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Eric Bibb & Bert Deivert
3+ albums
folkblues
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Eric Bibb Profile By Reverend Keith A. Gordon, About.com Guide Born: August 16, 1951 in New York NY Acoustic bluesman Eric Bibb may be better known in Europe than he is to the typical U.S. blues fan, but the talented guitarist and songwriter has quietly forged a career of musical excellence and artistic dignity the equal of any contemporary bluesman. Infatuated with acoustic-oriented pre-war blues, Bibb has retrofitted the string-driven Delta blues tradition for a new century, and through the years his music has largely moved away from his early reliance on traditional blues and folk tunes towards his own imaginative and intelligent original material. Performing in a vein similar to artists like Otis Taylor, Corey Harris, and Keb' Mo', Bibb's career is still enjoying an upward trajectory in the 2000s. Childhood Full Of Music Growing up in a household filled with music it was, perhaps, pre-destined that Eric Bibb would find a career in music himself. Bibb's father is folk artist Leon Bibb, his uncle noted composer John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet. During his childhood, Bibb was exposed to the music of family friends like Odetta, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, so it comes as no surprise that he began playing guitar at the age of seven, when he received his first acoustic guitar. As a young teen, Bibb studied at the New York City's High School of Music and Art, learning double bass, classical guitar, and piano. At the age of 16, he played guitar in the house band on his
