Blues legend Bobby Rush on the song that changed his life

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The Song That Changed My Life is a segment that gives us the chance to talk with some of our favorite artists about the music that made them who they are today. This time around, we're joined by a blues great – Bobby Rush. When he got his start, he played with other greats like Jimmy Reed, Buddy Guy and Howlin' Wolf. The song that changed his life was recorded by another close friend of his – Little Walter. The song? My Babe. Bobby's latest record All My Love For You is out now.

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0:30.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn, time now for the song that changed my life.
0:53.9	And on deck, we have Bobby Rush.
1:23.9	Bobby Rush is a blues guy, Chicago Blues, specifically.
1:52.2	He hung out and played with Jimmy Reed, Buddy Guy, and Helen Wolfe.
1:57.2	And whereas Reed, Guy, and Wolfe were virtuosos at their instruments, scholars of the blues, Bobby Rush was something different.
2:06.2	Audacious, funny, eclectic, and a legendary songwriter.
2:10.2	Here's his 1991 hit, I ain't studying you.
2:14.2	I ain't studying you.
2:18.2	I tell you, I ain't studying you.
2:24.2	Bump folks in my warm and lovely, and some folks said sit down, but I don't make no damn dip along as I'm getting by I won't.
2:35.2	I ain't studying you.
2:38.2	I tell you, I ain't studying you.
2:45.2	If you think I'm only my one because what somebody said, you must be crazy dope.
2:53.2	Out of your dope don't hear, I ain't studying you.
2:57.2	Bobby Rush is now 89 years old.
2:59.2	He is not slowing down.
3:01.2	When a Grammy for his 2017 album, Porcupine Meet, it was his first, and earlier this year he released all my love for you.
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