Eric Bibb was raised in the folk tradition, the son of the folk singer Leon Bibb. Bibb’s uncle was the world-famous jazz pianist and composer, John Lewis, part of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Bibb was raised in a music-filledhousehold, as family friends in the 1950s and 1960s included Pete Seeger, Odetta, Bob Dylan, and the late Paul Robeson, who was named Eric’s godfather. Bibb got his first steel guitar at age seven, and he got some advice fromDylan that he never forgot, to “keep it simple, forget...