[1][2][3][4] Sitting on Top of the Blues debuted at number 37 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart.

[6] On AllMusic, Mark Deming said, "The swampy funk that was a major part of Rush's musical personality in his salad days is in short supply on 2019's Sitting on Top of the Blues, but his gift for grafting together deep soul and barroom-ready blues is as strong as ever...

The arrangements and production are crisp and straightforward, without much in the way of instrumental showboating but full of taut guitar work and some fine harp blowing from Rush.

"[7] In All About Jazz, C. Michael Bailey wrote, "At 85 years old, Rush continues to sing with a virility and panache not afforded many decades younger....

A lifetime of music is distilled into 11 superbly realized originals that span the gap between the earthiest delta blues to West Coast funk.