A sharecropper's son and one of twelve children. He grew up picking cotton and farming.  On hot summer nights, after a long day's work, Claude Oliver, with his guitar tuned to the "key of E," played to express his own soul and to entertain his family.  In Atlanta, Texas, 1939, that's what people did to raise their spirits and to pass the time.

Bobbie Mercy Oliver is a Blues Master.  A composer and player of multiple instruments (all by ear), he is the last of the old school harmonica players.  He is a one man band, playing guitar, harmonica and singing all at the same time.  To watch him do all of this during a performance leaves his fans in awe.

But, it's just not right to play the music and not know the history behind it.  Bobbie knows everything about the Blues and the masters that came before him.  "You have to know where we've been in order to know where to go."  Bobbie owns BEO Records.

Contact the artist:  BobbieMercy@RawIndieRadio.com