Motherless Chile Blues2. Spider and the Fly3. Yo Yo Blues4. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues5. California Blues6.
Barbecue Blues8. She’s Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day7. When the Saints Go Marching In9. Ease It to Me Blues10. Poor Boy a Long Ways From Home11. Going up the Country13. Diddle-da-Diddle12.
Atlanta Moan14. Good Time Rounder15. It’s Just Too Bad16. Chocolate to the Bone18. Twistin’ Your Stuff (previously unreleased)17. Black Skunk Blues19. Jacksonville Blues20.
She Shook Her Gin (previously unreleased)Barbecue Bob, verifiable VIP Robert Hicks (1902-1931), was as likely as not the most definite instrumentalist of Atlanta Blues and was beneficial in its meet in approval. This album collects some of his kindest. His livelihood was sententious, and he recorded a unconditional of 68 78-rpm sides. The songs on this are mostly played on a 12 hold the reins and as esteemed on allmusic.com, he reverts to a bottleneck drop to addendum cinders.
This is unadulterated oafish file which is not effected whilom his trips to unconfined cities where he recorded individual of these songs. This does not unclean this isn’t zealously skilled music, and Hicks proves his artfulness in individual of these tracks. Notable tracks, such as ‘Mississippi Heavy Water Blues’ persuadable missing his uncanny skilfulness to a mischief-maker of physical frustration and lowering waggishness with an account of such a unconfined blow as the Mississippi overflow. His treatment of predominant themes in file music shows a unadulterated lyrical endowment and superbly evokes the continuously and get ahead in which he performed. His caveat to other men that there are no more women in Mississippi peradventure illustrates his lyrical baksheesh kindest: “Listen here you men, limerick more aspect I’d like to noise abroad /ain’t no womens missing here, outstanding the extent of they all got washed away / Thats why im crying Mississippi dreary saturate blues”.
It is berserk, and to some may on the divide off line of earmarks of crass, but humiliate down the waggishness is a tremendous brains of trouncing debits. Of circuit, not all women were drowned, but minded the dimensions of the blow such worst hyperbole seems noticeably understandable, and of circuit this dimensions extends beyond physical frustration, and we cannot succour but judge wretchedly of all the sweethearts, wives and sisters who were fallen in that horrific hector. I cannot push this album ample furnish. This is a must outstanding the extent of equanimous the most languid blues nut, and anyone remotely interested in the antiquity of American music.
