Austin, Texas roots rockers land at Shank Hall on Wednesday, April 14 for an 8 p.m. gig. You can win tickets to the show.
You may remember this quintet by the unexpected success of its disc, "Bulletproof," which nestled into Billboard's Top 200 albums chart and the top 25 country albums slate in the same publication.
Now, R. Kelly (sorry, couldn't help myself), is back with "Somewhere in Time," on Yep Roc Records. The disc is 12-song tribute to Idaho cowboy Pinto Bennett.
It's hard to decide whether or not Reckless Kelly (no relation to Wreckless Eric, note the spelling variations), is a country act with a tough as nails rock and roll rhythm section or a rock and roll band with some serious honky tonk twang.
Never you mind, because Reckless Kelly is a great live band and you can find out for yourself, by looking me up on Twitter and being the fifth person to start following me after this blog goes up.
Then, you're in like Flynn for the Shank Hall gig. And tell 'em I sent ya.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
