.@mrBobbyBare's 8-CD Bear Family release "Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus” is one of 2020's best boxed sets -- "a proper throwback to a time when songwriting literacy and pure shit-kicking were not such strange bedfellows." https://t.co/pePiLyOTR5 via @variety
it won’t be long before you’re doing this with us.” Wasn’t very long after that he got a record deal in Nashville. And the rest is history. He paved paths and he truly loved country music. I’ll miss my friend.
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Charley Pride is one of my oldest friends - we met before he got his first record deal. He had demoed “The Snakes Crawl at Night” which I heard and cut - then he had his first hit with it. Before that, I was booked up in Montana and he was living up there and I called when I...
got to town. Rozene said “Pride can’t come because they wouldn���t let him off of work” and gave me his work number. I still remember the sound of the machinery when he answered and said “Bare I wanted to come so bad, but they just wouldn’t let me off.” I said, “don’t worry Pride..
In 1963 I released “500 Miles Away from Home”, written by Hedy West. It would go on to be one of the most successful songs of my career. https://t.co/wBW0vZxP6K
In 1963, I released my album, Detroit City and Other Hits. I released “Detroit City” as the second single from that album. It climbed to #6 on on the Country Charts and earned me a Grammy Award for Best Country &… https://t.co/oI76JzkAk3
Listen to my son @BOBBYBAREJR sing my song, “Daddy What If” with his daughter Isabella! My son sang it with me when he was a boy, and it’s cool to see him singing it with his little girl. My granddaughter. https://t.co/Zt1A9Dm2je