Comin Back Hard [PA] (CD - 2009)

Personnel: Bobby Jones (vocals); Finis Tasby, Bobby Lee Jones (vocals); Frank 'Paris Slim' Goldwasser, Junior Watson, Kid Ramos, Kirk Fletcher (guitar); Al Blake, Lynwood Slim, Randy Chortkoff (harmonica); David Woodford (tenor saxophone); Fred Kaplan (piano); Ronnie James Weber (upright bass, electric bass); Tom Leavey (electric bass); Richard 'Big Foot' Innes (drums); Cynthia Manley (background vocals).

Audio Mixers: David Z. ; Chuck Kavooras; Randy Chortkoff.

Liner Note Author: Scott Dirks.

Recording information: SlideAway Music Studio.

Photographer: Kelly "Mikey" Davis.

As a singer who has kicked around the Chicago blues scene since the late 1950s, working with everyone from Dave and Louis Myers to Syl Johnson, Bobby Jones brings a long rich history to COMIN' BACK HARD, but shockingly it's his first solo album of straight-up Chicago blues (he previously recorded in a Southern-soul vein as Bobby Jonz). Jones was a guest singer with Chicago blues traditionalists The Mannish Boys, and they return the favor by backing him on COMIN' BACK HARD, whose hard-hitting tracks evoke the classic Chess recordings of the '50s but feel consistently vital, never overly nostalgic. minimize