Bob Malone

Los Angeles, California, USA

BandBluesRock

Blues rocker singer/songwriter BOB MALONE plays keyboards with rock legend John Fogerty, and continues his long solo career, playing over 100 shows a year worldwide. Keyboard Magazine says: "pulsating, roaring keyboard work that grabs you and shakes you until you cry for mercy.”

Biography

Los Angeles based BOB MALONE plays keyboards with rock legend John Fogerty, and continues a long running and successful solo career. He plays a one-of-a-kind hybrid of blues, rock, and New Orleans R&B, delivered with high-energy piano virtuosity and a voice all his own. He plays over 100 shows a year in the US, Europe, Australia and Asia, and has shared stages with Bruce Springsteen, Rickie Lee Jones, The Neville Brothers, Rev. Al Green, Dr. John, Leon Russell and many others. Bob was featured alongside piano legends Marcia Ball and Henry Butler at the 2012 WWOZ Piano Night at House of Blues in New Orleans. Bob has also been a twice-featured performer on The Price Is Right, and appeared with John Fogerty on The Late Show With David Letterman. His music is heard regularly on Dr. Phil, Entertainment Tonight, The Rachel Ray Show, and Wheel Of Fortune. Malone’s six CDs have earned Top-20 spots on the Living Blues, Roots Music Report and Earshot (Canada) radio charts, and are played on over 300 stations worldwide, including Sirius/XM’s Bluesville, and NPR favorites Car Talk, Acoustic Café, and Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour. Bob Malone is endorsed by Hammond Organ USA and Fishman Acoustic Transducers.

“A keyboard wizard.”
The New Yorker

"John Fogerty's five-man backup band was slouch-free — with the show-stealer trophy going to a shaggy-haired Bob Malone."
Edmonton Journal

“A new peak in what's been a rather mountainous career, Malone's latest shows off everything that makes him dear to his loyal fans.”
Filter

“For an indie artist, the path to lasting success is often long, built on perseverance and a commitment to the music. Exhibit A is Bob Malone.”
Berklee Today

“On his 6th CD, Bob Malone is clearly in the big leagues.” Music Connection

“Bob Malone doesn't just accompany himself on piano. He supports his singing with pulsating, roaring keyboard work that grabs you and shakes you until you cry for mercy.” Keyboard Magazine

Lyrics

Butterfly

Written By: Bob Malone

She’s too beautiful to be approachable
She’s cynical, thinks love is negotiable
So the good men watch, paralyzed with fear
While another loser breaks her heart and disappears

He’ll put her on display
But he won’t ever let her fly away

She’s a butterfly...on a pin
No price too high for such a perfect specimen
Butterfly, can’t spread her wings
Although she’s tried again and again
They just pull her right out of the sky
Butterfly...

She gets obsession confused with devotion
Loves the shiny fools gold of counterfeit emotion
But no man is himself when he’s under her spell
Well it might be love, but it’s so hard to tell

And she gets everything she wants laid at her feet
But nothing she needs

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
Don’t you know you can fly away
Well it don’t have to be this way
Don’t you know you can fly away
Fly away...

Why Not Me

Written By: Bob Malone & Bob DeMarco

Everything great that ever got done
Started as something that couldn’t be done
By someone who was told they couldn’t every day
Until they went and did it anyway
And everyone says that I’ll never get you
But they don’t know the situation like I do
I’ve been wearing you down a little every day
Now you’re coming ‘round and seeing things my way

But you keep me waiting
And you keep me hanging on
Yeah you keep me waiting
Ain’t nobody else gonna wait this long

Why not me?
I’m the one, baby can’t you see?
Why not me?
‘Cause you got to love somebody
Why not me?
The time’s as right as it’s ever gonna be…

Everything good that I ever did
Started as something I had to keep hid
‘Til I had nothing to lose and nowhere to go
Up against the wall is where you find your soul
And everything that I ever did for you
I did for love, the only reason to and
Even when I was the only one who believed
Believing in you was good enough for me

And you say you love me
But you’re too scared to let it go
But you can’t really love me
When your heart says you will, and your head says you won’t

CHORUS

No One Can Hurt You

Written By: Bob Malone

Who am I to make you cry again?
You exceed the wildest dreams of ordinary men
But I hate myself, and you pay the price
I turn the knife that’s meant for me on you
I never think twice

No one can hurt you
No one can hurt you
No one can hurt you
Like me…

I know how much you love me, and that’s dangerous
It turns me into someone I can never quite trust
And I can claim I don’t mean to say the things I do
But if I really didn’t mean them, would I have said those things to you?

CHORUS

Maybe I should just go away
Just because I love you don’t mean that I should stay
And it’s hard to admit, but it’s true
You’d be better off without me, but I’d be nothing without you

CHORUS

Home To Me

Written By: Bob Malone

Mom is in the next room
Watchin TV
Dad is sittin right there next to her
Like he has for years
I’m in the living room bangin’ on the old upright
Where my world began
Discovering the music like the child I was
Before I became the mess that I am

Well nothing much ever changes here
In my hometown
It ain’t even on the map, I like that
But I come here to get my feet on the ground
L.A.’s just a dream from here
And a bad one at that
The way I feel right now
I can’t imagine ever going back

And you can call my number
You can talk to my machine
If you don’t mind knowing it’ll stop your call
Three thousand miles short of me
And you can call my name
But where I’m from is where I’ll be
You can call it the middle of nowhere
But it’s just home to me...

I can hear the rain on the roof
It’s music in my ears
Pictures on the wall of how we used to look
Before we were buried by the years
This old house is here to remind me
When no perspective remains
That no matter how I change my life
Essentially I am still the same

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
And the love here is unconditional
And I have come here to hide out until
I can face what seems impossible to face...

Repeat 1st Verse

CHORUS

I Know He's Your Husband

Written By: Bob Malone

Well you sure looked surprised to see me leaning on the bar
When you came in the door
On the arm of that cat I seen you with
A couple of times before
And you looked a little nervous as you introduced me
As your "old friend from out of town"
And I reached out to shake his hand
'Cause I know he's your husband
But he don't know that I'm your man

Now I don't mean to make you so uneasy
On your romantic evening out
I guess I'll slip out the back before the dude starts wondering
What all your nervous laughter's about
'Cause all that itchin' and a twitchin's gonna blow your cover
And honey that ain't hard to understand
'Cause I know he's your husband
But he don't know that I'm your man

Now he's the one that keeps you comfortable
But I'm the one that makes you squirm
He's always there to keep you warm
But I'm the one you call when you need to burn...

You were relieved to see me leave but I do believe
I'll hear from you in a day or two
You'll say your husband's working late at the office
And could I come by and do some work on you?
And I guess he don't know that he's doing me a favor
When he's making all those business plans
'Cause I know he's your husband
But he don't know that I'm your man

Now he ain't got no nasty vices
And I got more than a few
But I think that he'd agree that out of all my bad habits
The worst one I've got is you...

Ain't What You Know

Written By: Bob Malone

Ain’t What You Know
By Bob Malone

Information is power everywhere you go
Especially the kind you ain’t supposed to know
A skeleton or two in the closet is fine
As long as it’s yours and not mine, mine, mine

CHORUS:
It ain’t what you know
It ain’t who you know
It’s what you know about who you know
If you wanna rule the world, baby, that’s the way it goes

I got secrets, I ain’t showin’ my hand
Try and find out about me if you can
One dog eats another, that’s how the world turns
And flamethrowers always are the first to get burned

CHORUS

I got insurance, it don’t cost me a thing
I can make the wrong kind of people make your telephone ring
But your secrets are safe as long as mine are too
You don’t wanna know what I know about you

CHORUS

Discography

Ain't What You Know
Born Too Late
Like It Or Not
Malone Alone
Bob Malone
The Darkest Part of the Night

Sample tracks and live video at www.bobmalone.com