Shel Silverstein’s reputation rests on his children’s books, but he also had a long, illustrious songwriting career in Nashville. No one performed his ribald, irreverent songs more than the ...

Alisha Sweeney and Bobby Bare Jr. Bobby Bare Jr. joined Guided By Voices last year as a touring guitarist. The Nashville musician and son of country singer Bobby Bare has released five solo albums and ...

Bobby Bare and author/songwriter Shel Silverstein were great friends, as well as mutual admirers of each other's work. Now Bobby is producing a tribute to his late friend titled 'Turnable, Twistable ...

They were the unlikeliest of collaborators. Bobby Bare was a country star raised on the north bank of the Ohio River. Shel Silverstein was a hipster raised in a Jewish neighborhood in Chicago. Bare ...

When the fourth annual Outlaw Country Cruise docked in Nassau in the Bahamas on Wednesday morning, it picked up a new passenger: Country Music Hall of Fame member Bobby Bare. The 83-year-old singer, ...

Although he’s usually identified with country classics like “Detroit City” and “The Streets of Baltimore,” Bobby Bare explores the genre’s themes without sounding exactly like a country singer — the ...

Country legend Bobby Bare is an artist well-regarded for his songwriting, but he also knows the value of recording songs from other sources, having scored a Top Ten hit in 1963 with the Mel ...

Bobby Bare, Jr., recently stopped by NPR Music's office with keyboardist Matt Rowland to perform a Tiny Desk Concert. Apparently, Bare got the gig in a fairly unconventional way, approaching host Bob ...