Son of a sharecropper and member of a family of twelve children, singer, harmonica and guitar player Bobby Mercer Oliver grew up picking cotton and farming On hot summer nights, after long days of work, Bobbie enjoyed listening to Claude Oliver’s playing In those years at small towns and among black people, there were few other ways to enjoy themselves That happened during the 40’s, so it was difficult for Afroamerican people to go to the cinema or have a TV set at home Many things have happened since that time, and now Bobby Mercer Oliver has become a true bluesman, especially since his last wife encouraged him to come back to the blues scene In this last cd you will find daily wild downhome blues performed on a cool spontaneous way and the honest disposition only those musicians who know blues is running in their veins since their childhood have Do not ask for technical careful playing or other effective resources in Bobby’s music, because this is neither his goal nor the way he feels the blues