Lead Singer / Slide Guitarist Bob Pruitt worked with numerous bands out of the Kansas City area

playing Blues, Rhythm and Blues and good old Rock n Roll along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers from Minnesota to Texas and Colorado to Illinois. His band The Blues Demons used to play at the legendary Knuckleheads Saloon in Kansas City. Soon afterwards Bob became the blues jam host at Knuckleheads Saloon for 2 years. He has played shows with Willie Dixon, Big Walter Horton, Otis Spann, Vassar Clemons, Asleep at the Wheel, and John Lee Hooker.
As the house engineer at Coast Recorders in San Francisco, he engineered studio recordings for artists like Ray Brown, Herb Ellis, Scott Hamilton, and Tito Puente on the Concord Jazz label, as well as Chris Isaacs, Joe Satriani, and Edie Brickell. He has been the studio engineer or live sound mixer for hundreds of acts including Milt Jackson, REM, Albert Collins, Etta James, the Belairs, Albert King, John Lee Hooker, Beausoleil, and Clarence Gatemouth Brown.
The traditional swing music of Kansas City was an underlying influence onto which Bob added his love for the music of Robert Johnson, Johnny Winter, Little Feat and the R&B music of Muscle Shoals. Bob moved to San Diego in 2006 where he formed the Rhythm Jacks playing Rhythm and Blues for 7 years. He has worked as a slide guitarist with several of the area blues groups on gigs from LA to Mexico, and did 3 tours of England. In 2013 he formed Bobby and the Blue-Tones with his good friend Roger Daschle out of a desire to put more swing, blues, and vocal arrangements into his music.


Bassist Roger Daschle has been a fixture in the Southern California music scene for decades on both electric and acoustic standup bass.

His first musical influences were BB King, Johnny Guitar Watson and Jimmy Reed giving him a strong foothold in the blues. Visiting a friend in Slidell Louisiana near New Orleans opened up his eyes to Cajun and Louisiana culture and lifestyle and the music that came with it. That is where he fell in love with the music of Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Bozo Chavis and Clifton Chenier. Roger has provided solid bass work for the Kenny Schoppmeyer King Biscuit Blues band and the Deacons, the Bayou Brothers, the Screamin Primas, and the Rhythm Jacks. He has recently performed on four musical tours of the UK. Roger is a founding member and the bassist for Bobby and the Blue-Tones where he also sings fine leads and harmonies. He has collected of dozens of musical instruments and taught himself to play brass, reeds and keyboards. He has an extraordinary knowledge of electronics that includes vintage and modern audio equipment and physics research.




Violinist Floyd Fronius began studying classical violin at the age of 8,

playing in school orchestras and local youth symphonies. Since then he has explored many styles including jazz, blues, rock and traditional folk music. He loves collaborating on original music. Floyd has performed with many bands in San Diego and toured the western United States as well as Hawaii and the Caribbean. The bands include: Featherwood, Raggle Taggle, Heartspace, Gypsy Moon Trio, Fern Street Circus, Celticana, Gregory Page, Roy Ruiz Clayton, 3 Degrees Off Center, Dusty and the Love Notes, Dave Michaels, and more recently the Irish themed folk rock band Ass Pocket Whiskey Fellas. He has collaborated for many years with his wife, saxophonist Marcia Forman, playing jazz from the American songbook. After playing together with Bob for years as a duet, Floyd was an obvious choice for the Blue-Tones. His extraordinary violin work brings the Blue-Tones music to another dimension.




Hailing from Macon, Missouri, Blue-Tones drummer Rich Oberto played piano at an early age, switching to drums in High School.

His early influences were the sounds of Sam Cooke, James Brown, Booker T, Otis Redding, William Bell, and the Neville Brothers heard over the legendary KAAY radio out of Little Rock Arkansas. He played around Missouri in various bands through high school and college where he studied percussion, and jazz, landing a six-night a week gig in Jefferson City Missouri with a group called the Federal Duck. During his 3 years of service in the army Rich kept his chops up playing in a drum and bugle corps. Upon returning home he got right back into the music scene where he soon met Bob Pruitt and joined his group Heriford Drive, playing Rhythm & Blues gigs in seven states around the Missouri and Mississippi River region. Rich went on to play with groups touring from Missouri to Florida, and eventually returned to Missouri where he played again with Bob Pruitt, and worked as a session player on several recording projects. His good reputation as a jazz drummer led to gigs for several years with the Jim Widner jazz band, a run with Dick Crockett's group, and a lengthy gig at the Lake of the Ozarks with Lynn Zimmer playing New Orleans jazz. Two of his current favorite drummers are Harvey Mason and the late Levon Helm. His command of many musical styles keeps him in demand with area R&B, Jazz, and Rock groups. Rich was the drummer of choice when the Blue-Tones put together their All-Star R&B group for the 2019 UK tour. He's got the groove.