Bob Robinson

There is some mystery as to who Bob Robinson actually was. His name appears connected to a series of sides issued by a loose group of Chicago musicians under the monikers the Hokum Boys and the Down Home Boys (depending on what label) in the early to mid-'30s. Most of these sides were issued by Paramount Records, and a Bob Robinson was listed as a singer, guitarist, clarinetist, and banjo player on some of these cuts. These were hokum blues releases (hokum was then in its heyday) generally centered around Jimmy Blythe on piano, and the actual identity of the multi-instrumental...