1	Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home (3:01)
2	Barbecue Blues (3:09)
3	Honey Your Going Too Fast (2:59)
4	Motherless Chile Blues (3:12)
5	She Looks So Good (2:58)
6	Thinkin' Funny Blues (3:22)
7	Honey You Don't Know My Mind (3:08)
8	Going Up The Country (3:11)
9	Atlanta Moan (3:03)
10	It Just Won't Hay (3:05)
11	Chocolate To The Bone (2:49)
12	When The Saints Go Marching In (3:07)
13	She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day (3:01)
14	Spider And The Fly (3:33)
15	It Just Won't Quit (3:13)
16	Yo Yo Blues (2:54)
17	Brown-Skin Gal (3:03)
18	Jesus' Blood Can Make Me Whole (3:03)
19	She Moves It Just Right (2:55)
20	Midnight Weeping Blues (Nellie Florence vocals) (2:55)
21	It Won't Be Long Now - Part 1 (3:29)
22	It's Just Too Bad (3:12)
23	Doin' The Scraunch (2:54)
24	How Long Pretty Mama (3:21)

Barbecue Bob - guitar, vocals
Neillie Florence - gutar, vocals (track 20)

In the late '20s, Georgia native Robert Hicks, better known by his stage name Barbecue Bob, enjoyed a brief but prolific run as a prominent player in the emerging Atlanta blues scene. Beginning in 1927, he went on to record a total of 68 sides for Columbia's race label and became one of the best-selling blues artists of the era. Alternating between 12- and six-string guitar and frequently employing a bottleneck technique, several of his songs, like "It Won't Be Long Now, Pt. 1" and its "Pt. 2" B-side (which he recorded with his brother Charlie), have come to be recognized as signature recordings of the early Atlanta sound. The former of the two is included in this well-curated 24-track anthology from the Rough Guide series, along with his versions of early blues standards like "Poor Boy a Long Ways from Home" and "Motherless Chile Blues." Although he died in 1931 at the age of 29, Barbecue Bob's witty, original style is considered to have been highly influential in blues development in Atlanta and beyond. ---Timothy Monger, AllMusic Review

Barbecue Bob was one of the best-selling and most innovative blues artists of the late 1920s before he died at the age of just 29. Undoubtedly some of the most engaging early blues that you are likely to hear, his original and witty compositions had a huge influence on many of the blues greats that followed.

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1   Thinking with the Wrong Head   4:43  
2   Louise   5:20  
3   One More Mile   5:30  
4   It's the One   4:05  
5   Stop Breakin' My Heart   3:35		play  
6   Misery (Loves Company)   4:16  
7   Skyliner   3:07		play  
8   Wooden Nickel   3:04  
9   The Girl That Radiates That Charm   5:54  
10   Uncle Walter   4:51  
11   The World's on Fire   7:15  
12   Sparerib Rock   4:26

Personnel:
Robert Pomeroy / Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Ira Spinrad / Guitar
Dominick Zarillo / Bass
Scott Byrne / Drums
BBQ Bob / Guitar, Vocals

Everything about BBQ Bob & the Spareribs smacks of the deep South, from the finger-lickin' name to the overdriven, harmonica-riding, bluesy shuffles. Surprise: This two-decade-old band hails from the swamps of Manhattan. We won't hold that against the band, though, because its music is a solid bar-band mix of Southern rock and rockabilly that fans of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Georgia Satellites and our own Nighthawks will eat up. ---Fritz Hahn, Washington Post

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1. Motherless Child Blues
2. Spider And The Fly
3. Yo Yo Blues
4. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues
5. California Blues
6. She's Coming
7. Barbecue Blues						play
8. When The Saints Go Marching In
9. Ease It To Me Blues
10. Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home
11. Diddle-Da-Diddle
12. Going Up The Country
13. Atlanta Moan
14. Good Time Rounder					play
15. It's Just Too Bad
16. Twistin' Your Stuff
17. Chocolate To The Bone
18. Black Skunk Blues
19. Jacksonville Blues
20. She Shook Her Gin

Personnel: 
Barbecue Bob (guitar); 
Curley Weaver (guitar); 
Buddy Moss (harmonica).

Although Robert "Barbecue Bob" Hicks recorded over 65 extant sides (three are not known to have survived) in a three-year stretch starting in 1927 up to his death in 1931, the 20 collected here make a perfect introduction to the work of this Atlanta-based artist. He may have played a big-city acoustic 12-string guitar, but Hicks' playing was provincial, down-home, and often modal, reducing any chord progression down to one or two chords. He also played embellishments on this instrument with a bottleneck, a rarity then and a rarity now. Usually tuned to an open chord, Barbecue Bob's playing nonetheless shows great diversity and musical flexibility. The 20 sides collected here (all off of old, scratchy 78s and cleaned up as well as can be expected) give a nice cross-section of that diversity as a solo artist, along with a pair of sides showcasing Bob in a small band context with Buddy Moss on harmonica and Curley Weaver on second guitar and another with Hicks backing up former gal pal Nellie Florence on a raucous "Jacksonville Blues." Of special merit for collectors are the inclusion of two previously unissued sides struck from slightly better sounding test pressings, "Twistin' Your Stuff" and "She Shook Her Gin." This expanded collection replaces the 14-track vinyl collection of the same name. --- Cub Koda, AMG

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01 She Moves It Just Right
02 Tellin' It to You
03 Yo Yo Blues No. 2
04 She Shook Her Gin [#]
05 We Sure Got Hard Times
06 Twistin' That Stuff [#]
07 Monkey and the Baboon						play
08 Spider and the Fly
09 Darktown Gambling, Pt. 1- The Crap Game
10 Darktown Gambling, Pt. 2- The Skin Game
11 Jambooger Blues
12 It Just Won't Quit
13 Atlanta Moan
14 New Mojo Blues
15 Doin' the Scraunch							play
16 I'm on My Way Down Home
17 Diddle-Da-Diddle
18 She Looks So Good
19 She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day

Robert Hicks, better known as Barbecue Bob (September 11, 1902 – October 21, 1931) was an early American Piedmont blues musician. His nickname came from the fact that he was a cook in a barbecue restaurant. One of the two extant photographs of Bob show him playing his guitar while wearing a full length white apron and cook's hat.

Bob developed a "flailing" or "frailing" style of playing guitar more often associated with the traditional clawhammer banjo (as did his brother, and, initially, Curley Weaver). He used a bottleneck regularly on his 12-string guitar, playing in an elemental style that relied on an open Spanish tuning reminiscent of Charley Patton. He had a strong voice that he embellished with growling and falsetto, and a percussive singing style.

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01. Get It While the Gettin' Is Good  3.18 		play
02. Turn Your Lamp Down Low  4.57
03. A Bullet For You  6.03
04. Too Bored to Live, Too Dumb to Die  3.18
05. My Home Is a Prison  4.39
06. High Cotton  3.26
07. Hot Biscuit  2.53
08. Gorillacillin  3.26
09. Meet Me After Midnight  4.42			play
10. One Step Closer  2.51
11. Ass, Gas, or Grass  3.06
12. My Baby's Sweeter  7.02
13. The Backslider  4.16

Barbecue Bob And The Spareribs: 
Robert Pomeroy (vocals, guitar, harmonica); 
Ira Spinrad (guitar, slide guitar, background vocals); 
Dominick Zarrillo (bass); 
Dave Ross (drums, background vocals).

Additional personnel: 
Neil "Tex" Thomas (accordion, piano, washboard); 
Bruce Martin (Hammond B-3 organ); 
Charles Otis (percussion).

Let's face it: Most blues music reeks of honky revival. You know the stuff. Amiable white guys who memorize the collected licks of Robert Johnson or more likely Stevie Ray Vaughn or even more likely George Thorogood, wreak havoc on the same three chords over and over. Pretty soon the refried hockey blues of Canned Heat is sounding pretty good.

Not so with this outfit. A roster of NYC-NJ blues veterans who have the chops to back up their considerable record collections, BBQ Bob & the Spareribs play it as hard and mean as those excellent Excello sides recently anthologized (and worth your time) by Hip-O / Universal. In fact, on their second CD, Pass the Biscuits, they cover Lonesome Sundown's (Cornelius Green) "My Home is a Prison" (written by J.D. Miller, who also wrote Kitty Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"), which appeared on The Excello Story Volume Two. Here, singer Bob Pomeroy's harp traces guitarist Ira Spinrad's lead lines in glorious stereo. Those two do a lot of chasing each other. In place of a twin guitar attack, Spinrad and Pomeroy trade licks between distorted harp and guitar. True telepathy at times.

There's plenty to chew on here. "A Bullet for You" is a muted rumble that recalls the high-wire tension of the Rolling Stones' "Midnight Rambler". "One Step Closer" has the R&B sweetness of Arthur Alexander. Legendary Chicago harpist Little Walter gets a nod of the hat with a cover of "My Baby's Sweeter." "High Cotton" is that merge of raw bottomed blues and country music that some people think the Band accomplished with their first few records. That only shows how laid back hippies can be.

This ain't a nostalgia show. There are eleven originals here that in a blindfold test you wouldn't be able to correctly date. Coulda been written fifty years ago, coulda been yesterday. The rhythm section is a mother and you can hear it steamroll through "Too Bored to Live, Too Dumb to Die," "Hot Biscuit" or "Gorillacillin" if you feel the need to impulsively shake your ass.

The entire CD was recorded live on Tuesday, June 13, 1999 at Coyote Studios in Brooklyn and the result is the actual energy of live show. Unlike, say, the Rolling Stones, who stripped it down for their acoustic outing, only to employ back-up singers, keyboardists and other sweeteners, these guys are the raw deal. When they grab Bruce Martin for a little Hammond B-3, Charles Otis for percussion or Neil Tex Thomas for piano, accordion or washboard, it's to fill out the sound, not to pad it. There's a difference. Only goes to show you how screwed up the music business is these days that guys playing their instruments live in a room could be considered such a novel idea. ---Rob O’Connor

It's rare that you are able to truly imagine what a blues group would sound like live based on a studio-recorded CD. That's not the case with "Pass the Biscuits" from Barbecue Bob and the Spareribs. One listen to this and you'll want to hear these guys in a dark blues club late at night.

This CD has a raw, authentic edge to it because these New York City/New Jersey blues veterans recorded the all 13 tracks in one day. The mix is great, simply because this recording was not overproduced - it's straight blues all around. The challenge is to peg the style of this group. You can hear the Delta blues influences on the edgy "A Bullet for You," the 50's rock influence on "Gorillacillin" and just about every other avenue of blues scattered throughout this recording.

The music is great because of the individual strengths of the musicians. Bob Pomeroy's vocals have a laid back, ultra cool feel. His harp work is smooth and soulful. The guitar work, especially the slide guitar on "Hot Biscuit" (a Pomeroy original) cuts through effortlessly, making this one of the best tracks on the disk. The rhythm section is tight and has a way of sitting just behind the beat, making you hang on for each downbeat. ---Joe Thornton

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