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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)