Bobby Bare is a lot of fun, great songwriter. He also recorded a lot of Shel Silverstein tunes. "Drop kick Me, Jesus", "The Winner", "Marie Laveau" just to name a few.

Bobby Bare is a lot of fun, great songwriter. He also recorded a lot of Shel Silverstein tunes. "Drop kick Me, Jesus", "The Winner", "Marie Laveau" just to name a few.

IP, you're in for a treat once you start down this road 😉

lots of good stuff, and many artists intertwined: Billy Joe Shaver, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon, Rodney Crowell. Helluva party... and some sangin, and drankin, oh man!

And don't forget his son Bobby Bare, Jr. Check out his 1998 album Boo-tay for some lightening hot rockers. The hidden track is a break up message, left by a former girlfriend, giving him the business about lying to her, and says "Don't call me, don't write me a letter, Don't write me a song...." then on comes her song, and the whole album it seems - haha) He can bring it in concert.

I've interviewed Bobby Bare twice and enjoyed every minute of it. he is a piece of work, to put it mildly. Here is a story about George Jones that Bobby told me, but he asked me not to tell it while George was alive. I interviewed George about a year before his death, but I damn sure wasn't going to bring it up either.

“I was recording once at the Sound Shop studios in downtown Nashville, and it was right next door to the Hall of Fame Motor Inn and it had a bar in it,” remembers Bare. “I had finished recording and me and Shel Silverstein, my wife and John Hartford and his wife Marie, they had been in the studio while I was cutting a record. I finished recording and we walked over to where the car was parked in a lot over by the Country Music Hall of Fame. We were walking out of there and here comes Jones walking out of the bar and he was real drunk. And George and Tammy (Wynette) used to live right next door to me when they were married. Well, George came out of that bar and the only way he would talk was like Daffy Duck, and he wouldn’t break away from it. He came out of the bar and saw me and made a beeline at me and Shel and John. He came over and started talking that Daffy Duck and he spooked the heck out of John. John ran. I mean, he took off and the next thing I knew, I was standing there by myself talking with George ‘Daffy Duck’ Jones."

On the flip side of the coin, however, I interviewed Billy Joe Shaver years ago and Billy told a good one on ole Bobby;

"After he hired me, he gave me 50 bucks a week, and let me live in his office (Bobby's publishing company). A little old bitty cubby hole. I got me a number three washtub, and I worked out of there for about a year or so. The thing is, that very day he said, 'Billy, you have got to give me a ride home.' I had an old pickup truck and it was snowing, ice all over the ground, but we had to go over to the clubhouse first, someplace where they only let songwriters and stuff in. So, he got me in there and we got in there and he got to drinkin' more and more. I mean, he got drunk. Then he managed to get somebody to call his house, talkin' to Jeannie Bare, whom I'd never met or knew none of his folks, and she is trying to tell me how to get him out to the house. I finally got him shoveled into the pickup and I had the directions and all, and I said, 'Shit, what have I got myself into?' He lived in a house that was up on a hill and there was ice all over the hill. I took a run at it and I got up in the driveway there and I finally got my truck stopped, you know, where it wouldn't slide. Jeannie come running out and we got him out of the truck and boy, he was heavy, too. But he slipped out of our hands and he went sliding down the driveway and he took a turn and there was a ditch down there that had ice in it and it had a dip to it. He hit that dip and he kept kind of going up and down, up and down, till the cat died, you know? Out like a light, he didn't even know what happened. And then we drug him all the way back up to the house, drug him in the house, finally got him throwed over the bed. I, of course, apologized to her, and she apologized to me. And so, that's how we got started."

In the early '80's Bobby Bare had a songwriters talk show on CMT when it first started. It was a great show and Bobby would sing with the guests. Roseann Cash was a guest once. The show didn't last long. Too bad. Bobby Bare is one of my favorites and I love Miller's Cave and Detroit City.

I really love seeing Bobby Bare Jr. He plays in Chicago all of the time, and I've seen him a number of times over the last few years.

Dad's mini concert from '78 (with Tracy Nelson of Mother Earth on background vocals) is nice too:

In the early '80's Bobby Bare had a songwriters talk show on CMT when it first started. It was a great show and Bobby would sing with the guests. Roseann Cash was a guest once. The show didn't last long. Too bad. Bobby Bare is one of my favorites and I love Miller's Cave and Detroit City.

Ruth,

I remember watching a show Booby hosted back then. I'm assuming that the attached clips are from that show Bobby hosted??? It was a good show with Bobby talking music with guest artists, and then the artists performing songs. One of my favorite shows which I saw live back in the '80's was with Toy Caldwell & Jimmy Hall as guests. Here are some great clips from that show.