With this album Nola Blue Records wants to pay homage to the late singer Frank Bey, one of the most charismatic blues and soul voices of all times.

Born in Millen, Georgia, Frank started singing gospel at the church choir with his brother and two cousins. Aged seventeen, he joined The Otis Redding Revue. In the early 70’s he founded his own funk group The Moorish Vanguard but, due to strong disagreements with James Brown, he was left aside by his friends and his career faded, which made him leave music aside for 17 years, settling in Philadelphia where he finally ran a club called Smith’s. There he met keyboard player Jeff Monjack who encouraged him to come back to the music business and form his own band.

From that moment on, success began to smile at him. His album “All My Dues Are Paid” was nominated for a Grammy and he was also nominated seven times for the Blues Music Awards.

The recording includes eleven of his best songs, like the one that opens it “That’s What Love Will Make You Do” by Little Milton, Frank recorded with The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra, but there is also a version of the well-known “Imagine” coming from John Lennon. The remaining nine songs belong to the wide repertoire Frank performed during the last twenty-five years with his good colleagues and friends Jeff Monack, the late Kevin Frieson and the rest of the band members.

For Jeff Monack, playing with Frank was a privilege because his singing came from his ancestors and connected with the soul of everybody who listened to him. It was pure music, displayed with the spiritual peace that made him connect with the deepest part of human beings and music, and the album really confirms it.

The recording was precisely released on his birthday very same day, January 27th, and becomes a magnificent tribute to this “blues gentleman”.