- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 54 min., 18 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Blues musician Emmett "Bobby Rush" Ellis, Jr. was born on November, 10, 1933 in Haynesville, Louisiana to Mattie Spivey Ellis and Emmett Ellis, Sr. He received his first guitar at seven years old, and learned to sing and play the blues from his father. At eleven years old, Ellis left school to work at a cotton gin. He began performing in Arkansas in 1950, and then moved to Chicago, Illinois. There, he formed Bobby Rush and the Four Jivers, and briefly recorded with Chess Records. Ellis went on to learn from the noted blues guitarists Jimmy Reed and J.B. Lenoir. He also integrated Chicago's Bourbon Street nightclub in 1954. With the club owner's help, Ellis secured the rights to his music from Chess Records. Ellis was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2006, and his album Porcupine Meat won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 2017.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Emmett "Bobby Rush" Ellis, Jr.
- Emmett "Bobby Rush" Ellis, Jr.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1083205205
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Emmett "Bobby Rush" Ellis, Jr.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
015418
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Randall Pinkston, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Jackson, Mississippi 2017 December 12.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Blues Musician.
- Added Author
Rush, Bobby, interviewee.
Pinkston, Randall, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.