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Blues You Can Use – 71 – 1989 Midnight Run – 26 – 1991 Portrait of the Blues – 50 – 1993 Years of Tears – 80 – 1995 Sad Street – – 11 1998 Memphis Monday Morning – – 12 2003 Blues at Midnight – – 4 "–" denotes releases that did not chart.
Before the release of their debut studio album, Young Man's Blues, in 1988, the band assumed the aliases Delta City Angels and Delta Rebels due to conflict with a gospel group of the same name. However, the name was reverted prior to the album's release. In 1990, the band began recording demos for a second album titled Lost Generation. They ...
Supersonic Blues Machine (On the album West of Flushing South of Frisco, 2016) Zeshan B (On album, Vetted, 2017) Black Pumas (On the album Black Pumas Deluxe Edition Exclusive 2LP+7", released 2020) DJ Khaled (Sampled on the intro track "THANKFUL", on the album Khaled Khaled, released 2021) Gov't Mule (on the album Heavy Load Blues, released 2021)
Rush puts it all together on Sitting on Top of the Blues. A lifetime of music is distilled into 11 superbly realized originals that span the gap between the earthiest delta blues to West Coast funk." [1] In Blues Blast Magazine, Steve Jones said, "This is prototypical Bobby Rush. A powerful and soulful recording, Rush songs like a young man ...
Composed by Bobby Charles "Wrong Lake to Catch a Fish" Composed by Chuck Willis: 1997 "Walkin' Blues" Absolute Blues Vol. 1 "Sure Is a Good Thing" Absolute Blues Vol. 2: With Doug Sahm and Gene Taylor 2001 "Bert's Boogie" 25 Years of Stony Plain: Composed by Amos Garrett 2006 "Sam's Song (The Happy Tune)" 30 Years of Stony Plain
The album was critically and commercially successful. It produced two singles, "I Pity The Fool" and "Don't Cry No More", which charted at number 1 and 2 on the Billboard R&B chart, respectively. Two Steps from the Blues was ranked at number 217 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. [1]
Of all of the group's albums, it is their most successful, in that it achieved the highest chart placings on the U.S. Billboard 200 and R&B albums charts, as well as in New Zealand, where it peaked at No. 30. [2]
Many blues songs were developed in American folk music traditions and individual songwriters are sometimes unidentified. [1] Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft noted: In the case of very old blues songs, there is the constant recourse to oral tradition that conveyed the tune and even the song itself while at the same time evolving for several decades.