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Eric Bibb
The son of a Broadway singer and nephew of a jazz composer, Eric Bibb grew up in
New York's vibrant 1960s folk scene with Paul Robeson as his godfather and Pete
Seeger and Odetta as family friends. Taking up guitar as a seven-year-old, he
started playing professionally at 16 in his father's house band, before moving
to Europe and developing a love of world music. His breakthrough album Good
Stuff (1997) defined Bibb as a soulful bluesman and talented acoustic guitarist,
while later records Home To Me (1999), Just Like Love (2001) and Natural Light
(2003) were the works of a wande...
