Introduction -- Part 1. Son -- Hay wire -- Give and take -- Skin -- The beautiful gifts -- Sing it again, Daddy -- Something in the soil -- The money of nature -- Mule hustle -- Joe Jesus -- New -- Sherrill -- Just a boy -- Pictures in my head -- Trust and choices -- Enormous energy -- Leaving home -- What's left unsaid -- Shot -- A drive to Tutwiler -- You gotta git -- What a life -- The way in -- I've gotta name -- Going to a house party -- Juke -- Mud, Walter, and Jimmy -- The kid -- Benefits of being a bullshitter -- Part 2. Chicago, by way of Memphis -- Cityfied -- My fake Cousin Otis -- Hazel -- Howlin' from the heavens -- Chitlins -- White devils, green money -- Heard and not seen -- Sober living -- The bottle, Papa Charley, Daddy, and me -- Integrate? What's that? -- JB -- The Little Rock talk -- Little Walter -- Muddy -- Respect the people -- Hot dog -- Rock Island -- Someday -- Barber shop mud -- Oh Lord, what am I gonna do? -- Didn't even start her race -- Vee-jay -- The best thing that ever happened to me -- MLK -- Bobby's barbecue house -- Bobby Rush's gotta brand-new dance -- Hope, dead or alive -- Ray -- Thrashin' -- Close -- My kinda song -- When we lost the ladies -- Embarrassed and embraced -- Please, Lord, not my face -- Exposure of a whole nother color, brother -- I'm sure -- I hope -- I believe -- Rush hour -- Little Milton's word to the wise -- A different yardstick -- Sue -- Down-home smash -- Ghost of Mississippi -- The big girls -- Eye for eye, tit for tat -- A joyful blues -- What's poured into your pitcher? -- I ain't studdin' ya -- Oakdale prison -- Old friends -- New friends -- The blues we keep -- Wichita mercy -- Century's end -- Part 3. My people -- Dustin' off the harp -- Misery and the miles -- Simple things -- Brighter lights, same cities -- The king of the chitlin circuit -- Folk funk -- Bobby Rush Inc. -- Southern energy -- Pride and joy -- Katrina -- Honors of the heart -- China -- Missed Rufus -- Last train home -- Jeff -- Blinddog and Dr. John -- Haunted -- Big-pond vision -- Magic bag -- Champagne -- Denise -- Home again -- Sitting on top of the blues -- Down-home love -- Last men standing -- But I didn't cross out -- Hey, Bobby Rush -- My way and the way of patience -- Junior.