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Barbecue Bob

from Telegram by Mick Clarke

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Here's a song about young Bob Hicks, who worked at a gas station / barbecue joint in Georgia in the 1920s. He'd sell you a can of gas for your Model T and cook you a burger. He'd also give you a tune on his 12 string guitar, and that was how he got discovered and became Barbecue Bob.

Bob had some success with his records but died tragically young at 29. Eric Clapton recorded his song "Motherless Child" and I have to say I think it's one of Eric's best. And I always liked the way he talked about it when interviewed on TV - "oh it's a Barbecue Bob song".. like, you know Barbecue Bob don't you? Of course you do.

I have to admit I didn't know much about the man at the time, but have since read up his history and listened a lot to his music. And I was literally thinking.. I wonder what his burgers were like? So here's a song about Bob with something approximating his style of rhythm guitar on the 12 string, and some lead guitar picked out on my 1930s Harmony archtop.. nearly old enough to be contemporaneous with Bob's short life

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from Telegram, released August 22, 2022

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Mick Clarke England, UK

Rockfold Records - Mick Clarke, Killing Floor, SALT. International distribution through BGO Records
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