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Barbecue Bob is a Blues act. Their sound grew out of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Curley Weaver, Blind Blake and Charley Patton. Those roots explain a lot about how Barbecue Bob arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Kokomo Arnold, Papa Charlie Jackson, Willie Brown, Ishman Bracey and Jesse Fuller, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Buddy Moss, Curley Weaver, Reverend Gary Davis, Eric Clapton and John Fahey, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 14 connections around Barbecue Bob, reaching back through Blind Lemon Jefferson and forward to Buddy Moss. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Robert Hicks, 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.
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Barbecue Bob connections
Barbecue Bob grew out of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Curley Weaver, Blind Blake and Charley Patton, shares an orbit with Kokomo Arnold, Papa Charlie Jackson, Willie Brown and Ishman Bracey, went on to shape Buddy Moss, Curley Weaver, Reverend Gary Davis and Eric Clapton. 14 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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