Paladins – Keep On Lovin Me Baby

I hope you are all doing well on this Saturday! This will fill your rockabilly quota of the day. 

Here is some 1980’s roots rockabilly. What caught my attention is the relentless guitar on this track plus the groove. The guitar player is Dave Gonzalez and the tone reminds me of Stevie Ray Vaughn. This song was written by blues guitarist and songwriter Otis Rush. 

The Paladins are from San Diego and were into rockabilly. They billed their music as Western Bop. They played a combination of rockabilly and vintage country together with a blues groove. They were founded in 1980 by guitarist Dave Gonzalez and bass player Thomas Yearsley.

Dave Gonzalez’s initial influences came from his mother, who listened to  Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, and the Rolling Stones. He mixed this with his father’s love of country singers Buck Owens and Merle Haggard who also made a strong impression on him. As he got older he got into blues artists like  B.B. King, Muddy Waters, and Johnny Winter.

Put that all together and you come up with a varied roots style.

They did some tours with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Los Lobos, The Blasters, and the Fabulous Thunderbirds. This song was on the Let’s Buzz! album released in 1990. They were nominated for the  1990 Entertainer Music Awards but lost out to the Beat Farmers…but they won two years later.

Dave Gonzalez and bass player Thomas Yearsley along with drummer Brian Fahey are still a top attraction at clubs at the present time. They have recorded five singles, nine full-length studio records, and three live albums.

Keep On Lovin Me Baby

I want you to love me (repeat) woh yeah.
Oh baby i’m so glad youre mine…
I want you to kiss me…
Woh baby i’m so glad you’re mine…

Early every morning, sometimes late at night i can
Feel your tender lips they make me feel alright.

Keep on loving me baby…
Woh baby i’m so glad you’re mine…

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Author: Badfinger (Max)

Power Pop fan, Baseball, Beatles, Alternative music, old movies, and tv show fan. Also anything to do with pop culture in the 60s and 70s... I'm also a songwriter, bass and guitar player. Not the slightest bit interested in politics at all.

28 thoughts on “Paladins – Keep On Lovin Me Baby”

    1. You can thank CB for this one… the more I look ….it was an entire 1980s sub-culture of rockabilly bands…this one really rocks.

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  4. Never had heard of The Palladines but, yep, they sound mighty great! As I was reading the post and saw the references to Stevie Ray Vaughan and the artists you noted, by the time I reached the clip, I knew this was gonna be good! I imagine they would be a great live act to see at a smaller music club type venue!

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    1. I started to listen to more of their stuff this week…yea he is very agressive. I love trios anyway…I played in a few and you have to be on point….also a stand up bass looks like a lot of fun.

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  6. Now I’m really confused. Coincidentally I mentioned the Paladins to Randy…but I think it was an entirely different group. In the ’80s – I thought around ’85- the local indie record store put out an album by a rockabilly band of that name. I think it was on his own store label. I had it & thought it decent. I was pretty sure they were local, s.Ontario but given that no one else seems to know of them I wonder if it was the same guys & maybe just grabbed the Canadian rights and pressed a few copies. Either way, not bad for that style of music…probably great played live

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    1. These guys formed or knew each other in the late 70s… so it could have been them…I would think they were….but these guys are from California.

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      1. exactly. I think there were other bands around calling themselves the Paladins, but it would be a weird coincidence for two running simultaneously, one in Canada, one in Us, playing rockabilly. That said, I looked up these guys album covers and they don’t look familiar. Maybe just a big lawsuit in the making had either gotten really famous!

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      2. I know…the rockabilly part really is odd…I know that name from “Have Gun Must Travel” so that is where they probably got their name.
        LOL…well yea you very well could have seen another 80s rockabilly band in Canada.

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  8. Very SRV in that groove. On a tangent oddly enough I was channel surfing and stumbled onto an episode of ‘Have Gun Will Travel’ on our retro channel a few weeks ago. For the lead actor on a show aimed at young pre-teen buckaroos Richard Boone looked rather weather worn and old.

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    1. He did look old before he was old. I found that show around 10 years ago…I’ve watched most of them. It was something dark about that show that I liked.

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      1. Yeah, I know what you mean- back in those fresh faced peachy keen oh boy! days my face showed ‘nary a care- now I’d be classed as having the face of of a ‘character.’

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