ABC of the Blues CD2 (2010)

CD2 - Richard Berry & Barbecue Bob

01 Richard Berry – Louie, Louie		play
02 Richard Berry – Sweet Sugar You
03 Richard Berry – You Look So Good
04 Richard Berry – Mess Around
05 Richard Berry – No Room
06 Richard Berry – I Want You to Be My Girl
07 Richard Berry – I’m Your Fool
08 Richard Berry – Walk Right In
09 Richard Berry – Give It Up
10 Richard Berry – Have Love, Will Travel
11 Barbecue Bob – Yo Yo Blues
12 Barbecue Bob – California Blues
13 Barbecue Bob – Motherless Chiles Blues
14 Barbecue Bob – She’s Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day
15 Barbecue Bob – Barbecue Blues
16 Barbecue Bob – Ease It to Me Blues
17 Barbecue Bob – Chocolate to the Bone		play
18 Barbecue Bob – Good Time Rounder
19 Barbecue Bob – Atlanta Moan
20 Barbecue Bob – Diddle-Da-Diddle

Richard Berry (April 11, 1935 – January 23, 1997) was an African American singer, songwriter and musician, who performed with many Los Angeles doo-wop and close harmony groups in the 1950s, including The Flairs and The Robins. He is best known as the composer and original performer of the rock standard "Louie Louie". The song went on to be a hit for The Kingsmen becoming one of the most recorded songs of all time, however Berry received lttle financial benefit for writing it until the 1980s, having signed away his rights to the song in 1959.

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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