This wonderful Tulsa bar band had a deserved cult following. Oklahoma was home base for J.J. Cale, Elvin Bishop, Leon Russell; Eric Clapton recruited sidemen there, and covered 'Little Rachel' by Jimmy Byfield. An ex-Joe Cocker roadie, Peter Nicholls from the UK, was the engineer for Russell's label, started his own label and recorded local acts: a sampler The Green Album in 1978 included 'Little Rachel', others by Jim Byfield and His Band; then By The Light Of The Moon '81 was by Rockin' Jimmy and the Brothers of the Night: Byfield on vocals, Steve Hickerson on guitar, Chuck DeWalt on drums, Gary Gilmore on bass, Walt Richmond on keyboards, backing singers Jim Sweney and Debbie Campbell, electronic 'horns' on some tracks, subtle and appropriate. Gilmore had played with Cale, Taj Mahal; Richmond with Bonnie Raitt, Rick Danko, others; Campbell had been lead singer with L.A. group Buckwheat, and toured with Raitt.

Gilmore was replaced by Gary Cundiff on their second album Rockin' Jimmy And The Brothers Of The Night '82 (quintet only): it should have been called Rockin' All Night after the first track. All songs except a Ray Charles cover, 'Leave My Woman Alone' on the first LP, were written or co-written by Byfield, co-writers including Nicholls, on second LP Hickerson, Richmond, Cundiff. Distribution problems of all small labels prevailed; Byfield, a family man, did not want to tour widely; the band was soon history, but the LPs lived for a while on the Sonet label in the UK: good songs, Byfield's soulful tenor, rhythm section rooted in R&B (laid-back yet tense) made music with space, time, loneliness, roadhouse optimism in it. Fans treasured the LPs and felt a shock of recognition upon meeting one another.

Richmond was a member of The Tractors, a successful country band in the mid-1990s; Byfield, Richmond and others are still active as songwriters; they can be heard on the Youtube TV channel BRT TV. Rockin' Jimmy and the Brothers of the Night have been preserved in clips of live performances, also on Youtube. 
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