Showing posts with label Eddie Ray. Show all posts
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August 20, 2023

Heard lately #1 - Bobby Rush, Eddie Ray, Little Smokey Smothers, Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder, The Neville Brothers Live, Zac Harmon

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Bobby Rush - All My Love For You (2023)

All I knew was his name seen here and there in articles and reviews, and this album is a very, very good surprise. Horn fueled soul blues from top to bottom, with some R'n'B numbers like “One Monkey Can Stop a Show”, as Louisiana (where Rush was born in 1933 as Emmett Ellis Jr.) can produce.

A prolific songwriter, Rush signs all the tracks (including “TV Mama”, not to be mistaken with the same and often covered title from Lou Willie Turner aka Luella Brown, Big Joe Turner's wife). Two lively titles stand out , “I'm Free” and “I'm The One”, about blues music, which sound largely autobiographical.