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Barbecue Blues -The Collection 1927-30

Barbecue Bob
Styles: Blues
Catalogue Number: ADDCD3499

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