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THE NEW ALBUM COMES OUT TOMORROW

HERE IS A NEW SONG FROM THE ALBUM–

08 THE SKY IS THE GROUND by BOBBY BARE JR.

“SAD SMILE”-A NEW SONG FROM THE NEW ALBUM-

THIS IS THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THE NEW ALBUM-

“A STORM – A TREE – MY MOTHER’S HEAD” due out aug 31st

02 SAD SMILE by BOBBY BARE JR.

live show tomorrow night on WSM

BOBBY will be on WSM’s MUSIC CITY ROOTS live radio broadcast at 8:30pm tomorrow night (aug 4) – hear it online at WSMONLINE.COM

ROCK AND ROLL HALLOWEEN

BBJ IS GONNA BE ON TOUR WITH THE DRIVE BY TRUCKERS HALLOWEEN WEEKEND


10/28 boone nc – LEGENDS AT APPALACHIAN STATE

10/29 & 10/30 richmond va – THE NATIONAL

10/31 HALLOWEEN NIGHT-charlotte nc -THE FILLMORE CHARLOTTE

UNNAMED DOCUMENTARY

a BBJ documentary is being filmed over the next 4 months by director William Miller - check out the first little snippit

Bobby Bare Jr. Documentary Track 1: Meet Bobby Bare Jr. from HHCreative on Vimeo.

2 NEW SONGS

go to the BOBBY BARE JR’S YOUNG CRIMINALS STARVATION LEAGUE facebook page to hear 2 unreleased songs

BOBBY ON NPR’S “all things considered”

Bobby is on NPR’s “ALL THINGS CONSIDERED” today talking about “TWISTABLE TURNABLE MAN”- you can listen online starting at 7pm or hear it now on your local npr station.

FALL TOUR ANNOUNCED

THE CARPOOL AMERICA TOUR

with BLUE GIANT AND BOBBY BARE JR.

8/4: Nashville, TN @ Music City Roots at Loveless Cafe

8/6: Nashville, TN @ The 5 Spot w’ABIGAIL WAHSBURN  and KAI WELCH

8/12: Johnson City, TN @ Casbah

8/13: Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall

8/24: Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone - with BLUE GIANT
8/25: Oklahoma City, OK @ VZD’s - with BLUE GIANT
8/26: Austin, TX @ Continental Club - with BLUE GIANT
8/27: San Antonio, TX @ Casbeers - with BLUE GIANT

8/28: Marfa, tx @ Padres - with BLUE GIANT
8/30: Tucson, AZ @ Hotel Congress Patio -
8/31: Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo- with BLUE GIANT
9/1: San Francisco, CA @ Cafe du Nord- with BLUE GIANT
9/2: Reno, NV @ The Underground- with BLUE GIANT
9/4: Eugene, OR @ Sam Bonds Garage- with BLUE GIANT

MON – SEPT 6 – BUMBERSHOOT – SEATTLE , WA

9/6: Vancouver, BC Canada @ The Biltmore with Justin Townes Earle
9/7: Bellingham, WA @ Wild Buffalo with Justin Townes Earle


9/10: Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom with Okkervil River
9/13: Missoula, MT @ The Palace - with BLUE GIANT
9/15: Denver, CO @ Hi Dive - with BLUE GIANT
9/16: Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar - with BLUE GIANT
9/17: St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway - with BLUE GIANT

9/21: Atlanta, GA @ The Earl - with BLUE GIANT

9/22: Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 - with BLUE GIANT

9/23: Arlington, VA @ IOTA - with BLUE GIANT

9/24: Philadelphia, PA @ North Star Bar -

9/25: Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwells -

9/27: New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge - with BLUE GIANT

9/28: Cambridge, MA @ Middle East - with BLUE GIANT

9/30: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom - with BLUE GIANT

10/01: Maumee, OH @ Village Idiot - with BLUE GIANT

10/02: lexington, ky at COSMIC CHARLIES

10/05 -pontiac mi -THE CROWFOOT - with BLUE GIANT

10/06-10/07 – chicago il – SCHUBAS - with BLUE GIANT

10/09 – minneapolis mn – 400 BAR - with BLUE GIANT

CLICK HERE to check out this website for a Documentary about Bobby Bare Jr. currently in the works.

Check back often for updates and videos.

THE NEW BOBBY BARE JR. RECORD “A STORM – A TREE – MY MOTHER’S HEAD” DUE OUT AUG 31st-2010

photo by joshua black wilkens

It was the last day of January 2008- I was in Seattle and my dad was somewhere in Florida- and my mom sat alone during a thunderstorm on a couch in the house our family bought in 1970 in Hendersonville, TN just outside of Nashville. It is a long white ranch house that sits on a tall hill directly above Old Hickory Lake, surrounded by tall 100 year-old Beech trees.  Well the storm outside that night pushed one of those old hollow trees further than it could bend and the broken tree split the house in half, beneath that tree was the roof, 2×4s, insulation, and my frightened mother screaming while trying to figure out if she was dead or alive, crippled or broken. The tree had broken two vertebra in her neck and she was the only one who could call 911- so from her rainy den she did – and within a year she and the house recovered. She is lucky to be alive and being a good, loving, Nashville songwriting son that I am, I got a good song out of her tragedy- as well as a title to my next record.
It has been almost four years since my last release. Since 2006’s The Longest Meow I have brought my 2nd child into the world (Beckham Bare) – experienced divorce – lost my house (divorce)- almost lost my mom – almost lost my son (listen to “The Sky Is The Ground”) – produced my largest musical project (Twistable, Turnable Man: A Musical Tribute to the Songs Shel Silverstein) – got my house back – got a new girlfriend – and got a new baby on the way! I have also finished my 6th full-length CD, A Storm – A Tree - My Mother’s Head, 13 songs that took me four years to write and record.
Last winter with my good friend/engineer/co-writer/producer David Vandervelde, and four of my favorite friends/musicians, we began to organize, edit, write, and arrange my latest pile of riffs, chords, and poems into something that could resemble my next record. By the end of February of this year we felt good enough about the songs to take them into this huge log cabin in Nashville and see about recording them all in two days. After much rehearsal almost all of what you hear on A Storm – A Tree – My Mother’s Head was recorded Feb. 28th and March 1st.  I figured after doing my last record in one day – that if I spent two days on this record it’s gonna sound twice as good- right? – maybe. I don’t know- I only know that I included Opie Taylor – Liz Taylor  - Darth Vader- murder – cheese burgers-lies – cheating – Jesus – guns  - lipstick (not red lipstick though)- Elvis (2 times) – drunks – muscles –  fish – Chattanooga – naked swimming at night – wet goats – flaming arrows – blood – bicycles – metal stitches – Jesus Lizard t-shirts – angry bugs – Kosher Oreos – The Dixie Chicks - Necrophilia - and my Mother’s head (you can even hear her screaming on the song).

below is the bbj studio band

THE BBJ STUDIO BAND

photo by avon lyons

above is a video of the creation of a song called “YOUR GOAT IS ON FIRE”

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and feel free to send this to your dad for FATHER’S DAY

Bobby Bare Jr. with Beckham Bare – “Daddy What If” from Jon Grimson on Vimeo.