Bobby Rush has "never been so nervous in my life" as when he was quarantined at home in Mississippi last month with COVID-19 symptoms.
The 86-year-old Grammy Award-winning blues veteran is back on his feet and ready to make some new music -- soon, he hopes. But he tells Billboard that he's never been as sick as he was starting in late February and has never been as scared as he was during several weeks of self-quarantine at his home in Jackson. "It wasn't so much my life I was worried about," Rush says. "It was about my grandchildren, my great grandchildren, the nine people in my band -- everyone who depends on me.
That bothered me. The whole time I was sick I thought, 'Oh God, what's gonna happen to these people around me?'" Rush, who was