The album won a GRAMMY® Award for “Best Traditional Blues Album”, his second GRAMMY® Award and sixth nomination. With the release of his 2020 album ‘Rawer Than Raw’, an all-acoustic effort that pays tribute to the rich blues history of Mississippi, Rush has cemented his reputation as one of the preeminent bluesmen in the world, one of the last living links to the music’s glorious past, and an inspiration for its future stars. Rush kicked off 2020 with the release of “Dolemite Kid,” a single inspired by his nine years on tour with Moore, his day working with Murphy, and the hit film itself. To cap off 2019 he had a cameo in the Golden Globe-nominated Netflix original film “Dolemite Is My Name”, the Rudy Ray Moore biopic featuring Eddie Murphy as Moore. He has recorded for more than 20 labels, from Checker/Chess and ABC to Philly Int’l and Rounder/Concord. Rush is one of the last Black bluesmen from the class to emerge out of and triumph in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. In 2019, at age 85, he released ‘Sitting on Top of the Blues’ with 11 originals, earning him another Blues Music Award and GRAMMY® Award nomination. He’s finally telling his story in his autobiography ‘I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya: My American Blues Story’ which came out June 22 of this year.
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