Bob Campbell

Apparently There Is More Than One Artist That Goes By The Name Bob Campbell. Two Are Mentioned Below. I. A Topical Singer-Songwriter Since The 80's Bob Sang Of His Life As A Compassionate Family Man And A Thoughtful Committed Citizen With A Great Depth Of Emotion And Humility. Since His High School Years Growing Up In The Tumultuous 60's Bob Focused On Music As A Way To Express His Thoughts And Feelings About Life And The Larger Socio-Political Scene That Has Over The Past Forty Years Shaped All Of Our Lives In Ways We Could Never Have Imagined. Much Like Investigative Journalism Set To Music Bob's Stirring Poetry Speaks Of Political Injustice And His Deep Concern For All Humanity And Challenges Us With A Compelling Call To Action. Though He Has Recently Passed On His Timeless Message Remains Alive. CDBaby Bob Campbell II. In 1933 He Was Recorded At New York City For The American Record Company And He Had Apparently Traveled To The Session With Lucille "Bessie Jackson" Bogan And Guitarist Sonny Scott. Scott's Recording Of HIGHWAY NO. 2 BLUES May Refer To Highway 2 Which Passes To The North Of Both Mantua And Ralph. Some Attempt Was Made By The American Record Company To Pass Walter's Guitar-Accompanied Work Off As By Another Artist ALABAMA SAM And His Duets With Scott Were Issued As By The JOLLY TWO Or With Vocal Asides By Lucille Bogan As By The JOLLY JIVERS. A Duet With Lucille Bogan Was Credited BESSIE JACKSON AND WALTER SCOTT Perhaps Simply A Clerical Confusion Between Roland And Sonny Scott. His Best-Selling Recording Was EARLY THIS MORNING A Reworking Of An Earlier Paramount Recording By Charlie Spand SOON THIS MORNING But Walter Was Successful Enough To Continue Recording Until 1935. Bob Campbell Was Also Present At The 1934 Sessions And Both Walter And Bob Recorded Versions Of DICE'S BLUES Which Was Revived Postwar By Big Chief Ellis And Others. The Two-Guitar Accompaniment For Lucille Bogan's I HATE THAT TRAIN CALLED THE M & O Is By Bob Campbell And Josh White. At His Later Sessions Walter Was Teamed With Guitarist Josh White In An Apparent Attempt To Repeat The Success Of Leroy Carr And Scrapper Blackwell But The Arrangement May Have Failed After Josh Was Incapacitated In The Late 1930's And Walter Failed To Make Further Recordings. At Some Later Time Possibly As Late As 1950 Walter Became A Farmer. In Later Years He Was Known By The Nicknames "Old Soul" And Because Of His Unexpurgated Lyrics To The Song Of That Title "Shave 'Em Dry". Roland Was Reputedly Playing Guitar As A Street Singer In The 1960's. As Well As Birmingham He Worked Around Dolomite And The Interurban Heights Around Brighton And Elsewhere. In About The Late 1960's Walter Was Trying To Be A Peacemaker In A Domestic Argument Between A Neighboring Husband And Wife And One Of The Disputing Parties Fired A Shotgun With The Result That Walter Was Blinded By Buckshot. His Children Learned Of The Incident Only After About Two Weeks When He Was Still In Hospital Possibly At Hueytown. Roland Left His Guitar Behind When He Was Hospitalized And It Was Never Retrieved. By 1968 Walter Had Retired From Music Because Of His Blindness And Was Cared For By His Daughters At Fairfield Near Miles College. In 1968 He Applied For An Old Age Pension. He Lived At 5130 Avenue G Fairfield Alabama 35064 In His Last Years And Had Been Widowed By The Time He Died There Of Bronchogenic . read less