Shop Home / Shop / Barbecue Bob - Barbecue Blues -The Collection 1927-30 (2CD) Barbecue Bob - Barbecue Blues -The Collection 1927-30 (2CD) Barbecue Bob - Barbecue Blues -The Collection 1927-30 (2CD) £12.00 Stock Status: In Stock Add to your Wish List Information Specifications Listen Here Born Robert Hicks in Georgia in 1902, Barbecue Bob was an early exponent of the Piedmont style of blues, and was a contemporary around the Atlanta scene of artists like Blind Blake, Josh White, Curley Weaver, Blind Willie McTell, Buddy Moss and others. He had a distinctive guitar style, using the “frailing” technique as well as using a bottleneck on a 12-string guitar, and acquired his stage name because he was working as a barbecue chef when he did his first recordings, and publicity shots featured him in his chef’s outfit. His career was tragically curtailed when he died from tuberculosis and pneumonia in 1931 at the age of 29. This 47-track 2-CD collection comprises a significant proportion of his career recordings on the Columbia label, and includes recordings with his brother Charlie “Laughing Charley” Lincoln, and with Curley Weaver and Buddy Moss as The Georgia Cotton Pickers. It includes his “Motherless Child”, a song regularly performed by Eric Clapton, along with his famous song “Mississippi Heavy Water Blues”, inspired by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. He is one of those blues artists who is not widely known but whose music helps to appreciate the nuances of the Piedmont blues tradition. Disk 1: Track Title Artist 1 Barbecue Blues Barbecue Bob 2 Cloudy Sky Blues Barbecue Bob 3 Mississippi Heavy Water Blues Barbecue Bob 4 Mama, You Don't Suit Me Barbecue Bob 5 Jesus' Blood Can Make Me Whole Robert Hicks 6 Honey, You Don't Know My Mind Barbecue Bob 7 Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home Barbecue Bob 8 Brown Skin Gal Barbecue Bob 9 Easy Rider, Don't You Deny My Name Barbecue Bob 10 It Won't Be Long Now Barbecue Bob & Laughing Charley 11 Crooked Woman Blues Barbecue Bob 12 Fo Day Creep Barbecue Bob 13 Motherless Child Barbecue Bob 14 Goin' Up The Country Barbecue Bob 15 Mississippi Low Levee Blues Barbecue Bob 16 Way Cross Georgia Blues Barbecue Bob 17 Chocolate To The Bone Barbecue Bob 18 My Mistake Blues Barbecue Bob 19 Hurry And Bring It Back Home Barbecue Bob 20 Blind Pig Blues Barbecue Bob 21 Cold Wave Blues Barbecue Bob 22 Meat Man Pete Barbecue Bob 23 It's Just Too Bad Barbecue Bob Disk 2: Track Title Artist 1 It Just Won't Hay Barbecue Bob 2 It's A Funny Little Thing Barbecue Bob 3 Honey, You're Going Too Fast Barbecue Bob 4 Red Hot Mama, Papa's Going To Cool You Off Barbecue Bob 5 Good Time Rounder Barbecue Bob 6 Bad Time Blues Barbecue Bob 7 Trouble Done Bore Me Down Barbecue Bob 8 Yo Yo Blues Barbecue Bob 9 Freeze To Me Mama Barbecue Bob 10 Me And My Whiskey Barbecue Bob 11 Monkey And The Baboon Barbecue Bob 12 Darktown Gamblin' (The Crap Game) Robert & Charlie Hicks 13 Tellin' It To You Barbecue Bob 14 She Moves It Just Right Barbecue Bob 15 We Sure Got Hard Times Barbecue Bob 16 California Blues Barbecue Bob 17 Black Skunk Blues Barbecue Bob 18 She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day Georgia Cotton Pickers 19 Diddle Da Diddle Georgia Cotton Pickers 20 Jambooger Blues Barbecue Bob 21 Atlanta Moan Barbecue Bob 22 Doin' The Scraunch Barbecue Bob 23 I'm On My Way Down Home Georgia Cotton Pickers 24 It Just Won't Quit Barbecue Bob UPC: 824046349929 FORMAT: 2CD Release: February 2024 Brand: Acrobat Product Code: ADDCD3499 Weight: 0.12kg Related Products Blind Blake - The Paramount Years 1926-32 £15.00 Blind Willie McTell & The Regal Country Blues (2CD) £12.00 Buddy Moss - Oh Lordy Mama: The Buddy Moss Collection 1930-41 £12.00 Josh White - The Early Years Collection 1929-36 £12.00 Josh White Blues And Ballads £8.00
