- Blinddog and Dr. John -- Haunted -- Big-pond vision -- Magic bag -- Champagne -- Denise -- Home again -- Sitting on top of the blues -- Down-home love -- Last men standing -- But I didn't cross out -- Hey, Bobby Rush -- My way and the way of patience -- Junior

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I am not studding youI ain't studding youMy American blues story