Artist: Robert Ealey
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
If You Need Me
Year:
Tracks: 12
I Like Music When I Party
Year:
Tracks: 12
Dallas-based vocalizer and songster Robert Ealey began telling in his local church service at age 15 with a quartette 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 telling blues professionally at 20 after he affected to Dallas. In nearby Fort Worth, he linked the Boogie Chillen Boys and became a featured vocalizer at the Blue Bird Club there. After telling there for 20 years, Ealey bought the Blue Bird Club and ran it for another x years.
In 1990, Ealey hooklike up with guitarist Tone Sommer and began touring outside of Texas. The stria cursorily establish an hearing for their reliable Texas urban blues in Europe, where they birth toured more than a twelve times since 1990. Sommer and Ealey likewise did TV commercial work that made use of their music. Every September, Ealey performs in his possess blues festival, held in Sundance Square, Fort Worth.
Afterwards BlackTop Records purchased several maestro tapes from the Top Cat judge 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.
