Beautiful Bobby Blackmon
Travelin" Home
© 2005 Bobby Blackmon (825346848020)
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This music is a mixture of contemporary urban blues with some added funky southern soul-blues flavor. It's danceable with some tasty guitar and vocals from a soon to be recognized artist.
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This is Beautiful Bobby's second CD. He gained many new blues fans from his 2002 "I'm Dialin 911" CD.(Check it out at www.cdbaby.com/bbb). He has a fan base in Florida and the tourists that visit from other countries are making more people around the world aware of this relatively new bluesman with the "sit back and let me entertain you" attitude.
Beautiful Bobby's new CD, Travelin' Home, release date was January 1, 2005. This CD is the closest to being at a live blues show. Beautiful Bobby gathered together his current working musicians and they did not hold back on their performances. He delivers on some soulful guitar solos and vocals and it will be the CD that you will play over and over again. He dug down deep in his Texas soul to give you some new blues songs that will excite your appetite for something new in 2005.
Check out his light rockish/blues solos on "I Don't Know But I Gotta Go" and "The Bluest Blues". Then he takes you to blues church on "Feels Like Rain" and "It Ain't Easy" and it's been a long time since someone has laid down this kind of moanin & groanin style of singing on a blues CD.
He brings out his Texas roots in a blues shuffle, "I Been Down So Long". His "If Mama Ain't Happy" will have the ladies saying that they can identify with this song so fellows beware. On to some good old funky southern soul-blues with "I'm Gonna Dedicate The Blues", "I Had A Dream Last Night" and "Sin City". If you lost your blues groove you will get it back on these songs. Let's not leave out "Tip-Toeing" and "Turn Me On Or Turn Me Off" and he smoothes it out with "Movin In The Wrong Direction".
Beautiful Bobby writes, plays and sings from the heart. It's nice to have an artist who can give you various styles of the blues. It's your choice to sit and listen or you can get up and dance when you hear the music. This CD could be the surprise blues CD of the year. Listen to the sound samples and get hooked on the new bluesman that will soon be recognized as one of the best hidden unsigned blues talents around.
Beautiful Bobby was one of the headliners on the November 2004 Riverwalk Blues Festival in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl and shared the stage with the likes of: Buddy Guy, Kenny Neal, Jimmy Thackery, Tab Benoit, Billy Branch, James Cotton, Marcia Ball, etc.
Performance Review: Riverwalk Blues Festival NOV' 2004:
As far as I am concerned, the next act I saw, a relative unknown outside the southeastern part of the country, was the festival's highlight. When the Blues world finally discovers Beautiful Bobby Blackmon, it will be a better world. Bobby's story is similar to that of Jody Williams. Like Jody, Bobby worked at a white-collar corporate job for many years. It was not until he retired from that environment that he was able to dedicate his full attention to the music. Well, let me tell you, he is catching up fast. Remember that you read it hear first when I tell you that Beautiful Bobby Blackmon is the next Buddy Guy. He's got it all going, the stage presence, the personality, the smile, and the talent. Damn can he play!
--PETER "BLEWZZMAN" LAURO is a contributing editor at BluesWax.
January 2005 - Bobby jammed on The Passenger Star Search segment of Warren Hill's Smooth Jazz Cruise and turned a lot of those fans onto the blues. They will never be the same.
February 2005-CD Review-Blues Bytes Magazine:
This has been a good month for new releases, and this new one from Beautiful Bobby Blackmon, Travelin' Home (B3 Records), is right there among the top ones. It's a bluesy Southern guitar and vocal outing, and one that I've listened to many times since it arrived. The opening track, "I Don't Know But I Gotta Go," is an immediate catcher and sets the tone for the 11 great tracks that follow it. Think of Little Milton doing "Walkin' The Back Streets And Crying" and you'll get the feel of this first track, and it only gets better. John Hiatt's "Feels Like Rain" is given a tremendous effort here, perhaps the best I have heard of this Hiatt classic. The humorous "If Mama Ain't Happy" is a good storytelling song somewhat reminiscent of the type of songs Larry Garner writes, and the fabulous "The Bluest Blues," an Alvin Lee tune that lets Blackmon's guitar playing and vocals shine, are both great inclusions here. Another standout track is "It Ain't Easy," a slow blues with a fine spoken intro that immediately catches your attention. I could go through each track and expound on it's merits, but you need to check this CD out for yourself. It is independent efforts like this that we in the blues community should support, so pick up a copy of this great new CD and then email Bobby at B3Comm@aol.com and let him know how much you enjoyed his newest CD.
--- Alan Shutro
CD - Review
Twelve Bar Rag
Suncoast Blues Society
March/April 2005 Issue
Beautiful Bobby Blackmon,Travelin' Home, B3 Records:
From his independent label, B3, Bobby has released his new recording titled, Travelin' Home. There are twelve tunes here that were all penned by Blackmon with the exception of the John Hiatt song "Feels Like Rain" and Alvin Lee's "Bluest Blues". Not only does Beautiful Bobby have the vocal and guitar delivery, but he is a talented songwriter. He opens with a soulful number called "I Don't Know But I Gotta Go" that sets the stage for a good hour's worth of blues. The number three cut, "I Been Down So Long," allows all the Texas influence to come through with this straight ahead blues song. It is the number four song that has been playing on my head since I got this CD a few days ago. It revolves around a blues man in trouble with his woman. The title "If Momma Ain't Happy" tells the whole story. "If Momma ain't happy there ain't gonna be nobody happy tonight." Then of course the fifth song, "I'm Gonna Dedicate The Blues To You" is a toe tapper that will stick in your memory as well.
Beautiful Bobby slips right on into other songs that allow him to express his take on the blues with numbers like, " I Had A Dream Last Night" and Tip-Toeing." The following songs, "It Ain't Easy," "Sin City," and "Turn Me On or Turn Me Off," showcases Bobby's vocals and some excellent guitar work. The bass playing of Chuck Newcomb, drums of Darnel Kelly and keyboard of Jack Bumgarner follow Bobby's lead very well here. The closing song called, "Movin In The Wrong Direction" is a lament over love gone wrong, and delivered so well that you will find yourself hitting replay to go through the number another time.
If he keeps making music like the songs found on Travelin Home we stand to lose him to a national audience. So get out and see him when he comes to town.
---Tim Graham
June 2005 - CD Review - Blues In Britain Magazine:
Beautiful Bobby Blackmon served his apprenticeship in Houston, Texas, backing artists like Barbara Lynn, James and Bobby Purify, Buddy Ace and T-Bone Walker, bringing all of those influences to bear on "Travellin' Home", his second CD, a soulful, often funky slab of Texas blues.
Blackmon opens in style with the beautiful "I Don't Know But I Gotta Go", his wistful vocals underpinned by deeply soulful guitar and organ (Jack Bumgarner), before moving on to John Hiatt's "Feels Like Rain", the deep timbre of his tender and poignant vocals echoed by his guitar. Blackmon's soul blues credentials are further enhanced by his heartrending vocals on "The Bluest Blues", where you can literally feel his pain; "It Ain't Easy" finds his guitar literally weeping in sympathy with his vocals; whilst on "Movin' In The Long Direction", a moving tale of infidelity, his guitar echoes the pain and resignation in his vocals, jazz inflected piano enhancing the melancholy that permeates the song.
Many of Blackmon's blues mine a funky groove, Otis Redding coming to mind on "I Had A Dream Last Night"; Bobby Rush's influence, both in style and subject matter, permeating the churning "Tip-Toeing", whilst the Stax feel on "Sin City" is achieved by synthesized horns, which, fortunately, due to the quality of Blackmon's vocals are rendered fairly unobtrusive.
This leaves "I Been Down So Long", a shuffle with gritty vocals that remind me of a fusion of BB King, Jimmy Johnson and Long John Hunter; the mention of Hunter being quite apt, as the photo on the cover of this set could easily be mistaken for one of the Texas giant.
Blackmon is blessed with an abundance of talent that deserves wider exposure.
---Mick Rainsford
June 2005 CD Review - Living Blues Magazine
Guitarist Bobby Blackmon...this is his second CD.
Blackmon is a deft wordsmith, capable of couching intense emotionality in casual language. .....He packs multi-syllabic words into off-meter patterns, and otherwise tweaks expected norms of musical syntax in a way that makes even his most carefully crafted creations sound streetsy.
Blackmon's guitar style reflects the way he craft his lyrics. He fires off eccentrically placed phrases, shot through with passion and sweet-toned emotionality, each note carefully articulated.................neo-funk song Tip-Toeing..Blackmon sounds as he's wailing his tale from a dark corner in a whiskey-scented juke.
The best urban blues can combime pop-influenced sophistication with an unadorned rootsiness that recalls the music's vernacular origins. That's the kind of sound Bobby Blackmon specializes in, and it's a sound we need more of in our increasingly commodified and homogenized world.
- David Whiteis
September - 2005 Review - Headliner for the Ft. Pierce Jazz/Blues Society "Street Party" - Ft. Pierce, Fl.....
"Following "THE SHAKERS", which was not an enviable task, was the events headliner - "BEAUTIFUL BOBBY BLACKMON". As BBB was taking the stage, it was pointed out to me by Vern Melvin, one of our band selection committee members, that "BOBBY had better have his A game with him having to follow that", as Vern referred to the hot set "THE SHAKERS" had just put on. As it turned out, "BEAUTIFUL BOBBY BLACKMON had his A+ game with him. BBB confidently took the stage and did what he always does - he tore the place up. His vocals were sharp, his guitar playing was blistering and his stage presence was energetic. BOBBY had the 500 or so people that were still present all on their feet and shaking in the street. Had BOBBY not put a 30 year white collar career ahead of his music, the two top names in the blues today may very well read like this... B.B. and B.B.B. Joining BOBBY on vocals and lead guitar were the rest of the "B3 BLUES BAND" - His longtime friend and band mate JACK BUMGARNER on piano, JOHN CHARCARA on bass, and JAMES "CADILLAC" CARDARELLI on drums".
As BEAUTIFUL BOBBY BLACKMON'S set, and the whole night came to an end, it was apparent that this end was also a beginning - the beginning of THE FT. PIERCE JAZZ AND BLUES SOCIETY.....
--PETER "BLEWZZMAN" LAURO is a contributing editor at BluesWax.
November - 2005 - Opening for Delta Moon - Gainesville Downtown Blues Festival, Gainesville, Fl
November - 2005 - Headliner - sharing the stage with James Peterson, Lucky Peterson, Shaun Rounds, Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Sarasota Slim and Smokin Torps - Orlando 2nd Annual Blues Festival, Orlando, Fl
June - 2006 - Opening for Buddy Guy - HOB, Orlando, Fl
July - 2006 - Headliner for Suncoast Blues Society
Sept - 2006 - Co-Headliner with Deborah Coleman for Ft. Pierce Jazz/Blues Society
February - 2007 - Headliner for Leesburg Mardi Gras
April - 2007 - WLOQ - Mall at Millenia - Headliner, Orlando,Fl
April - 2007 - Headliner for Leesburg Bikefest
May - 2007 - Pre-show for Jim Belushi - Hard Rock Cafe
August - 2007 - Headliner for Helen Stairs Concert - 600 attendees - Sanford, Fl
August - 2007 - Guest Artist - Hammnond B3s Blues vs Jazz Concert - 1000 attendees - St. Pete, Fl
January 2008 - First local blues band to appear at the new BB King's Club in Orlando, Fl
March 2008 - Great Atlantic Seafood Fest-Jax Beach, Fl
July 2008 - Cape Fear Blues Fest - Wilmington, NC
March 2008 - BB King's Club, Orlando, Fl, regular on Sunday & Monday nights
Reviews are appreciated. Customers have purchased this CD in these countries: China, Japan, Norway, UK, Germany, Canada, France, Poland, Sweden, Belguim, Switzerland, Finland, Spain and Ireland.
Beautiful Bobby Blackmon & The B3 Band:
Bobby's current working/traveling band consist of three of the best musicians in Orlando; Mike Simms (Bass),Jack Bumgarner(Keys)and Curtis Nutall(Drums)
2009 - Band Schedule -All Gigs with band unless noted SOLO.
July 5-6 - BB Kings Club - Orlando, Fl - 7:30 P.M.
July 10 - Ruby St Grille - Tavares, Fl - SOLO - 8 P.M.
July 12-13 - BB Kings Club - Orlando, Fl - 7:30 P.M.
July 18 - Dexters-Winter Park, Fl - 8:30 P.M.
July 19-20 - BB Kings Club - Orlando, Fl - 7:30 P.M.
July 26-27 - BB Kings Club - Orlando, Fl - 7:30 P.M.
August 7-8 - Jeremiah's/McGregor Bar- Mt. Dora, Fl - 9:30 P.M.
August 23 - Lakeridge Winery - Clermont, Fl - 2 P.M.
September 19 - Dexters-Winter Park, Fl - 8:30 P.M.
October 3 - Private Party - Leesburg, Fl - 7 P.M.
October 10 - Dexters-Winter Park, Fl - 8:30 P.M.
November 14 - Leu Gardens - Orlando, Fl - 7 P.M. - 10 P.M.
November 15 - Lakeridge Winery - Clermont, Fl - 2 P.M.
December 5 - Dexters-Winter Park, Fl - 8:30 P.M.
December 11 - Private Party - SOLO - The Villages, Fl, 7 P.M.
December 12 - Private Party - Mt. Dora, Fl - 6 P.M.
December 13 - Lakeridge Winery - Clermont, Fl - 2 P.M.
2010
March 20 - Wedding Reception - Leesburg, Fl - 6 P.M.
Send Bobby an e-mail to inquire about his complete music schedule (group & solo) or just to say hello.
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Deep Soul
author: Peter Tschirkyhello from switzerland, this is a must for all Deep-soul-blues fans. Great music, great voice, great band!!!!!!!
Travelin Home
author: Greg "Papa G" LamphearI recently saw Bobby for the first time at the Lakeridge Winery in Clermont, Fl.I purchased his CD and it has been on in my car everyday since.I look forward to seeing you at the HOB in 2 weeks. Coming from Chicago, it felt good to hear the Blues, the way it should be.
Sounds of Time Entertainment
author: Kathy MongerioLove what your doing. Hope to jam with you sometime. Come see us at the square this Thursday at Spanish Springs Kathy and Tony
Blues at its best!
author: Teague StefanI recently had the luxury of sharing the stage with Beautiful Bobby Blackmon and I must say, What a player! Bobby puts on a great show and has an awesome CD here that is true to the blues and I recommend to everyone who digs good music!
The next step in BBB's Blues Evolution!
author: tom gloverThis CD is the next step in BBB's evolution as an excellent blues entertainer. The songs are a thoughful compilation of blues tunes, and again: BBB sings and plays the notes with all the right emphasis to make you FEEL the blues. Clearly, I'm a fan: thanks Bobby !
BBB's new CD, Travel Home is a definite buy.
author: Garvin BaileyTravelin Home is a great blues CD featuring BBB, one of the best blues sounds around. I 1st saw BBB was at Lopez Country Club in The Villages and bought the CD. BBB is one of the best blues guitar players around.
BEAUTIFUL!!!
author: KateJust got this CD and loved it! Hope ya'll have room in the front row cuz we are there! Beautiful!
Hot, Hot,Hot!
author: Mary Washington BrooksI saw Bobby this weekend at the HOuse of Blues in Orlando,Fl during a visit with my family, What a great show. The music is easy to listen to and he flat sang the blues and play that guitar.it really put me in the mind of some of the old time greats. His cd traveling home is wonderful to add to any blues collection and it surely will be the one that you play over and over again. Classic blues at its best!
Hot, Hot,Hot!
author: Mary Washington BrooksI saw Bobby this weekend at the HOuse of Blues in Orlando,Fl during a visit with my family, What a great show. The music is easy to listen to and he flat sang the blues and play that guitar.it really put me in the mind of some of the old time greats. His cd traveling home is wonderful to add to any blues collection and it surely will be the one that you play over and over again. Classic blues at its best!
Great CD
author: KeithGreat follow-up to I'm Dialin' 911. Hope some new material is in the making. If you get a chance check Bobby out Live he put's on a Great Show.
Beautiful.....
author: Marc SilverI heard this artist on the local (Chicago) blues hour, checked out the CD, ordered it and quicly got it from CD Baby...Mr. Blackmon is truly beautiful...great songs/covers and soulful singing and nice guitar work....Little effects just straight out US blues. Looks like he does not travel much out of his region but will keep my eye out for this wonderful artist....Great new (for me) find.
Deep Soul Blues at its best
author: Eddie SoyeUnreservedly recommended cd of Southern Deep Soul Blues by a true Master of the Genre
Awsome as Usual
author: HalHe did not dissapoint me again! Used to see him local around Leesburg Florida and always asked him When will his new album be out? I moved away but Bobby's music never left me.
Bobby is on the fast track to the top
author: DavidI had the pleasure of seeing Bobby in person in St. Augustine by accident one night. Since that time, I have been unable to get his formidable blues essence out of my head. His style enables you to feel at one with him. He is absolutely the best blues performer I have ever heard, either in person or on CD to date. Without reservation, I will buy anything he puts out.
Good old fashioned blues!
author: ErinI saw Beautiful Bobby Blackmon live in Gainesville. I am more of a traditional swing jazz fan but his music really appealed to me. However, this CD is great for true blues fans as well. My dad, who's a big fan of the blues, described it as "good old fashioned blues." I think Beautiful Bobby's charts make you really feel the blues, his melodies stick in your head, and his rythms get your feet tapping.
Great follow-up to Dialing 911
author: cathy silerWhile 911 was a party in the car this cd took me in the house and into my soul. I Don't Know...is haunting. It rolls around in my head all day. It Ain't Easy does the same. In all the songs it's the gut grabbing guitar that really hooks me. Bobby is the real thing.
- author: Maureen Valley
It's a privilege to have Bobby in our midst here in central Florida. Bobby captures the heart and soul of what blues is all about. He's a genius at song writing and a virtuoso on the guitar. He wraps that voice of his around his original lyrics and one's heart stops. If we lose him to the 'big time'....it's well deserved. Let's hope we can still catch him and his drop dead band at our local venues. LOVE YOU BOBBY. Maureen and Jerry Valley
Pure! Heartfelt and Heartbreaking Blues at it's finest!
author: Danny NoochLove this CD. Saw Bobby live at Leesburg Bike Fest and the album does not disappoint. Smooth ballads with riff laden intros and bridges make this album a must have for any lover of southern blues. Keep 'em comin' Bobby!
A True Entertainer
author: Johnny Mag SaxSweetness !!! Buy it !! Well Worth the $$ !!! See him Live. Bobby is the real deal. I had the pleasure of sitting in with Bobby a few times and it just felt right. The guys in the band know what they are doing. Keep crankin out the good tunes Bobby !! Johnny
He Made Me Cry
author: Steve KorllosI saw Bobby at the Ft. Lauderdale Blues Festival this past November and couldn't wait to hear his latest album. Bobby's blues ballad's made a grown man cry they were so good! I'm spreading the word and can't wait for more.