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Barbecue Bob Vol 1 1927 - 1928 Robert Hicks "Barbecue Bob", vocal, twelve-string guitar.
Genres; Country Blues, Atlanta Blues, Twelve-String Guitar, Bottleneck-slide Guitar. Informative booklet notes by Chris Smith. Detailed discography.
Robert Hicks was an extrovert young man of 24 when Columbia's Dan Hornsby arranged his first recording session in March 1927, and had only moved into Atlanta from the countryside a few years before. When he recorded He had learned guitar, along with their friend Curley Weaver, from Curley's mother; all three played in a similar style, favouring the big, booming sound of the 12-string guitar, and relishing the contrast of pulsing bass riffs with the whine of a bottleneck on the treble strings. Barbecue Blues was a good seller, but it was at his second session, in New York in June 1927, that Bob firmly established himself with black record buyers, and thus with Columbia; Mississippi Heavy Water Blues, inspired by the catastrophic floods that had occurred that very month, was a considerable seller, and as a result Robert became Atlanta's most-recorded blues singer of the 20s. It was probably his success that persuaded Columbia to record both his brother Charlie and, in 1928, Curley Weaver. Continued... More Info on our New Store >> |
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Barbecue Bob Vol 3 1929 - 1930 Barbecue Bob (Robert Hicks), vocal, twelve-string guitar. Genres: Country Blues, Georgia Blues, Bottleneck-slide Guitar, Country Blues Harmonica. Columbia’s field recording trips to the South took place twice a year from 1925 to 1930, in the spring and the late fall; having collected eight songs (of which they issued six) from Barbecue Bob in November 1929, they returned as usual in April 1930. On this occasion, Bob’s brother Charlie Lincoln made his only recorded appearance under his real name on the comic dialogues Darktown Gamblin’, which were credited to Robert & Charlie Hicks. Barbecue Bob was still a hot property as far as Columbia were concerned... Continued... More Info on our New Store >> |
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