The Bel Airs Music

To buy Bel Airs discs, visit our online store, buy CDs off the bandstand at any Bel Airs gig, or send $15 per disc (includes free shipping to U.S. addresses) to: 905 Red Oak Lane, Columbia MO 65203

Questions about Bel Airs merchandise or how to order? Call the Bel Airs at 573-499-3822.

MP3 and Video

"Southern Comfort" recorded live at Backwater Jack's in Osage Beach MO (mp3 737kb)

"Holler Woah Woah Woah" recorded live at the 18th Amendment in Omaha NE (mp3 2 Mb)

Download a FREE telephone ringtone from Off of My Line here. (Right click and choose "Save Link As" or point your phone's browser at this link.)

Listen to Bel Airs tracks on LastFM.

See the Bel Airs on The Set recorded at BB's Jazz Blues and Soup in St. Louis on Charter Cable Local Video on Demand. Choose "Channel 1" : "I want more" : "Charter Local" : "CCIN" : "The Set."

Seed a station with your favorite Bel Airs cuts at Pandora Internet Radio from the Music Genome Project.

Bel Airs on BB's Presents The Best of the Blues video now available at FrontRowMusic.TV:

How Come People Act Like That?
Momma Don't Care
Going To The River

BB's Presents The Best of the Blues also shows on PBS station KMOS TV based in Warrensburg, Missouri.

Bel Airs Discography

The Bel Airs have released four recordings. GOT LOVE was released on Hightone Records in 2005. HOODOO PARTY was released on the Blueberry Hill label in the spring of 1999. DANGEROUS CURVES was released on Borrowed Records in 1991. Their first recording NEED ME A CAR was released on vinyl by Blind Pig in 1984.

Got Love (2005)

GOT LOVE

GOT LOVE on Hightone Records is the Bel Airs' most recent CD. Dedicated to our friends who have gone on� Forrest Rose and Johnnie Johnson.

• Dick Pruitt-bass, vocals
• David Pruitt-guitars, mandolin,vocals
• Mike Cherry-drums
• Guest musicians:
• Joe Terry � piano, organ
• Jimmy Carpenter � saxophone
• Jim Martin � saxophone on #8

SONGLIST

1. I Got Love If You Want It
2. The Blues Is Walkin'
3. What Kind Of Fool (Do You Think I Am)
4. Just You And I
5. Wild About You Baby
6. Poor Man Rich Man
7. Going To The River
8. Those Lonely, Lonely Nights
9. Hi Line
10. How Are You Fixed For Love
11. Succotash

Hoodoo Party (1999)

HOODOO PARTY

HOODOO PARTY was released on the Blueberry Hill label in 1999. Blues Revue calls it "rollicking party blues".

• Dick Pruitt-bass and vocals
• David Pruitt-guitar and vocals
• Michael Cherry-drums and percussion
  Guest musicians:

  Johnnie Johnson--piano

  Joe Terry-piano

  Paco Shipp-saxophone

  Dennis Lansing-saxophone

  John Wolf-trombone

  Chris Bess-organ

  Marcus Steinmann-organ

SONGLIST

1. HooDoo Party
2. Strange things
3. Sugar Mama
4. Big City
5. I'm lost without you
6. Every Day I cry some
7. Good Lover
8. How come people act like that?
9. Who been foolin you?
10. Left me to roam
11. Take this hurt off me
12. House on fire

Dangerous Curves (1991)

DANGEROUS CURVES

DANGEROUS CURVES was released on Borrowed Records in 1991. Recorded in Springfield MO at Lou Whitney's Studio, it featured the Pruitt brothers and drummer Pat O'Connor, as well as guest musicians including pianist Johnny Johnson.

SONG LIST

1. Gonna Walk
2. Can't Give You Up
3. Hey, Little Lee
4. Spell On Me
5. Chinese Rock
6. Nothin' In This World
7. Stranger Blues
8. The Girl That Radiates That Charm
9. Off Of My Line
10. Girl On The TV News
11. Nadine
12. Hook My Pony

Need Me A Car (1984)

NEED ME A CAR

The Bel Airs' first recording NEED ME A CAR was released on vinyl by Blind Pig in 1984. It featured the original Bel Airs four-piece combo with Michael Henderson on harp, the Pruitt brothers on bass and guitar, and Pat O'Connor on drums.

SONG LIST

1. Pretty Thing
2. Need Me a Car
3. Uranium Rock
4. Thunder and Lightnin
5. Sunnyland
6. My Baby�s Sweeter
7. Rocket in her Soul
8. Hidden Charms
9. Too Hot to Handle
10. Good Good Lovin
11. Keep What You Got

SIDEMEN

The Bel Airs are also featured on many releases by other artists. To name a few:

BLUE HAND JOHNNIE (PUL 1002) on Pulsar Records showcases the rockin' 88s of Johnnie Johnson, longtime pianist for Chuck Berry.

NOTHIN, BUT... (P-104) and MAMA TRIED on Powerhouse Records from harmonica virtuoso Mark Wenner of the Washington D.C.-based Nighthawks.

SIDEMAN (BU 9601) on BellyUp Records from Jonny Viau, the widely regarded West Coast saxophonist.

NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE
NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE by Henry Clay, a mid-Missouri harp player and force-of-nature, features David on slide and National guitar, Dick and Forrest Rose splitting duties on bass and Michael on drums.