Bobby Flores
Bobby Flores is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, arranger, producer, composer and first call session musician. He studied music theory and classical violin at Trinity University under the late Domenick Saltarelli, jazz guitar with Jackie King and classical guitar with David Underwood. Bobby is featured on over four hundred albums, CD’s and singles, including performances with numerous artists on major labels. He composes music for radio and television commercials airing throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia. While Bobby feels at home in the country, pop-rock, jazz, blues, Latin and classical genres, he also enjoys composing for and performing with string quartets.
In 1968, at the age of seven, Bobby started his professional career by performing at local functions and Texas area circuits in a gospel duo with his mother Mary Jane Flores. Two years later, Bobby began working nightclubs as a featured single artist with George Chambers & The Country Gentlemen, a well known San Antonio country band.
The next ten years would set the precedence for Bobby’s career. He formed his first band at the age of thirteen and started opening for national artists such as Tanya Tucker and Conway Twitty. To coincide with Bobby’s live performances, he was also chosen to be a feature spokesman for the regional Big Red soft drink television commercials. Shortly afterward, he recorded his first of four charting country singles and released his first LP album on the San Antonio based Joey Records.
By the middle 80’s, Bobby had become bandleader, show opener and fiddle player for Johnny Bush and the Bandoleros, vocalist/guitarist for Top 40 and rock bands, “Gone City” and “The Boiz”, and was also performing with the Trinity University Community Orchestra.
In 1988, along with brother, Greg and sister, Sandra, Bobby formed the band “Angel Fire” and played the Texas “A” circuit until 1997, opening for numerous country superstars, including George Strait and Garth Brooks. Shortly thereafter, he toured the U.S. and Canada with David Kersh (Curb Records), including performances for Prime Time Country on TNN and numerous radio shows. As fate would have it, this turn of events led him to his dream job of becoming first violin/fiddle player for Ray Price through 2001. This also inspired Bobby to record his debut CD, “Just For The Record”. In 2002, Bobby received a Grammy Award for string and brass arrangements and violin performances on Freddy Fender's CD, “La Musica de Baldemar Huerta”.
It’s 2007, and Bobby Flores is continuously gaining recognition as one of Texas’ premier musicians and vocalists, both on stage and in the studio.
- 2007 Inducted into the Texas Western Swing Hall Of Fame
- 2004 Academy of Western Artist’s - “Western Swing Instrumentalist of the Year”
- 2004 Terry Award Winner – “Fiddle Player of the Year”
- 2004 3rd Coast Music – “Male Artist of the Year”
- 2004 Swingin’ West – “Album of the Year” (Just For The Record)
- 2004 Take Country Back – “Top 10 Album of the Year”
- 2002 Grammy Award winning musician
Visit Bobby's personal website and The Bobby Flores Band website
Neon Nights
Songlist
- Country Girl
- I'm So Afraid Of Losing You Again
- The Same Old Memories
- Spanish Eyes
- Talk Back Trembling Lips
- Case Of Sorrow
- I Hate You
- Who'll Be The First To Say (I Told You So)
- I Let My Mind Wander
- A Stranger Was Here
- Make The World Go Away
Credits
- Drums: Jim Loessberg
Upright Bass: Jake Hooker
Electric Bass: Johnny Loessberg (Trks. 4,5,11)
Piano: Randy Reinhard
Guitars, Fiddles, Viola, Vocals: Bobby Flores
Guitar: Dave Biller (Trks. 4 & 5)
Guest Fiddlers: John Schattenberg (Trks. 4,6,11) Ron Knuth (Trks. 5 & 8), Reggie Rueffer (Trks. 5 & 11)
Steel Guitar: Tommy Detamore (Trks. 3 & 7)
Bobby Flores (Trk. 8), Jim Loessberg (Trk. 10)
Rick Price (Trks. 1 & 2), Randy Reinhard (Trks. 4,5,6,9,11) - Recorded & Mixed at Yellow Rose Studio, Blanco, TX.
(www.yellowrosestudio.com)
1-866-264-2400, P.O. Box 1526, Blanco, TX. 78606
Mastered by Tommy Detamore at Cherry Ridge Studio
(www.cherryridgestudio.com)
$15.00 (plus shipping and handling)
Direct From Blanco County
Songlist
- I Didn't Realize
- Darkness On The Face Of The Earth
- Four In The Morning
- Different Kind Of Flower
- Rose-Colored Glasses
- Don't Say Love Or Nothing
- I've Got A New Road Under My Wheels
- He'll Let You Live A Little
- Burning A Hole In My Mind
- Shoes Of A Fool
- Jealous Heart
- Waltz Of The Tumbleweed
- Meanest Jukebox in Town
- A Maiden's Prayer
Credits
- Drums: Jim Loessberg
- Upright Bass: Jake Hooker
- Electric Bass: Johnny Loessberg #13, Gerald Connell #7
- Piano: Andy Langham #1, Bobby Flores #13, 14, Randy Reinhard on all others.
- Steel Guitar: Randy Reinhard #1,4,5,7,11, 12 & 14 Tommy Detamore #9, Rick Price # 3, 10, Dicky Overbey #2, 6, Jim Loessberg #13, Bobby Flores #8
- Electric Guitars: Dave Biller #1, 4 & Richard Wolfe #7
- Fiddles, Acoustic Guitars, Elec. Gtr., Tic-Tac: Bobby Flores
- Strings #2, 12 & John Schattenberg-
- Viola, Ron Knuth-5 String Fiddle, Bobby Flores-Fiddle.
- Background Vocals: Greg Flores #8, 10
- Guest vocalist #4, 7: Richard Wolfe.
- Produced by Bobby Flores
- Exec. Producer Al Michalczak.
- Recorded and mixed at Yellow Rose Studio, Blanco, TX.
- Mastered by Tommy Detamore at Cherry Ridge Studio, Floresville, TX.
$15.00 (plus shipping and handling)
Two Many Rivers
Songlist
- Big Shoes
- When Your House Is Not A Home
- Brothers, Strangers and Friends
- My Life's Been A Pleasure
- Too Many Rivers
- The Last Letter
- Too Late
- Unloved, Unwanted
- I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
- I've Just Destroyed The World I'm Living In
- How Long Is Forever This Time
Credits
- Drums: Jim Loessberg
- Bass: Allen Chapman, Jake Hooker (appears courtesy of Southland Records)
- Piano: Randy Reinhard
- Guitars: Bobby Flores
- Steel: Randy Reinhard, Rick Price, Dicky Overbey, Tommy Detamore, Bobby Flores
- Fiddles: Bobby Flores
- Producer: Bobby Flores
- Executive Producer: Al Michalczak
- Recorded at: BGM Studio, San Antonio, TX.
Cherry Ridge Studio, Floresville, TX.
Yellow Rose Studio, Blanco, TX. - Mixed & Mastered by: Bill Green, Tommy Detamore & Bobby Flores
$15.00 (plus shipping and handling)
Festival Favorites
Songlist
- I'll Have Somebody Else
- Too Much Love
- Twenty Fourth Hour
- Silverlake Blues
- Curtain In The Window
- I Wonder Who'll Turn Out The Lights
- Keeper Of My Heart
- Danny Boy
- South Of The Border
- I've Got A New Heartache
Credits
- Drums: Jim Loessberg
- Upright Bass: Jake Hooker (appears courtesy of Southland Records)
- Piano: Randy Reinhard
- Guitars: Bobby Flores
- Steel: Randy Reinhard, Dicky Overbey
- Fiddles: Bobby Flores, John Schattenberg
- Background vocals: Jake Hooker, Bill Green
- Recorded: April & May '04 at B.G.M. Studio, San Antonio, TX.
- Produced by: Bobby Flores
- Executive Producer: Al Michalczak
$15.00 (plus shipping and handling)
Just For The Record
Songlist
- One More Time
- I'd Fight The World
- Just For the Record
- Bubbles In My Beer
- I'll Find A Way
- The Same Two Life
- Spicher Waltz
- I Don't Know Why
- I Lie A Lot
- Be A Good Girl
- Soft Rain
- Your Old Love Letters
- I'm Still Not Over You
- Oh Lonesome Me
Credits
- Drums: Jim Loessberg, Phil Dalmolin, Dan Dreeben, Bill Green, Jerrad Green, John "Smiley" Reynolds, Larry Roberson.
- Bass: Allen Chapman, Gerald Connell, Jake Hooker, Justin Trevino.
- Piano: Randy Reinhard
- Guitars: Tommy Nash, Richard Wolfe, Bobby Flores
- Steel: Randy Reinhard, Jerry Blanton, Gary Carpenter, Tommy Detamore, Jim Loessberg, Dicky Overbey, Rick Price, Herb Steiner, Bobby Flores.
- Fiddles: John Schattenberg, Ron Knuth, Reggie Rueffer, Bobby Flores.
- Vibes: Thomas Detamore, III.
- Harmony and guest vocals: Jake Hooker, Justin Trevino, Billy Mata.
- Guest vocalist: Richard Wolfe
- Produced by: Bobby Flores
- Executive Producer: Al Michalczak
$15.00 (plus shipping and handling)