{"id":84,"date":"2012-11-21T03:05:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T03:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wordpress3\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2021-10-08T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T16:25:35","slug":"bobby-bare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/about\/our-artists\/bobby-bare\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Bare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3349\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/plowboy-artists-bobby-bare-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"plowboy-artists-bobby-bare\" srcset=\"http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/plowboy-artists-bobby-bare-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/plowboy-artists-bobby-bare-480x240.jpg 480w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/plowboy-artists-bobby-bare-580x290.jpg 580w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/plowboy-artists-bobby-bare-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/plowboy-artists-bobby-bare.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nToday the Country Music Association announced Bobby Bare as a 2013 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame, in the Veterans Artist category. Read the official announcement here: <a href=\"http:\/\/reut.rs\/14Xrydi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/reut.rs\/14Xrydi<\/a> Bobby Bare has logged 30 Top 20 singles over the course of his 50-year career, won a GRAMMY Award and has multiple GRAMMY nominations. He released his first album in 7 years, the lauded &#8216;Darker Than Light,&#8217; on Nashville&#8217;s Plowboy Records last fall and has since made high profile appearances at the Grand Ole Opry and SXSW. Bare recorded &#8216;Darker Than Light&#8217; at RCA Studio B, the same studio he used to cut his first album, in 1962.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F77313463%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-wBXWg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vvd9u23w4Xo<\/div>\n<p>The Bobby Bare release, Darker Than Light, is now out on the Plowboy Records label. Produced by Plowboy co-founder Don Cusic and recorded at Nashville&#8217;s historic RCA Studio B.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8216;Darker Than Light&#8217; was produced by Plowboy Records co-founder Don Cusic and tracked at famed RCA Studio B in Nashville, with a band that includes Buddy Miller and Randy Scruggs on guitar, Byron House on bass, Marco Giovino on drums and other members of Robert Plant&#8217;s Band Of Joy. The album is Bare&#8217;s first release in seven years, and features his inspired interpretations of songs by Bob Dylan, Alejandro Escovedo (who also makes a guest appearance), Lead Belly and others, plus new originals.<\/p>\n<p>Bare&#8217;s deep, unvarnished voice and his first-rate band&#8217;s colorful string work guide &#8216;Darker Than Light&#8217; from the moody &#8220;Boll Weevil&#8221; to the foot-stomping Woody Guthrie cover &#8220;Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (I Ain&#8217;t Going To Be Treated This Way )&#8221; and heart-breaker ballads &#8220;Dark As A Dungeon,&#8221; a Merle Travis song, and &#8220;Shenandoah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Darker Than Light&#8217; also includes a cover of U2&#8217;s &#8220;I Still Haven&#8217;t Found What I&#8217;m Looking For,&#8221; and &#8220;The Devil &amp; Billy Markham,&#8221; which puts music to the words of a Shel Silverstein poem originally published in 1979. Also, 27-time GRAMMY winner Vince Gill makes a guest appearance on vocals during original number, &#8220;I Was A Young Man Once&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plowboy Records was launched earlier this year by punk legend and former member of the Dead Boys Cheetah Chrome, country music expert\/author and professor Don Cusic, and Eddy Arnold&#8217;s grandson and businessman\/musician Shannon Pollard. The label was created to further the legacy of the original Tennessee Plowboy, the late Country singing legend Eddy Arnold, and provide a home for recordings that focus on American music, regardless of genre.<\/p>\n<p>Cheetah will also be portrayed by Rupert Grint in an upcoming film about famed NYC venue, CBGBs.<\/p>\n<p>Now 77 and sounding better than ever, Bobby Bare has earned over 30 Top 20 hits, a Grammy award, and multiple Grammy nominations in a career that spans over 50 years. He will tour in support of &#8216;Darker Than Light&#8217; with dates to be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2117 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bobby-Bare-Darker-Than-Light-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bobby Bare - Darker Than Light\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bobby-Bare-Darker-Than-Light-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bobby-Bare-Darker-Than-Light-480x480.jpg 480w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bobby-Bare-Darker-Than-Light-120x120.jpg 120w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bobby-Bare-Darker-Than-Light-580x580.jpg 580w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bobby-Bare-Darker-Than-Light-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bobby-Bare-Darker-Than-Light-200x200.jpg 200w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bobby-Bare-Darker-Than-Light-205x205.jpg 205w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bobby-Bare-Darker-Than-Light-225x225.jpg 225w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bobby-Bare-Darker-Than-Light-250x250.jpg 250w, http:\/\/plowboyrecords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bobby-Bare-Darker-Than-Light.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Track list here:<br \/>\n1. Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (I Ain&#8217;t Going To Be Treated This Way)<br \/>\n2. John Hardy<br \/>\n3. Boll Weevil<br \/>\n4. Farewell Angelina<br \/>\n5. House of the Rising Sun<br \/>\n6. Lookout Mountain<br \/>\n7. I Was Drunk<br \/>\n8. Still Haven&#8217;t Found What I&#8217;m Looking For<br \/>\n9. Dark as a Dungeon<br \/>\n10. I Was a Young Man Once<br \/>\n11. Banks of the Ohio<br \/>\n12. Shenandoah<br \/>\n13. Woody<br \/>\n14. Tennessee Stud<br \/>\n15. Tom Dooley<br \/>\n16. 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