Bob Jones & The Drive - Blues From A Westwide

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Album: Michael And Me - Lyrics:
I'm gonna call my baby
just it hear the telephone ring

If she's home, she'll think of me
but if she gone
it don't mean a thing

She's a big city woman
She don't play, she don't play
no simple games, you know
Repeat

She even gotta
hang out on the West-Side, yeah
Where she don't even
use her own name, hmm
She'll look out
her two windows, yeah
& I bet she sees
two different men, well
She'll look out her two windows
What do you think
she sees, Dick?
She'll see two different men

I bet she'd take
a good card player
I bet she'll take
a good card player
and she'll beat him
how she'll beat him
and she'll beat him
playing his own game
playing his own game

And she'll beat him
at playing his own game
And she don't play
no simple game
Repeat

Get him to where
he don't know his own name
And she don't even
use her own name
He won't even look the same
Yeah she'll beat him
Oh baby, pick up the phone

She's a big city woman
and she beat him
playing his own game
He don't even look the same
Take them cards outta his hand
Leave him barefoot
And walking in the sand
and she beat him, I says
and she beat him, yeah

She's a big city woman
She's a big city woman, why
She's gotta hang out
on the West-Side
Repeat

Where she don't even
use her own name

Thanks to Lona Popoki for the lyrics
Bob was born in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. He co-lead his guitar band in high school after switching to guitar from piano which he had studied since age six.
His professional career began as lead guitarist and instrumental arranger for We Five. He recorded two albums with them including the hit single “You Were On My Mind”. We Five’s first album and single sold more than two million copies each and has since gone on to become a classic of the folk rock period. Bob was one of the first to use an electric 12 string on recordings. The band appeared on national television numerous times and toured the United States and Canada extensively starting with The Dick Clark Caravan of Stars.

In Trident Studios playing the Rickenbacker 360/12 with We Five
Southern Comfort at Bill Graham’s Fillmore West. Left to right; Steve Funk, John Wilmeth, Ron Stallings, Karl Sevareid, Bob Jones and Fred Burton
At the end of We Five Bob found himself in the middle of the hippie revolution in San Francisco. There he founded an innovative horn based R&B band called Southern Comfort. He was lead singer, arranger and drummer for the band which produced one album for Columbia Records.

The Middle Years

It was during this period that Bob first met legendary blues guitarist Michael Bloomfield. He recorded five albums with Michael on which he played drums, guitar and sang. They also toured the United States and Canada for ten years including playing the Newport Jazz Festival. Bob is interviewed extensively in a book about these years between 1970 and 1980 called “Michael Bloomfield, If You Love These Blues, An Oral History”.

During this period of time Bob also recorded with blues legends Mississippi Fred McDowell, Nick Gravenites, Sam Lay, Harvey Mandel, Otis Rush and Taj Mahal. He also played on two Brewer and Shipley albums.

In 1986 Bob moved to Los Angeles where he formed Bob Jones and Hard Drive. He toured Finland with this band in 1995.

Now

Bob lives in Maui and DJs a radio show on Mana’o Radio 91.5FM and on the web at www.manaoradio.com every Wednesday from 2pm-5pm.
Bob also plays guitar and sings in the Gina Martinelli band. They play every Sunday at Three’s Bar And Grill and every Wednesday at Kahale’s. Both clubs are in Kihei.
In addition, Bob and Nils Rosenblad play as an acoustic duo every Thursday night at the Four Seasons Lobby Lounge in Wailea and every Friday night at Captain Jack’s in Lahaina.
But his primary project is collaborating with his musical partner Nils Rosenblad on their new band; Bob Jones And The Drive. “Michael And Me”. It is a musical retrospective of the music Bob made with “Mike Bloomfield And Friends” in the ’70s but done in a modern way.

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