NY Times article , Grammy for Rawer than Raw ( spotify ), memoir coming out. His wikipedia page shows he seemed to put out a new album most years after 1990. His first album came out in 1979. He's 87 year young, so his first album came out when he was 45. He was born in 1933 in Louisiana. He's not sure when he was born, though, "“All I know is in 1947, I was plowing in the field with a mule,” he said." (NYT) "His book offers three possible birth years — 1940, 1937 and 1934. Rush claims not to know the answer." His father was a pastor who moved to Arkansas around 1947. Part of what will be interesting in his memoir will be what he says about historical figures in the blues, like Elmore James who died in 1963. James had players in his band who played with Robert Johnson . In 1953, when Rush was 20, his family moved to Chicago, where he became part of the blues scene. In one gig, he played behind a screen for a white audience. Can you imagine that? "In ...