| Genres: |
Blues
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| Descriptive "tags": |
blues • rhythm and blues • blues shouter • under 2000 listeners
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| Decades Active: |
1990s
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Biography
Robert Percell Ferguson, 9 May 1929, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, d. 26 November 2006, Blue Ash, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. In the fall-out that succeeded the acquisition of his stage name, Ferguson obliterated all knowledge of his past, beyond the fact that his father was a minister who disapproved of his son playing blues and boogie-woogie on the church piano. In later years, his identity was further masked by a bewildering array of gaudy wigs. Ferguson first took the stage at the age of 16, having persuaded Cat Anderson to let him sing with his band. A year later, Anderson hired him. He first recorded as Bob Ferguson with Jack Parker’s Orchestra for Derby in 1950. Around this time, manager Chet Patterson suggested he call himself The Cobra Kid, but his 1951 records for Atlas billed him as H-Bomb, as celebrated in ‘Rock H-Bomb Rock’. After a single for Prestige Records, he signed to Savoy Records and singles such as...
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