Robert Ealey & His Five Careless Lovers - Live At The New Blue Bird Nite Club

Size: 97.3 MB
Time: 42:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1973/2021
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Front

01. Further On Up The Road (Live) (3:21)
02. Got My Mojo Workin' (Live) (3:40)
03. Black Night (Live) (3:58)
04. Turn On Your Lovelight (Live) (5:36)
05. Robert's Little Johnny (Live) (5:14)
06. Dust My Broom (Live) (3:51)
07. Sweet Sixteen (Live) (6:47)
08. Boogie Children (Live) (9:30)

In 1972, a young T-Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton produced a live album at The New Blue Bird Nite Club in Fort Worth, TX, featuring Robert Ealey and His Five Careless Lovers. Five hundred vinyl records were independently released on Blue Royal Records in 1973. The masters were put into storage at Record Town, the oldest record store in Fort Worth, and forgotten for almost five decades. Record Town is excited to present the reissue of this essential Texas Blues classic as the first release on the new Record Town Records. Born in Texarkana in 1925, Robert Ealey moved to Dallas after serving in WWII. Those lucky enough to live in Fort Worth during the 70's may recall the nondescript blue building on Horne Street that hosted a who's who of blues and jazz artists every Friday and Saturday night. The New Blue Bird Nite Club was the center of Fort Worth Blues for over thirty years. This album let's you jump n' jive with Robert Ealey as if you were there on that hot Texas night. It features a young Mike Buck on drums, with Sumter Bruton and Freddie Cisneros on guitar, and Jackie Newhouse on bass. Fort Worth, Texas has a remarkable musical heritage. From the birth of Western Swing, the child of Milton Brown, Bob Wills and the Light Crust Doughboys, music has been in it's bones. Record Town has been an important part of that history for over 60 years by informing and influencing generations of young Texans while honoring the incredible creativity of the music community in Funkytown. Record Town Records goal is that future generations get a chance to shake some action and jump some jive.

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Robert Ealey - I Like Music When I Party

Size: 116,5 MB
Time: 50:26
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1997
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Shake Your Butt (4:38)
2. See About Me (3:15)
3. Don't I Love You (4:51)
4. Is Your Bathroom Clean (5:02)
5. Too Many Ways (3:35)
6. Cristena (4:52)
7. Elloise (3:56)
8. Shoo-Bee-Doo (3:45)
9. Graveyard Blues (3:12)
10. When The Lights Go Out (Let's Push It) (5:44)
11. Picture On The Wall (3:39)
12. Wild Wild West (3:53)

Robert Ealey is no spring chicken. After singing in local Texas bands for years, he finally started recording in the '90s - I Like Music When I Party was the fourth album he cut after starting his recording career. Like the others, it's a greasy colleciton of Texas blues, spiked with a bit of soul. Ealey's voice may be gravelly with age, but it's by no means gone, and with the support of his youthful backing band, he can really bring it home. There's nothing deep here - just party music, played good and simple. Sometimes, that's enough. /Thom Owens, AllMusic

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Robert Ealey With The Juke Jumpers - Bluebird Open

Year: 1981
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:11
Size: 88,2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: LP front, back, labels

1. You Are So Wonderful (2:59)
2. Tramp (5:11)
3. Part Time Love (6:17)
4. She's A Rocket (All Night) (3:57)
5. Workin' With Robert (3:58)
6. Something's Goin' Wrong (3:38)
7. Cut 'Em Loose (3:34)
8. I Told You I Love You (4:07)
9. All My Life (4:30)

Thirty years of singing, drumming and hustling the blues across Texas have led Robert Ealy to the New Bluebird Club at Horne ans Wllesly, in Forth Worth's Como district. After a career teaming up with guitarist U.P. Wilson as the Boogie Chillun, backing Lightnin' Hopkins on drums, and leading the bluesman's usual rambling, changing life, Robert has found a steady gig. He manages, leases, and entertains at the nondescript old blue-painted building with all the non-trappings of a neighborhood bar. Since he first worked out on the small bandstand by the screen door, he's built the historic club, the music, and himself into local institutions.

This album delivers a taste of a hot night, combining the immediacy of Robert's 1975 live LP from the club with the technical advantages of the studio. A fifties R&B shuffle with hints of Hank Ballard and Ted Taylor bumps into nasty, proud funk, then it's down to the ground for Little Johnny Taylor's blues classic with T-Bone Walker guitar fills and plenty of reverb. Robert tosses in his unique trademark vocal effects near the end of the boogie he and guitarist Sumter Bruton worked out, "She's A Rocket (All Night)". After Robert boogaloos through a cold sweat, he and guitarist Jim Colegrove storm up some Lightnin' on "Something's Goin' Wrong".

"Cut 'Em Loose" lays down some advice over a Latin groove. A stew of inspirations including Jimmy Reed, James Brown, and New Orleans cooks as a ballad, then the swaggering shuffle "All My Life" brings things to an end. The New Bluebird, Robert Ealey, and the Juke Jumpers serve up a lot of old thruths. Be sure to drop by if you're in the area, but if you can't recharge your ears after digging this album, the record shows why it's so good to so many different kinds of customers: the joys and moods behind it all are universal. /Excerpt from the liner notes by Dick Shurman, Living Blues Magazine

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Robert Ealey, Curly 'Barefoot' Miller, Joe Jonas - Texas Bluesmen

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
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.

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VA - Topcat Records: 20th Anniversary Blues Extravaganza!

Size: 200,2+185,6 MB
Time: 85:03+78:39
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front & Back

CD 1:
01 Jesse Thomas - Blue Goose Blues (6:33)
02 Johnny Nicholas - Kind Hearted Woman (4:19)
03 Edwin Holt - Down To The Bone (4:19)
04 Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call (Feat. Pinetop Perkins, Calvin Jones & Willie Big Eyes Smith) (6:33)
05 George Harmonica Smith - Mississippi River Blues (3:36)
06 Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog (3:06)
07 Big Walter Horton - My Babe (Feat. Ronnie Youngblood Earl & Johnny Nicholas) (3:54)
08 Jimmie Vaughan - Texas Flood (5:19)
09 Curly Barefoot Miller - The Curly Stomp (4:36)
10 Bobby Chitwood - C-Jam Blues (3:55)
11 The Texas Topcats - Jump My Baby (2:30)
12 The Tu-Tones - Pawnshop Bound (3:54)
13 Josh Alan - Rollin' And Tumblin' (2:55)
14 Hollywood Fats & The Paladins - Tear It Up (3:55)
15 Cricket Taylor - Guitar Man (6:44)
16 Alex Rossi & Phil Guy - Rock Me (4:40)
17 Robert Ealey - I'm Coming Home (4:14)
18 Curly Barefoot Miller - Butter Beans (3:39)
19 Johnny Nicholas - John The Revelator (3:40)
20 Hash Brown - Boogie (2:33)

CD 2:
01 Calvin Owens - True Blue (Feat. B.B. King) (4:21)
02 Bugs Henderson - She Feels Good (4:45)
03 Solon Fishbone - What's On Your Mind (3:54)
04 Texas Slim - Welcome To The Game (2:55)
05 Holland K. Smith - Walking Heart Attack (4:04)
06 Rocky Athas - Texas Girl (3:32)
07 Fernando Noronha - White Trash (5:29)
08 T. Buck Burns & Slip Clay - Saint Peter Have Mercy (3:51)
09 Keller Thomas - Leopard Skin Mini Skirt (3:04)
10 Bob Kirkpatrick - Remember (5:27)
11 Cold Blue Steel - The Girl That Radiates (2:47)
12 Kenny Traylor - Sneakin’ Around (3:53)
13 Jim Suhler & Alan Haynes - Oh My Baby’s Gone (3:43)
14 Big Gilson - Tribute To Roy Buchanan (3:27)
15 Robin Sylar - Heart Of Stone (3:38)
16 Mike Morgan - Well All Right Then (3:36)
17 Pat Mason - Queen Of The Boucherie (4:39)
18 Johnny Mack - Sugar Bee (3:15)
19 U.P. Wilson - Cross Road (3:38)
20 Tutu Jones - The Thrill Is Gone (4:32)

A double-disc set celebrating the two-decade anniversary of Topcat Records, this 40-track compilation shines a spotlight on the various releases the Texas-based blues label have released over the years. This set mixes up old, archival tracks reissued by the label along with newly commissioned recordings, some of the cuts sounding compressed and trashy, others big and bold. This discrepancy in audio quality can create some whiplash, but it does fit the slapdash nature of the whole project; it's hard to tell why each cut was chosen for inclusion as there are no real liner notes to speak of: the booklet does take note of the players on each track, which is nice, but it'd be even nicer to have some sort of context for each of the cuts here. Nevertheless, this is an enjoyable enough sampler of modern Texas blues in its many permutations, from simple guitar and voice to full-bodied blues shuffles. ~by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Robert Ealey - Turn Out The Lights

Size: 111,9 MB
Time: 45:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1996
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. Turn Out The Lights (3:45)
02. One Love One Kiss (2:51)
03. She's A Rocket (4:51)
04. I Had A Dream (4:54)
05. Tica (3:33)
06. Havin' A Party (3:32)
07. All My Worries (3:15)
08. If You Need Me (4:33)
09. The River (4:31)
10. Please, Mr. Johnson (6:05)
11. Goin' To New York (3:42)

Personnel:
Robert Ealey - Vocals
Mike Morgan, Jim Suhler, Tone Sommer, Coco Montoya,
Sumter Bruton, Richard Chalk, Paul Boll - Guitars
Carlton Powell, 'Sonny' Collie, Sharon Denton - Bass
Joe Lively - Bass and Tuba
Marc Wilson, Ty Grimes, Fred Gleber - Drums
Tom Loughborough - Tambourine, Maracas
Hash Brown - Harmonica
Johnny Reno, Mark Rybiski - Saxophone

Robert Ealey was born in Texarkana, Texas. Dallas-based vocalist and songwriter Robert Ealey began singing in his local church at age 15 with a quartet group in his native Texarkana. Influenced by the likes of Lightnin' Hopkins, Lil' Son Jackson, Frankie Lee Sims and Aaron 'T-Bone' Walker, he began singing blues professionally at 20 after he moved to Dallas. In nearby Fort Worth, he joined the Boogie Chillen Boys and became a featured vocalist at the Blue Bird Club there. After singing there for 20 years, Ealey bought the Blue Bird Club and ran it for another ten years. In 1990, Ealey hooked up with guitarist Tone Sommer and began touring outside of Texas. The band quickly found an audience for their authentic Texas urban blues in Europe, where they have toured more than a dozen times since 1990. Sommer and Ealey also did TV commercial work that made use of their music. Every September, Ealey performs in his own blues festival, held in Sundance Square, Fort Worth. After Black Top Records purchased several master tapes from the Top Cat label in Dallas, they released Ealey's 'Turn Out the Lights'; originally titled 'If You Need Me'. On the album, he is accompanied by a bevy of the Dallas/Fort Worth area's best blues accompanists, including Mike Morgan and Sommer on guitars, Ty Grimes on drums and Mark Rybiski on saxophones.
Robert Ealey is a Fort Worth legend! Texas blues fans should own this album. The title track is one if his most famous. The guitar and beat on 'One Love, One Kiss' is electrifying. The musicians contributing to this album have done a superb job of capturing that fat Texas sound.Excellent is all on this album. The guitar will drive you crazy. Great artists, great sax & vocals, good writing skills every song is strong. The kind of tunes that just keep playing in your head till you hear it again.

Turn Out The Lights

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Robert Ealey & His Five Careless Lovers - Live At The New Blue Bird Nite Club

Size: 105,3 MB
Time: 41:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1973
Source: Vinyl FLAC (HQ Rip)
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. Further On Up The Road (3:19)
02. Got My Mojo Workin' (3:39)
03. Black Night (3:58)
04. Turn On Your Lovelight (5:34)
05. Robert's Little Johnny (5:13)
06. Dust My Broom (3:45)
07. Sweet Sixteen (6:51)
08. Boogie Children (9:25)

Personnel:
Bass – Four String Jack
Drums – Barrell House Bucky
Guitar – SOB Sammy, Sliding Sumpter Bruton
Piano – Good Rocking Ralph
Vocals – Robert Ealey

Ealey was born in Texarkana, Texas. In his teens he sang in a quartet in his church.

Following service in the Army in World War II, Ealey moved to Dallas in 1951, having been singing professionally from the age of 20. In Fort Worth, he formed a duo, the Boogie Chillun Boys, with the guitarist U. P. Wilson. The Boogie Chillun Boys provided inspiration to fellow Texan singer and guitarist Ray Sharpe.[3] The Bluebird Club in Fort Worth was Ealey's musical base for more than thirty years. His involvement was such that he co-owned the club from 1977 to 1989. His 1973 live album, Live at the New Bluebird Nightclub, was billed as by Robert Ealey and the Five Careless Lovers, and included contributions from Mike Buck. It was produced by T-Bone Burnett.

Live At The New Blue Bird Nite Club

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Robert Ealey - If You Need Me / Blues That Time Forgot

Album: If You Need Me
Size: 115,7 MB
Time: 49:08
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. Turn Out The Lights (3:46)
02. One Love One Kiss (2:50)
03. She's A Rocket (4:51)
04. I Had A Dream (4:54)
05. Tica (3:33)
06. Havin' A Party (3:32)
07. All My Worries (3:15)
08. If You Need Me (4:32)
09. The River (4:32)
10. Please Mr. Johnson (6:05)
11. Goin' To New York (3:43)
12. Open Up Your Door (3:29)

Dallas-based vocalist and songwriter Robert Ealey began singing in his local church at age 15 with a quartet group in his native Texarkana. Influenced by the likes of Lightnin' Hopkins, Lil' Son Jackson, Frankie Lee Sims and Aaron "T-Bone" Walker, he began singing blues professionally at 20 after he moved to Dallas. In nearby Fort Worth, he joined the Boogie Chillen Boys and became a featured vocalist at the Blue Bird Club there. After singing there for 20 years, Ealey bought the Blue Bird Club and ran it for another ten years.

In 1990, Ealey hooked up with guitarist Tone Sommer and began touring outside of Texas. The band quickly found an audience for their authentic Texas urban blues in Europe, where they have toured more than a dozen times since 1990. Sommer and Ealey also did TV commercial work that made use of their music. Every September, Ealey performs in his own blues festival, held in Sundance Square, Fort Worth.

After BlackTop Records purchased several master tapes from the Top Cat label in Dallas, they released Ealey's Turn Out the Lights. On the album, he is accompanied by a bevy of the D/FW area's best blues accompanists, including Mike Morgan and Sommer on guitars, Ty Grimes on drums and Mark Rybiski on saxophones. I Like Music When I Party followed in 1997. ~by Richard Skelly

If You Need Me

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Album: Blues That Time Forgot
Size: 159,2 MB
Time: 68:21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. Johnny's Boogie (4:43)
02. Robert's Jump (4:41)
03. Johnny's Blues (5:38)
04. Believe I'll Go Back Home (7:51)
05. Robert's Tune (4:11)
06. Worried Life Blues (4:07)
07. Johnny's Broomduster (4:01)
08. Oh, Baby (4:49)
09. You Know I Love You (6:21)
10. Johnny's Shuffle (5:06)
11. So Long, Baby (9:43)
12. I Want You To Love Me (7:05)

"Blues That Time Forgot" -- back to the Texas Roadhouse Blues scene of 1969-70, with a long-lost set of live recordings by Robert Ealey's band -- long before Ealey became the premier blues singer of Fort Worth, Texas. Electrified Texas blues in its purest, most raw form!

Blues That Time Forgot

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Robert Ealey - You Don't Get This Every Day

Size: 135,0 MB
Time: 58:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Front

01. Faith (3:00)
02. Red Dog (3:19)
03. I Love You (5:08)
04. Sally Mae (2:19)
05. Say What (2:39)
06. Come On Baby (4:02)
07. Leaving D F.W (4:22)
08. Big Leg Woman (3:48)
09. Don't Bite (4:07)
10. Keep Pushin' (4:03)
11. Natural Love Song (3:20)
12. Baby Don't Work (3:49)
13. Coulda Had It (4:23)
14. Jenny Song (3:56)
15. Antones Blues (6:03)

Dallas-based vocalist and songwriter Robert Ealey began singing in his local church at age 15 with a quartet group in his native Texarkana. Influenced by the likes of Lightnin' Hopkins, Lil' Son Jackson, Frankie Lee Sims and Aaron "T-Bone" Walker, he began singing blues professionally at 20 after he moved to Dallas. In nearby Fort Worth, he joined the Boogie Chillen Boys and became a featured vocalist at the Blue Bird Club there. After singing there for 20 years, Ealey bought the Blue Bird Club and ran it for another ten years.

In 1990, Ealey hooked up with guitarist Tone Sommer and began touring outside of Texas. The band quickly found an audience for their authentic Texas urban blues in Europe, where they have toured more than a dozen times since 1990. Sommer and Ealey also did TV commercial work that made use of their music. Every September, Ealey performs in his own blues festival, held in Sundance Square, Fort Worth.

After BlackTop Records purchased several master tapes from the Top Cat label in Dallas, they released Ealey's Turn Out the Lights. On the album, he is accompanied by a bevy of the D/FW area's best blues accompanists, including Mike Morgan and Sommer on guitars, Ty Grimes on drums and Mark Rybiski on saxophones. I Like Music When I Party followed in 1997. ~by Richard Skelly

You Don't Get This Every Day

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The Texas Bluesmen Revue - Live In Berlin

Size: 167,9 MB
Time: 71:56
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Full

01. Rock Me (6:42)
02. Blues With A Feeling (8:32)
03. The Hustler (4:54)
04. Mojo Backfired (5:29)
05. Blue Monday (5:10)
06. Kansas City (2:12)
07. Mardi Gras (2:39)
08. Curlys Blues (4:45)
09. Trouble Trouble (2:46)
10. Dust My Broom (4:52)
11. I Want My Love (3:50)
12. Why You Treat Me So Wrong (2:48)
13. I Want Your Love (5:44)
14. One Love, One Kiss (4:39)
15. Topcat Shuffle (6:47)

Joe Jonas: Harmonica, Vocals
Curly "Barefoot" Miller: Piano, Vocals
Robert Ealey: Vocals, Trambone 'Human Harp'
Tone Sommer: Guitar
Richard Chalk: Guitar
Andy Forster: Bass
Ty Grimes: Drums

In February and March 1995, seven Texas Blues musicians set out on a European journey to spread their Texas Style Of Blues from Athens to Amsterdam and many points in-between through four countries. The Texas Bluesmen European Rhythm & Blues Revue stars consisted of Texas blues veterans Curly 'Barefoot' Miller (92 yrs.), Robert Ealey (71 yrs.) and Joe Jonas (59 yrs.). So, what you're holding in your hands here is piece of Blues History. This is the Texas Bluesmen Revue recorded live at the Floz in Berlin, Germany on 22 February, 1995. This is probably the first and the last time this complete show will ever be performed.

Live In Berlin

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