Bobby Rush

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Bobby Rush, wearing a white suit, energetically sings into a microphone onstage at night, with colorful stage lights and band equipment visible in the background.

Bobby Rush

American musician

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Chitlin Circuit
Venues and entertainers of the Chitlin Circuit
…new talent, such as bluesman Bobby Rush, whose decades of touring in blues joints around the South earned him the nickname “King of the Chitlin Circuit.” Beginning in the 1970s a new generation of comedians came up in clubs on the circuit, including Rudy Ray Moore (better known as Dolemite),…
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…new talent, such as bluesman Bobby Rush, whose decades of touring in blues joints around the South earned him the nickname “King of the Chitlin Circuit.” Beginning in the 1970s a new generation of comedians came up in clubs on the circuit, including Rudy Ray Moore (better known as Dolemite),…
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