Time: 63:04
Size: 144.4 MB
Styles: Texas blues
Year: 1993
Art: Front
[3:50] 1. Baby Don't Work
[5:07] 2. Tell Me The Reason Why
[6:24] 3. Part Time Love
[3:49] 4. I Want Your Love
[3:48] 5. Mambo Jambo
[3:43] 6. Love My Baby
[2:07] 7. Everyday I Have The Blues
[3:07] 8. Outskirts Of Town
[2:49] 9. Mardi Gras
[2:35] 10. Bartender
[3:23] 11. Night Time Is The Right Time
[3:20] 12. Wine Spodee-O-Dee
[3:55] 13. Mojo Backfired
[3:10] 14. The Hustler
[4:17] 15. Blue Monday
[3:52] 16. Chitlin Circuit
[3:41] 17. Butterbeans
Lead vocals on Tracks 1-6: Robert Ealey, Tracks 7-12, 17 : Curley 'Barefoot' Miller; Tracks 13-16: Joe Jonas. Special Guests: Johnny Reno, Mike Morgan, Jim Suhler, Sumter Bruton, Hash Brown.
Some of the new blues bands have it easy, playing college bars and fake juke joints. Texas bluesmen came up in a tougher school.
Robert Ealey was bom in Texarkana. He sang there, mostly in church. A move to Dallas put him in touch with hardball blues by Li'l Son Jackson and Frankie Lee Sims, and a local song and dance legend Finny Mo (Leslie Finney II). He relocated to Fort Worth and played drums with Lightnin' Hopkins and later with U.P. Wilson, but it was his bullmoose voice that got him his regional renown. A passionate and often witty performer, Ealey comes armed with a passel of cover songs and a few million of his own, the lalter wry and observant. He's heard here with some serious guitarists!
Born in New Orleans, Curley 'Barefoot' Miller started out as a circus performer, and then strode right into American folklore as a hoofer on the medicine show circuit. He'd dazzle the marks with song and dance and then step aside as the quacks sold a "cure-all" that in reality cured nothing but sobriety. He had a stint touting Hadacol (the same elixir B.B.King peddled in the '50's). When he finally settled in Dallas, he met every hustler, hipster, and R&B musician in town. Some years ago he started doing guest shots with Cold Blue Steel. They'd beat hell out of a place with their Texasfied blend of rock, blues and R&B, and then bring up "Baretoot", who'd conquer all with salty stories and blues singing tinged with the phrasings of jazz. At 91, Curly, Dallas' Oldest Teenager, lives on, a senior member of the great Southwestern showbusiness community.
Joe Jonas is a big man with a big voice, who blows a mean harmonica to boot. Born in Beaumont, Texas, he was just a kid when he first took to the road with Zydeco legend Clifton Chenier, who bilied him as "Little Jimmy Reed Junior". In 1955 he moved to Dallas and played such venues as the Green Parrot, the Ascot, and the Zanzibar. In '69 he went to California, where he had a stint at Tiki Jack's near Berkeley University. Knee and back surgery sidelined him a while, but after some shape-up gigs at the Sho-Nuff Barbecue back home in Dallas, he was ready again for the frontlines. These days he's one busy bluesman, who slayed 'ern three days running at the Eureka Springs bluesfest in Arkansas in '93. He's heard here with some major caliber players including guitarist "Mighty" Paul Young, who first came to the fore in The Cricket Taylor Band. Joe is a forceful addition to the distinguished roster of talented Lone Star bluesmasters.
Some of the new blues bands have it easy, playing college bars and fake juke joints. Texas bluesmen came up in a tougher school.
Robert Ealey was bom in Texarkana. He sang there, mostly in church. A move to Dallas put him in touch with hardball blues by Li'l Son Jackson and Frankie Lee Sims, and a local song and dance legend Finny Mo (Leslie Finney II). He relocated to Fort Worth and played drums with Lightnin' Hopkins and later with U.P. Wilson, but it was his bullmoose voice that got him his regional renown. A passionate and often witty performer, Ealey comes armed with a passel of cover songs and a few million of his own, the lalter wry and observant. He's heard here with some serious guitarists!
Born in New Orleans, Curley 'Barefoot' Miller started out as a circus performer, and then strode right into American folklore as a hoofer on the medicine show circuit. He'd dazzle the marks with song and dance and then step aside as the quacks sold a "cure-all" that in reality cured nothing but sobriety. He had a stint touting Hadacol (the same elixir B.B.King peddled in the '50's). When he finally settled in Dallas, he met every hustler, hipster, and R&B musician in town. Some years ago he started doing guest shots with Cold Blue Steel. They'd beat hell out of a place with their Texasfied blend of rock, blues and R&B, and then bring up "Baretoot", who'd conquer all with salty stories and blues singing tinged with the phrasings of jazz. At 91, Curly, Dallas' Oldest Teenager, lives on, a senior member of the great Southwestern showbusiness community.
Joe Jonas is a big man with a big voice, who blows a mean harmonica to boot. Born in Beaumont, Texas, he was just a kid when he first took to the road with Zydeco legend Clifton Chenier, who bilied him as "Little Jimmy Reed Junior". In 1955 he moved to Dallas and played such venues as the Green Parrot, the Ascot, and the Zanzibar. In '69 he went to California, where he had a stint at Tiki Jack's near Berkeley University. Knee and back surgery sidelined him a while, but after some shape-up gigs at the Sho-Nuff Barbecue back home in Dallas, he was ready again for the frontlines. These days he's one busy bluesman, who slayed 'ern three days running at the Eureka Springs bluesfest in Arkansas in '93. He's heard here with some major caliber players including guitarist "Mighty" Paul Young, who first came to the fore in The Cricket Taylor Band. Joe is a forceful addition to the distinguished roster of talented Lone Star bluesmasters.
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