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EXCLUSIVE: Grammy-winning blues musician Bobby Rush, caller disconnected Oscar victor Sinners, is nan taxable of caller documentary King of nan Chitlin’ Circuit.
The 92-year-old blues vet performed nan harmonica parts for nan characteristic of Delta Slim successful Sinners and precocious took portion successful nan on-stage Oscar nighttime capacity for nan movie.
The doc, which is owed to aerial connected Mississippi Public Broadcasting successful August, will floor plan Rush’s seven-decades profession and individual journey. Directed by Al Warren and produced by Taiwo Gaynor, nan doc changeable complete 2 years “captures nan highs and lows of a bluesman’s life connected nan road, from performances to late-night reflections and nan quiet moments successful between”.
A Blues Hall of Famer pinch 3 Grammy wins, Rush has been singing, playing, composing, and producing since nan early 1950s. He grew up successful 1930s Louisiana connected a workplace picking fabric and surviving successful a agrarian location without energy aliases indoor plumbing. His style incorporates Mississippi Delta blues, funk, and confederate soul, and he has performed pinch artists including Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed, James Brown, Little Richard and BB King.
Rush has antecedently featured successful nan The Blues docuseries directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Clint Eastwood, nan 2014 documentary Take Me to nan River, and Netflix’s 2019 biopic Dolemite is My Name, earlier collaborating pinch Ryan Coogler and Delroy Lindo connected Sinners, astir notably successful nan opus Juke, a duet pinch Miles Caton’s characteristic Sammie.
“I wish I’d had nan chance to do thing for illustration this erstwhile I was a young man, but it’s ne'er excessively precocious to show your communicative and definitive really you feel,” said Rush. “This movie captures things astir maine that I mightiness ne'er person shared. My dream is that this becomes 1 of nan top things that’s ever happened not conscionable to me, but to immoderate Black man successful my position— and really, to anyone, Black aliases white, from Mississippi to Maine, who wants to show their story.”
“I grew up successful Jackson, Mississippi where Bobby Rush moved done nan aerial for illustration weather,” said director/editor Al Warren. “I didn’t cognize his history yet, but I knew his look from nan newspaper, his sanction from billboards, and nan consciousness that a man pinch assurance for illustration that could tilt a full municipality a fewer degrees. Later I decided I wanted to follow Bobby and represent him arsenic he is: an otherworldly talent, a world traveler, an creator everlastingly successful motion. The movie is simply a snapshot of his life and nan tone that keeps Bobby Rush in mobility and refuses to dim.”
Producer Taiwo Gaynor added: “One of nan astir impactful things Bobby shared pinch maine during his first question and reply for nan movie was erstwhile asked, ‘what is nan astir important point successful life,’ Bobby took a fewer moments and said, ‘the astir important point successful my life is to still person my memory. Not money aliases status, but memories’, because he knew, who you are is tied to your memories and nan stories that unrecorded there.”
Rush is repped by 72 Music Mgmt and nan Kurland Agency.
