Bob Childers

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Bob Childers (2007)

Robert "Bob" Wayne Childers (born November 20, 1946 in West Union , West Virginia , † April 22, 2008 in Stillwater , Oklahoma ) was an American country and folk singer . He is considered the "Godfather" of the Red Dirt and has been compared several times in his career to the likes of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie .

biography

Childers was born in West Virginia , but moved to Oklahoma at an early age before living in various states and eventually returning to Oklahoma. In the late 1970s, he met singer Jimmy LaFave , who helped him record his first record, I Ain't No Jukebox . In the early 1980s he supported the anti-nuclear movement . He moved to Nashville in 1986 and later to Austin , Texas , where his friend LaFave had moved several years earlier. Childers went back to Oklahoma in 1991, where he experienced his career high phase, in which he released many albums himself and was involved in productions by other artists such as The Great Divide or Randy Crouch . In 2003 he was inducted into the Red Dirt Hall of Fame . The smoker suffered from lung disease from 2004 and died in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 2008 at the age of 61 . After his death, Red Dirt musicians such as Jimmy LaFave, Mike McClure , Stoney LaRue and Tom Skinner performed at a tribute concert in his honor.

Discography

  • 1979: I Ain't No Jukebox
  • 1982: Singing Trees, Dancing Waters
  • 1986: Four Horsemen
  • 1986: King David's Lament
  • 1990: Circles Toward the Sun
  • 1997: Nothin 'More Natural
  • 1999: Has a trick
  • 1999: Circles Toward the Sun
  • 1999: Has a trick
  • 2000: La Vita E Bella
  • 2003: Two Buffalos Walking
  • 2003: Live at the Blue Door
  • 2006: Kindred
  • 2006: Ride for the Cimarron

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aaron M. Moore: Playing in the Dirt: Stillwater and the Emergence of Red Dirt Music. Dissertation, Oklahoma State University 2010, p. 47.
  2. ^ A True Celebration of Stillwater Music. In: Stillwater Scene. November 2003, p. 4 (PDF, 2.2 MB) ( Memento from February 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Influential Oklahoma singer-songwriter dies. NewsOK.com , April 25, 2008.
  4. ↑ July 8 tribute to Bob Childers to kick off 11th annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. The Norman Transcript, June 27, 2008 ( August 13, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Childers, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Childers, Robert Wayne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American country and folk singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH West Union , West Virginia , USA
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2008
Place of death Stillwater , Oklahoma , USA