Bob Freedman
In RealAudio 3.0 format
In RealAudio 3.0 Format
You might ask yourself "Why is a nice Jewish boy from San Francisco (originally Los Angeles) playing country music?" Good question, and I don't have a real answer - only that I've been listening to and playing country music for an awful long time - about 34 years or so.
Now while I don't have enough space to tell you the whole story, I can tell you that the music on this album represents my personal rebellion against the Nashville music machine. Country music used to be the white man's blues -now it's pop music with a fiddle player. It used to be songs about drinking, gambling, cheating, and heartbreak. Now it's boring ballads about what a great guy grandpa was, achey-breaky boot-scootin' garbage in my opinion. Radio ignores the greatest writers and artists of all time in favor of artists and groups that are all image and no substance - MTV goes country.
For the most part, the songs on this CD are written with a sense of humor that's been missing in country music since it moved to FM radio - the real stuff's still on AM radio. Remember Commander Cody? Tom T. Hall? Bobby Bare? Homer & Jethro? Like all of them, I don't take myself too seriously - I write songs that will make you want to smile and laugh, get up and dance, and generally have fun and drink another beer (without crying in it).
1. California City Boy
2. Burnin' Up The Blacktop
3. All My Friends Were Rockin' And Rollin'
4. Red, White And Blew It*
5. If My Guitar Had Legs
6. Called 9-1-1
7. L.A. County Jail
8. Ten Years And Counting
9. The Ballad Of Number 24*
10. Country In My Bones
11. Bay Bridge Boogie
12. I Wanna Be A Cowboy Too
*RealAudio file
Contact:
Bob Freedman
1277 Linda Mar Center, #388
Pacifica, CA 94044
(415)355-3149
banjobob@netwizards.net
http://www.banjobob.com