Bobby Rush Wins Grammy Award For Best Traditional Blues Album

Bobby Rush Wins Grammy Award For Best Traditional Blues Album ‘All My Love For You’

Yesterday, Blues Hall of Famer, and 16-time Blues Music Awards winner Bobby Rush won a GRAMMY Award for Best Traditional Blues Album at the 66th annual GRAMMY Awards. Rush’s album All My Love For You is out now via Deep Rush Records / Thirty Tigers.The award marks Rush’s third GRAMMY win.

All My Love For You has been praised by All Things Considered, American Songwriter, American Songwriter, The Bluegrass Station, NPR Music, Rock & Blues Muse and more.

An album of ten original tunes written and produced by Rush, All My Love For You is semi-autobiographical. And rich history it is. Rush has led a fascinating life from being The King of the Chitlin Circuit, performing with Elmore James and B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters, to winning his first Grammy Award at age 83 for his album Porcupine Meat. Since then he’s only gotten better, more popular. His last album Rawer Than Raw also won a Grammy Award, followed by the re-recording of his 1971 hit Chicken Heads with Buddy Guy, Gov’t Mule and Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram. Not content to stop there, he wrote his critically acclaimed autobiography ‘I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya: My American Blues Story’.

Bobby Rush has been making records for nearly 70 years and has appeared on more than 400 recordings, 75 career releases, and 27 studio albums to his name. In 2021, he finally told his story in his autobiography I Ain’t Studdin’ Ya: My American Blues Story, which Kirkus Reviews called, “A fascinating story well told… A richly detailed account of a bluesman’s full life.” He has recorded for more than 20 labels, from Checker/Chess and ABC to Philly Int’l and Rounder/Concord.

All My Love For You won a Grammy Award For Best Traditional Blues Album

About All My Love For You, Rush explains: “I wanted to approach this album to be a collection of songs for how I got to where I am now. Sonically, I made albums in different directions recently like the solo acoustic Rawer than Raw and full production album Porcupine Meat. I wanted to do something that had the rawness in it, the commercial side of it, and have the Blackness and whiteness inside of it. I want to thank people for letting me be myself. Now I have crossed over but I haven’t crossed out. With the title, I wasn’t talking just about a woman, but everyone who has anything to do with Bobby Rush: the fans, the media, the promoters, the label and distributor, booking agents, management, and anyone else who has contributed to my life and career, this is All My Love For You.”