touches down this weekend at Continental Club, a week before Christmas. In a phone interview with Rush this week, we suggested he might even be a Christmas present for some folks, their stockings happily filled with tickets to his Saturday night set. As we learned in our chat – and as we already knew from Rush’s long, Grammy-winning, no-signs-of-stopping career – he is simply the gift that keeps on giving.
“I’ve been blessed. Up until the pandemic hit, I did work on 285 shows a year for about 65 years and that kept me going and kept me selling records, because I could sell records off the bandstand,” he added. “Now, I’m back at work now. The pandemic came in and made us be off for a couple of years, maybe three years, and slowed it way down, but we’re getting to go back to work somewhat now, you know?”Rawer Than Raw“I’m a blessed man.
“It’s gonna be storytelling and doing my songs,” he noted. “It’s gonna be a great show and thank God I can deliver those kind of things. I can be just as good with one or two on stage as I am on stage with 10 people.” “For me – as a musician, as a blues singer, as a Black man – a lot of things have changed but so many things have remained the same. I’m a little bit different from most people that’s in this business and I came up in a hard way, but God has really blessed me to be able to do what I do and do it well. And I’m good at what I do. And I tell young people coming up, especially Black people coming up, be good at what you do and be good business-minded people in the business side of it.
“Me and Buddy Guy talk about this all the time. I just love Buddy Guy. But the average 25 year-old Black person has never heard of Buddy Guy. But the whites have. I’m on both sides of the fence,” he said. “30, 40 years ago most of the white people didn’t know about me. Now, it’s almost an equal thing.
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