R&B Bombers

Jon Norton of WGLT Blues in Illinois describes them as a ?killer jump blues band from Southern California.? The band originally formed in the early 1980's and had some great initial success with their first LP simply entitled ?The R&B Bombers?, played in countless festivals all over Southern California and was the house band at the Ojai Bowlful of Blues for the first three years of it's existence, backing up artists such as Charlie Musselwhite, Johnny Copeland, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, and Pee Wee Crayton to name a few.

They re-issued the original LP on CD with 3 additional tunes add in 2008, then in 2009 recorded and released a new CD with all original material called "Bad Behavior."

The R&B Bombers are a unique blend of classic and contemporary American music styles that conjure up images of a Storyville speakeasy, the Cotton Club in Harlem, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis from the birth of Rock & Roll, B.B. and the rest of the Kings in a southern roadhouse or in Chicago, a Memphis soul stew with ingredients from the back roads of Macon and Augusta, Georgia, the sophistication of Billy Eckstine and Joe Williams fronting the Count Basie Band, and the bloodline of blues artists that have sprung from the most unlikely of locations, Santa Barbara, California!



"With a 4-horn frontline and big-voiced singer in Joe Wilson, the R&B Bombers come out of the jump-blues comba tradition that inspired Roomful of Blues...The lush ballad that lends the self-released 'Bad Behavior' its title is stunning." Tom Hyslop, Blues Revue Magazine

?Throughout [Bad Behavior], the rhythm section and 4 horns adhere to the swinging verities with vigor and interest.? Frank-John Hadley, Downbeat Magazine

??these fellas stand alone as a terrific 9-piece Jump Blues outfit, ready to party at the drop of a hat, and possessing the skills to get the job done.? Johnny Fulltime Blues, FulltimeBlues.com and WUEV-FM

"The R&B Bombers have another winner after last year's[re-release] dating from the band's early days?? Ben the Harpman, Juke Joint Soul