Bobby Bare Jr.
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Robert Joseph Bare Jr. (born June 28, 1966 in Nashville , Tennessee ) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
Life
Bare was in Tennessee Nashville, the son of singer Jeannie Bare (born sterling) and the Country musician Bobby Bare, Sr. was born. His parents met in 1963 when his father hired his mother to sing. He spent his childhood in Hendersonville, Tennessee , half an hour northeast of Nashville. The family's neighbors included Tammy Wynette and George Jones . Bare has two younger siblings. His older sister died at 15 from complications from medical treatment.
In 1974, when he was only 8 years old, Bobby Bare and his father were nominated for a Grammy for the song Daddy What If , written by Shel Silverstein . His daughter Isabella also sang a version of this song that was released on Twistable Turnable Man , a tribute album for Shel Silverstein. The album was jointly published by Bare and his father. He appeared with his siblings as a child on the television show Hee Haw to intone the witch's scream interlude in Bobby Bare, Sr. 's song Marie Laveaux .
Bobby Bare Jr. began his music career as a guitarist and songwriter. However, he only started his career as a professional musician at the age of thirty. He once characterized his attitude as someone who wanted to avoid “working in a real job at all costs”. For a while he made his living as a roadie and lighting technician. Regardless of this, smaller labels such as Immortal Records and Lost Highway offered him contracts at the beginning of his musician career .
Bobby Bare Jr. holds a degree in psychology from the University of Tennessee . He has three children - two sons and a daughter.
Musical stations
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In the 1990s he formed the roots rock group Bare, Jr. , which was under contract with Immortal Records. He released two albums, Boo-Tay in 1998 and Brainwasher in 2000 .
Young Criminals Starvation League
He has released three studio albums, an EP and a live album with Young Criminals Starvation League , a band with constantly changing musicians (including members of Lambchop , ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead , and My Morning Jacket ).
Solo work
His CD A Storm, A Tree, My Mother's Head was released in 2010 on his own label, 30 Tigers / Naked Albino Recordings . The title alludes to a 2008 storm in Nashville in which his mother was injured.
“Mom was sitting on the couch, the last day of January in 2008, and there was a big, windy storm outside. And a big branch broke off halfway up the tree. It fell on the house, and literally split the house in two and landed exactly on top of her. "
“Mom was sitting on the sofa on the last day of January 2008 and there was a strong, windy storm outside. A large branch broke off halfway up the tree. He fell on the house, literally split it in two and landed right on her. "
Another song on the record, The Sky Is The Ground , is about his son's bicycle accident when he was two years old.
The EP Shame on Me was released in 2014 on Big Legal Mess / Fat Possum Records . In spring 2014 his album Undefeated was released on Bloodshot Records . The album's first single, The Big Time , was pre-released in April of that year. Bare recorded the album with Mark Nevers ( Lambchop ) and Grammy- winning engineer Vance Powell ( Jack White , Alicia Keys , the Dixie Chicks , Buddy Guy ). Bare appeared in June 2014 in the opening act for Robert Pollard's band, Guided by Voices . From February 2016 he became guitarist of Guided By Voices, together with Nick Mitchell, also guitar, Mark Shue on bass and Kevin March as drummer.
Bare performs regularly at house concerts, often accompanied by Carey Kotsionis as a singer.
Music style and influences
His songs are said to have humor as well as the use of many pop cultural references. In addition, many critics characterize his songs as "original and melodic". A huge influence on his approach to songwriting was Shel Silverstein . In particular, this was the technique of first creating the texts in the form of poems and then transforming them into songs - an approach that is very similar to Silverstein's approach.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | album |
|---|---|
| 1998 | Boo-tay (As Bare Jr. ) |
| 2000 | Brainwasher (As Bare Jr. ) |
| 2002 | Young Criminals' Starvation League |
| 2004 | From the end of your leash |
| 2006 | Live: Nick Nacks & Paddy Whacks |
| The Longest Meow | |
| 2010 | A Storm, A Tree, My Mother's Head |
| 2014 | Undefeated |
EPs and singles
| year | album |
|---|---|
| 1974 | Daddy, What If with his father Bobby Bare, Sr. |
| 2003 | OK - I'm Sorry ... (EP) |
| 2009 | American Bread (EP) |
| 2010 | A Storm, A Tree, My Mother's Head (EP) 5 acoustic demos of the album |
| 2011 | UNRELEASED and FREE (EP) |
| 2014 | Shame on Me (7 "vinyl / download) (limited to 1,000) |
Single charts
| year | single | Highest chart position | album | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | US alt. | CAN Country | CAN | CAN AC | |||
| 1973 | Daddy What If (with Bobby Bare ) | 2 | 41 | - | 5 | 53 | 19th | Lullabys, Legends and Lies (Bobby Bare Album) |
| 1974 | Where'd I Come From (with Jeannie Bare) | 41 | - | - | - | - | - | only as a single |
| 1999 | You blew me off | - | - | 40 | - | - | - | Boo-tay (Bare Jr. Album) |
Other publications
- 2000: Down to the Promised Land (Compilation) ( Bloodshot Records ) - Guitar Playing Woman by Bare Jr.
- 2004: Sings Greatest Palace Music by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy ( Drag City ) - vocals with Riding
- 2005: Tanglewood Numbers by Silver Jews ( Drag City ) - vocals with I'm Getting Back into Getting Back into You
- 2005: The Moon Was Blue by Bobby Bare (Dualtone) - produced by Bare Jr.
- 2005: For a Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records (Compilation) ( Bloodshot Records ) - Ocean Size by Bobby Bare Jr.
- 2006: Bloodied But Unbowed: The Soundtrack ( Bloodshot Records ) - Flat Chested Girl From Maynardville by Bobby Bare Jr. (live)
- 2006: Bloodied But Unbowed: Bloodshot Records' Life In The Trenches (DVD) ( Bloodshot Records ) - Videos from Let's Rock and Roll and Flat Chested Girl From Maynardville .
- 2010: Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein (Sugar Hill) - edited by Bare Jr. and his father, Bare Sr.
documentation
In 2010 a documentary called Don't Follow Me (I'm Lost): A Film About Bobby Bare, Jr. was released that documents Bares work as a touring musician. William Miller, the director of the documentary, and Lee Baker, its producer, accompanied him for 4 months on his tour to launch the album A Storm - A Tree - My Mother's Head . Musicians who appear in this film include My Morning Jacket , Justin Townes Earle , Hayes Carll, David Vandervelde, Blue Giant, Duane Denison and Bobby Bare Sr. The documentary was recorded on different formats: Super 16mm , 16mm, Super 8 , and HD and premiered at the CBGB Film Festival in October 2013.
See also
Web links
- Official website
- Bobby Bare Jr. at laut.de.
- Bobby Bare, Jr. at Bloodshot Records
- Bobby Bare, Jr. at the Free Music Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bobby Bare Jr. . In: Discogs . Retrieved October 4, 2013: "Real name: Robert Joseph Bare Jr."
- ↑ Ben Ratliff: A Country Singer Returns to What Made Him a Star . In: New York Times , October 25, 2005. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
- ↑ To Hold His C&W Audience, Bobby Bare Is Usually 500 Miles Away from Home — or More ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Original on people.com
- ↑ Elizabeth Pandolfi: Bobby Bare Jr. carries on Shel Silverstein's legacy: Bare in there . In: Charleston City Paper , April 24, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
- ↑ Bobby Bare Jr. & Isabella Bare - Daddy, What If . YouTube. June 24, 2010.
- ↑ Mike Boehm: In the Cave of the Clan Bare: Raucous Bobby Jr. and Smooth Bobby Sr. Work in Different Worlds but Enjoy a Closeness . In: LA Times , November 11, 1998. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
- ↑ Jeri Kopet: Grin and Bare It . In: Anchorage Press , September 12, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
- ↑ Nancy Dunham: Bobby Bare Jr. Finds Humor in Unlikely Places Read More: Bobby Bare Jr. Finds Humor in Unlikely Places . In: The Boot . September 2, 2010. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
- ↑ Interview: Bobby Bare Jr. ( Memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Original on emusic.com
- ↑ Chris Riemenschneider: Bobby Bare Jr. bares all . In: Star Tribune , February 7, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
- ^ John Fortunato: Bare Jr.'s 'Brainwasher' Turn Heads . In: beermelodies: For Beer Geeks And Rock Freaks . Retrieved July 17, 2017.
- ↑ Bobby Bare Jr .: A Nashville Heir Charts His Own Path . In: WNYC Soundcheck . January 6, 2014. Archived from the original on January 11, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
- ^ Southern Sounds - First Listen: Bobby Bare Jr. ( Memento from August 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Original in Garden & Gun
- ↑ Eric R. Danton: Bobby Bare Jr. Sorts Through 'Scary Stuff' on 'Undefeated' (album premiere) . In: Wall Street Journal , April 8, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
- ↑ Tweet of the Week: Bobby Bare Jr. Joins Rebooted Guided by Voices . In: Nashville Scene , February 9, 2016.
- ↑ Guided By Voices Are Back in Action: Pollard playing every instrument on new LP, but there's a new live lineup . In: Pitchfork Media , July 17, 2017. Accessed February 26, 2016.
- ↑ Bobby Bare Jr. - House Concerts . In: BobbyBareJr.com .
- ↑ Dave Feldman: Live in JC: Bobby Bare Jr. Gets Intimate at Jersey City Apartment Show . In: Jersey City Independent , January 20, 2011. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
- ↑ A Soul Bared: Bobby Bare Jr. is at the End of His Leash ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Original on thirdcoastpress.com
- ↑ Meredith Ochs: Bobby Bare Jr.'s Music Falls Far from the Tree . In: NPR Music - All Things Considered . NPR. November 20, 2006 .: "... Bare's music manages to be both inventive and melodic, from his unpredictable arrangements to the deliberate phrasing that defines his singing style."
- ↑ Bare Jr. - Chart history | Billboard Alternative ( English ) Accessed 29 April 2017.
- ↑ Bobby Bare Jr., Don't Follow Me (I'm Lost), Interview - Don't Follow Me (I'm Lost): The Dynamic of Bobby Bare Jr. ( Memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Don't Follow Me (I'm Lost) Film blog ( Memento from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bare, Bobby Jr. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bare, Robert Joseph Jr. (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American singer and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nashville , Tennessee, USA |