Bobby Rey - I've Changed My Mind

Some 2002 info adout Bobby Rey is entered below.
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Bobby Rey
(Oct, 2002 ) - Some web info may have changed.
(Self-Release) Bobby Rey hails from South Belmar, NJ. He became interested in country music while he was young, listening to artists like Hank Williams and singing along with their recordings. He taught himself to play guitar, bass and pedal steel, and made his stage debut at age 13. He's played on the local country circuit since then. After marrying and starting a family, he needed work that was a little more financially secure though, and went into law enforcement. However, he never he never gave up his music and continued to write, play, and record his music. After a recording he did in 1989 gained substantial local attention, he decided he needed to go to Nashville to record and to more vigorously pursue his music career.

Bobby's music is the traditional brand of country- honky tonkers, shuffles and barroom weepers. Heartbreak and lost love abounds. He reaches for the more contemporary sound on a couple of the songs, however, it's the more contemporary sound of country- as in the Alan Jackson type- not the cookie cutter HNC Music Row pop fodder. Bobby has a wonderful voice for country, the kind one longs to hear on the radio these days, and the album is packed with plenty of weeping steel and fiddle. As a songwriter, he's also got a good ear for relaying a heartbreak tale, and on the love songs, he very nicely avoids saccharine, over-sentimentality.

The CD opens with a classic "what a fool I've been" honky tonker, "If These Walls Could Talk." The upbeat honky tonk of "I'm Coming Home Tonight" seems to be autobiographical, about a singer who's been in Nashville pursuing his career, and missing the woman that's keeping the homefires burning back home, and can't wait to get back home to her. "The Girl I've Looked For All My Life" is a mid-tempo ballad of loneliness and longing, set in a bar.

"Mine To Lose Again" has a more contemporary feel, but with weeping fiddle, is a mournful tale of heartbreak and regret, and delivered with an ache in his voice, Bobby keeps the song firmly country to the core. "My Memories And Me" is an aching barroom weeper recalling a lost love. "I Want Only You," with it's slight contemporary feel, is a mid-tempo confession of love. The mid-tempo honky tonker "I Can't Hold Back The Bottle," is another "lost love" acher where the narrator can't seem to lose the memories.

"I've Got The Love Sick Blues" honky tonks it's way through another night of missing you. "Hit The Gate Running" is a driving country tune about growing up, hittin' the road, and ramblin', until meeting a woman who changes all that, and makes that ramblin' man settle down. The mid-tempo ballad, "When I Saw You" tells the tale about how love can change someone's life. "Honky Tonk The Town Tonight" is a honky tonker that incorporates touches of swing, that just celebrates going out for a night on the town and having a little fun. The album closes to the shuffle of "She'll Go Home Tonight," a lament of being in love with someone else's woman.

Bobby Rey, armed with his songs of honky tonk heartbreak, weeping steel and fiddle, and reverence for the heart and soul of true country music, has what it takes to keep the traditional country music flame burning brightly. Give him a listen, and I'm sure you'll agree.
AnnMarie Harrington Take Country Back October 2002




Bobby Rey - I've Changed My Mind

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[geena6]

What a great country voice.

I love his songs.

Thanku for posting them Lloyd.

Georgina

[MisterStereo]

Agree and

you are more than welcome

Lloyd.

[NaomiWadsworth]

I like him a lot, Lloyd. *****

Thanks,

Naomi

[MisterStereo]

Quite welcome

Received  note from Bobby the other day and he is now playing Pedal steel for "Bryan Cole"

Frankly, Naomi, after listening to Mr. Cole sing, he is definately not Country or mdern cuntry.!!

Bobby Rey has a job though, in these rogh economic times though.

Lloyd.

Lloyd.

[mktmic7]

awesome Lloyd ******

[MisterStereo]

Appreciated.

Lloyd

[MisterStereo]

and I must thank Mr. Rey for sending this CD to me last year.

Lloyd

[MisterStereo]

Agree -a top notch CD

[MisterStereo]

Quite welcome

Enjoy.

Lloyd

[ROYS5166]

He sure got a new fan with these, Thanks for sharing with us.