Barbecue Bob
Robert Hicks (September 11, 1902 – October 21, 1931), known as Barbecue Bob, was an American Piedmont blues musician who played 12 string guitar which was popular in the Atlanta, Georgia, area at the time. A record talent scout gave him his nickname because he worked as a cook in a barbecue restaurant. One of the two existing photographs of him shows him playing his guitar and wearing a full length, white apron and cook's hat.
Genre: blues, country-blues, ragtime, classic-blues
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Top Tracks
- Barbecue Blues
- Chocolate to the Bone
- Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
- Untitled
- Motherless Chile Blues
- Cloudy Sky Blues
- Yo Yo Blues
- Poor Boy a Long Ways from Home
- We Sure Got Hard Times
- Honey You Don't Know My Mind
- Ease It to Me Blues
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- Me and My Whiskey
- Yo Yo Blues
- Barbeque Blues
- She Moves It Just Right
- Black Skunk Blues
- It Just Won't Hay
- She Shook Her Gin
- Me and My Whiskey
Albums (45)
- Barbecue Blues: The Raw Voice of Robert Hicks (2025)
- Blues (2024)
- Atlanta Blues (2021)
- Top 70 Classics - The Very Best of Barbecue Bob (2019)
- Blues Roots, Vol. 3 (2018)
- American Epic: The Collection (2017)
- Rough Guide to Gospel Blues (2016)
- Rough Guide to Bottleneck Blues (2016)
- Atlanta Moan - The Best Of Barbecue Bob (2015)
- Rough Guide to Barbecue Bob (2015)
- Rough Guide to East Coast Blues (2015)
- Chef's Blues (2015)
- Masterpieces Presents Barbecue Bob: 10 Greatest Blues Hits (2014)
- Atlanta Moan (2014)
- Alcohol Coke & Gin (2014)
- A Short Cut to the Grave (2014)
- 125 Country Legends (2014)
- All Time Legends of Country Music (2014)
- Rough Guide to Blind Willie Johnson (2013)
- Rough Guide to Blind Lemon Jefferson (2013)
- Old Folk & Country Soundtrack (2012)
- Blues Essentials (2011)
- The Best Of Slide Guitar Blues - Guitar Rag (2010)
- Saga Blues: Voodoo Blues "Hoodoo & Magical Practices" (2009)
- The Panic Is On: The Great American Depression As Seen By The Common Man (2009)
- Hard Times Come Again No More: Early American Rural Songs Of Hard Times And Hardships, Vol. 1 (2006)
- Country Blues Bottleneck Guitar Classics 1926-1937 (2006)
- Document Shortcuts Vol. 3 - My Babe (2005)
- Southern Blues - Volume 2 (1970)
- Barbecue Blues (1970)
- Hard Times Come Again No More: Early American Rural Songs Of Hard Times And Hardships, Vol. 2 (1998)
- Before The Blues, Vol. 3: The Early American Black Music Scene (1996)
- Gospel, Vol. 3: Guitar Evangelists and Bluesmen 1927-1944 (1970)
- The Great Depression - American Music In The 30's (1993)
- The Voice Of The Blues: Bottleneck Guitar Masterpieces (1992)
- Chocolate To The Bone (1992)
- The Georgia Blues (1927-1933) (1991)
- Barbecue Bob Vol. 3 (1929 - 1930) (1970)
- Barbecue Bob Vol. 2 (1928 - 1929) (1970)
- Barbecue Bob Vol. 1 (1927 - 1928) (1970)
- Yo Yo Blues (1930)
- Presenting Barbecue Bob (1927)
- Collection (1927)
- Cold Wave Blues (1926)
- Cold and Cloudy (1926)
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