Robert Thomas, born in 1920, in Society Hill, Alabama, played a type of music he called “boogie and blues,” which he learned from his best friend Albert Macon. For forty years the two played music together at fish fries, parties, and festivals in the greater Auburn and Tuskegee, Alabama, and Columbus, Georgia, areas. They also received national and international attention, playing at the Knoxville World’s Fair and the American Blues Festival in the Netherlands and the WDR Blues Festival in Bonn, Germany. Macon and Thomas recorded Blues and Boogie from Alabama, and album on the Dutch Swingmaster label, and are also featured on the recording In the Celebration of a Legacy: Traditional Music of the Chattahoochee River Valley, produced by the Columbus Museum of Art. They performed old-time, country blues tunes, such as “John Henry” and “Staggerlee,” in a rousing style intended for dancing until Albert Macon’s death in the nineties.