Barbecue Bob
1902-1931
Bob
Barbecue
1902-1931
Hicks, Robert
1902-1931
Hicks, Barbecue Bob
1902-1931
Barbeque Bob
1902-1931
Early downhome blues [SR] 1994: insert (Barbecue Bob)
Titon, J.T. Early downhome blues, c1994: p. 103, etc. (Barbecue Bob (Robert Hicks); b. 1902, Walton Co., Ga.; d. Oct. 21, 1931, Atlanta; vocalist and guitarist)
Before the blues [SR] p1996: container (Barbecue Bob) insert (Barbecue Bob Hicks)
Banker's blues [SR] p2009: label (Barbecue Bob) container (Barbeque Bob)
Encyclopedia of popular music, accessed online via Oxford Reference, April 2, 2018 (Barbecue Bob; born Robert Hicks, September 11, 1902, Walton County, Georgia; died October 21, 1931, Lithonia, Georgia; moved to Atlanta in 1924, where he worked at a barbecue, which gave him his pseudonym; made his first records in 1927, beginning a successful recording career that lasted just four years but produced over 50 tracks of fine blues; in 1930, he recorded as part of the Georgia Cotton Pickers, with Curley Weaver and Buddy Moss, and he also appeared as accompanist on Nellie Florence's single 1929 session; one of the principal figures on the Atlanta blues scene of the time)
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