{"id":9767,"date":"2016-01-06T05:45:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T05:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9767"},"modified":"2015-12-03T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T20:05:31","slug":"album-mini-review-bobby-rush-chicken-heads-a-50-year-history-of-bobby-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/06\/album-mini-review-bobby-rush-chicken-heads-a-50-year-history-of-bobby-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Bobby Rush &#8212; Chicken Heads: A 50 Year History of Bobby Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bobby_rush_chicken_heads.jpg\" alt=\"bobby_rush_chicken_heads\" width=\"300\" height=\"405\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9771\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bobby_rush_chicken_heads.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bobby_rush_chicken_heads-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B015RD2YSU&#038;asins=B015RD2YSU&#038;linkId=OAKYYYP4K6LPHW5Y&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File next to: James Brown, Buddy Guy, Otis Redding<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bobby Rush<\/strong>&#8216;s musical career has spanned fifty years, at least twenty record labels, and most American popular music genres. He&#8217;s tough to pigeonhole: Rush&#8217;s music encompasses soul, r&amp;b, funk, blues, and more. He&#8217;s earned several awards and scored chart singles. Compiling a career-spanning survey of his work is a daunting task, but that&#8217;s exactly what Omnivore Recordings has done here. Seventy-four tracks across four discs cover Rush&#8217;s music from a relatively slow start in the mid 1960s through his most fertile period in the 1970s and &#8217;80s. The gorgeous color booklet serves up loads of archival photos along with an informative <strong>Bill Dahl<\/strong> essay and a heartfelt introduction from the project&#8217;s coproducer <strong>Cary Baker<\/strong>. Rush deserves mention in the same breath as names like <strong>Otis Redding<\/strong> and <strong>James Brown<\/strong>. Still active today at age 82, with <i>Chicken Heads<\/i>, American treasure Bobby Rush is finally getting his due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: James Brown, Buddy Guy, Otis Redding Bobby Rush&#8216;s musical career has spanned fifty years, at least twenty record labels, and most American popular music genres. 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