Bobby Black
Singer/Songwriter/Musician
BOBBY BLACK &
THE RUNNIN' KIND
We're Taking Our Country Back ! (one tune at a time)
This 5 piece band has the rich full sound that will gratify any country audience. Formed late in 2013 by Bobby Black, the band was meant to pay justice to the re-surging market of good old-fashioned old-school outlaw country. With their own unique touch on the classics as well as a handful of appealing originals, this band is sure to be a household name. Bobby Black (lead vocals/guitar), Billee Speelman (guitar/vocals), Larry Labeck (pedal steel) , Harold Crisman (bass), Vince Speelman (drums).
Od’d in Denver - Hank Williams Jr.
Fearless Heart - Steve Earle
Straight to Hell - Hank Williams 3
Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies - Waylong Jennings & Willie Nelson
Running Kind - Merle Haggard
The Fugitive - Merle Haggard
Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash / Hank Williams 3
Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen
Heard it in a Love Song - Marshall Tucker
Guitar Town - Steve Earle
Tiger By The Tail - Buck Owens
Streets of Bakersfield - Dwight Yoakum & Buck Owens
Pretty Little Lie - Original
Amarillo By Morning - George Strait
Pancho and Lefty - Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson
Falling and Flying - Jeff Bridges (from the movie Crazy Heart)
One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash
Good Hearted Woman - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
Cherokee Boogie - Johnny Horton
6 Days on the Road - Dave Dudley
45 and a Shovel - The Orbitsuns
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Delia’s Gone - Johnny Cash
Set Em Up joe - Vern Gosdin
Luckenbach Texas - Waylon and Willie
Spanish Eyes - Willie Nelson
Angel Flying Too Close - Willie Nelson
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights - Freddy Fender
Don’t Close Your Eyes - Keith Whitley
I Don’t Know - Hank Williams III
Made in Japan - Buck Owens
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
Jack Daniels If You Please - David Allen Coe
Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes - George Jones
Still Doin’ Time - George Jones
Let It Bleed / Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones
I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive - Hank Williams Sr.
Silde Off of Your Satin Sheets - Johnny Paycheck
Octopus Garden - Beatles
Wild Horses - Bobby’s arrangement
Christine’s Tune - Flying Burrito Bros.
Gubmint Cheese - Original
Woe is Me - Original
I can Feel a Good One Comin’ on - Blackberry Smoke
Walk Hard - Dewey Cox (from the movie Walk Hard)
Sample Set List
Bobby Black & The Runnin' Kind performing at Hart Plaza in Detroit , MI. on The Soaring Eagle Stage at Riverdays
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It's Showtime!
June 08, 2014 Jamboozies Sterling Heights, MI
June 22, 2014 Riverdays Hart Plaza Detroit, MI
June 28, 2014 Shelly Kelly's Fraser, MI
October 24, 2014 Freddy's Clinton Twp., MI
Pretty Little Lie
I Won't Look Back
Outlaw country is a subgenre of country music, most popular during the late 1950s thru 1970s (and even into the 1980s in some cases), sometimes referred to as the outlaw movement or simply outlaw music. The focus of the movement has been on "outlaws", such as Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, David Allan Coe , Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Leon Russell, Hank Williams Jr., Steve Earle, and more.
Bobby Black and the Runnin' Kind, while hailing from Detroit, seeks to perform, promote and propogate this style of music through their live performances and recordings of both original songs as well as an eclectic group of covers.
The band is the brainchild and partnership of Bobby Black and Billee Speelman. The two met about a year ago in 2013 and it was country kismet from the beginning. They knew one day an outlaw country band was inevitable. That day finally came and the Runnin' Kind became a reality. The addition of Harold Crisman on bass and Vince Speelman on drums rounded out the combo. Both additions are multi-instrumentalists who sing, write and add a youthful vibrance to the project. The band is often joined onstage by any of a multitude of professional local and national musicians.