LOS ANGELES, Calif. — When you’ve played with Elmore James, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Jimmy Reed, you must be on to something. When you’ve had a multi-generational career in music, spanning blues, soul and funk, that’s something else.
Bobby Rush’s incredible half century of recorded music is ready to be devoured by those who’ve never tasted and those who want another helping on Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History of Bobby Rush, due out November 27, 2015 on Omnivore Recordings.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — When you’ve played with Elmore James, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Jimmy Reed, you must be on to something. When you’ve had a multi-generational career in music, spanning blues, soul and funk, that’s something else.
Bobby Rush’s incredible half century of recorded music is ready to be devoured by those who’ve never tasted and those who want another helping on Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History of Bobby Rush, due out November 27, 2015 on Omnivore Recordings.
Nearly 100 tracks from the three-time Grammy® nominee’s storied career are finally collected in this unprecedented set. Including his Checker, Galaxy, and Jewel sides through Philadelphia International, Malaco/Waldoxy, LaJam, and Urgent cuts, as well as material from his own Deep Rush label, Chicken Heads tells the story of Bobby Rush: unfiltered, unedited and unbelievable. With almost five hours of music on four CDs, Chicken Heads traces his career from 1964’s “Someday” through the title track, from 1979 collaborations with Gamble & Huff to tracks from 2004’s FolkFunk.
This sounds like it is going to be a terrific collection, so we’re proud to be presenting the Digital World Premiere of a fun and funky song Bobby recorded forty years ago, “Gotta Be Funky.” Bobby says about the song, "When someone asks me when wearing hair long and playing music funky when I was a bluesman...I said: Momma doesn't like the way I wear my hair because it looks funky, or like smoke because it smells funky, everything I do has to be funky. It wasn't talking about something stinking. It was talking about being cool, being funky, being hip. Everything I do has to be funky. I wasn't talking about funky music, I was talking about a funky kind of a guy. In other wards he's cool, he's got it going on. Anything I do has to be funky. I may be old, but I have young fashioned ways...anything I do gotta be funky."
Listen to “Gotta Be Funky” below and get ready to check out this great collection.
Digital World Premiere
Bobby Rush – “Gotta Be Funky”