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Bobby Bare: Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set)

8-CD Box-Set (LP-size) with 128-page hardcover book, 137 tracks. Total playing time approx. 8 hrs (476:39)

The first 300 copies include an original autograph of Bobby Bare! (only at Bear Webshop)
  • 8 CDs with 137 tracksincluding 25 previously unreleased recordings.
  • Bobby Bare's interpretations of more than a hundred Shel Silverstein songs.
  • Classic sides from 1972 - 1983 incl. six complete albums.
  • Shel Silverstein wrote hits like Sylvia’s Mother and A Boy Named Sue (made famous by Johnny Cash).
  • The live album Great American Saturday Night (unreleased at the time) is expanded here with 3 tracks. 
  • 128-page, LP-sized hardcover book with a 2020 Hank Davis interview with Bobby Bare about his friendship with Shel Silverstein, complete lyrics transcriptions, and detailed sessions discography.
  • Includes a new essay by Dave Samuelson about Shel Silverstein and his multi-faceted work.


Among Silverstein's wry sagas about winners, losers, and lonely all-night cafés, you'll discover charming children's songs and touching, affectionate love ballads. A complicated man, that Silverstein.

If most people associate the late Shel Silverstein with his children's literature, others remember his cartoons and graphic travelogues for 'Playboy.' By contrast, relatively few recognize this Chicago native as a prolific songwriter, penning such hits as Johnny Cash's A Boy Named Sue, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show's The Cover Of Rolling Stone, Loretta Lynn's One's On The Way, and The Irish Rovers' The Unicorn. He also wrote Put Another Log On The Fire, Tompall Glaser's memorable showcase on 'Wanted! The Outlaws,' country music's first platinum-selling album.

No artist recorded more Silverstein songs than veteran country singer Bobby Bare. His 1972 cover of Silverstein's bittersweet Sylia's Mother launched a professional relationship that led to an enduring friendship. At Bare's request, Silverstein conceived and composed entire concept albums, starting with 'Lullabys, Legends And Lies,' an exercise in pure imagination from 1974. This two-LP set established Bare as a major album artist and yielded Marie Laveau, the first chart-topping single of the singer's long recording career. A follow-up album, 'Hard Time Hungrys,' captured the downbeat mood of American workers during the mid- '70s recession. A perceptive 'Billboard' reviewer hailed 'Hard Time Hungrys' as "something historians will look back upon." Bare's family participated in the whimsical 'Singin' In The Kitchen,' which included the tender Daddy What If.

During the late '70s, Silverstein shifted his creative focus to playwriting and children's books, but he continued crafting clever songs specifically for Bare. When Bare wound down his major-label recording career in the mid-'80s, the singer had recorded more than 100 Silverstein originals, fifteen of them on the notorious 'Great American Saturday Night.' Recorded in 1977, that album was shelved when Bare left RCA for a more lucrative contract with COLUMBIA.


Despite their lyrical and historical importance, the Bare/Silverstein collaborations have been sporadically and haphazardly reissued during the compact disc era. In response, BEAR FAMILY RECORDS produced 'Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein, Plus,' the first com- prehensive collection of this material. Accompanied by a 128-page hardcover book, its eight CDs include 137 tracks, 25 of them previously unissued. Six albums appear complete, including integral songs by other writers. The long-unheard 'Great American Saturday Night' includes three songs missing from a recent independent label release.
The box set contains an LP-sized, lavishly illustrated 128-page hardcover book that contains song lyrics and a discography. In a conversation with Hank Davis, Bare recalls his years working with Silverstein, and Dave Samuelson documents the songwriter's multiple creative pursuits.

Often stepping well beyond today's rigid boundaries of political correctness, many songs on 'Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein, Plus' reflect an earlier era that understood and appreciated irony and satire. Besides this anthology's vivid sagas about winners, losers, and lonely all-night cafés, listeners will also discover charming children's songs and touching, affectionate love ballads, all reflecting the irreplaceable vision of Shel Silverstein.

CD 1 - Lullabys, Legends And Lies
CD 2 - Hard Time Hungrys plus
CD 3 - Singin’ In The Kitchen plus
CD 4 - Stray Bare Tracks
CD 5 - More Stray Bare Tracks
CD 6 - The Complete Great American Saturday Night
CD 7 - Down & Dirty
CD 8 - Drunk & Crazy



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Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01Lullabys, Legends And LiesBobby Bare
02PaulBobby Bare
03Marie LaveauBobby Bare
04Daddy What IfBobby Bare
05The Wonderful Soup StoneBobby Bare
06The WinnerBobby Bare
07In The Hills Of ShilohBobby Bare
08She's My Ever Lovin' MachineBobby Bare
09The MermaidBobby Bare
10Rest AwhileBobby Bare
11Bottomless WellBobby Bare
12True StoryBobby Bare
13Sure Hit Songwriters PenBobby Bare
14Rosalie's Good Eats CafeBobby Bare
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01Hard Time HungrysBobby Bare
02(Taxes On) The Farmer Feeds Us AllBobby Bare
03AlimonyBobby Bare
04Two For A DollarBobby Bare
05Back Home In Huntsville AgainBobby Bare
06Daddy's Been Around The House Too LongBobby Bare
07Warm And FreeBobby Bare
08Able-Bodied ManBobby Bare
09$100,000 In PenniesBobby Bare
10Bottles And BoxesBobby Bare
11Truck Driver, Truck DriverBobby Bare
12The Unemployment LineBobby Bare
13Too Much Blues (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
14Things To Sell (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
15Door To Door (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
16Poor Blues (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
17It's Good To Know The Sun's Still Shinin' Somewhere (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
18Lead Me Back Home (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01Singin' In The KitchenBobby Bare
02The Monkey And The ElephantBobby Bare
03Lovin' You AnywayBobby Bare
04Where'd I Come FromBobby Bare
05Ricky Ticky SongBobby Bare
06The Giving TreeBobby Bare
07You AreBobby Bare
08The UnicornBobby Bare
09Cloudy SkyBobby Bare
10She Thinks I CanBobby Bare
11Scarlet RibbonsBobby Bare
12See That BluebirdBobby Bare
13Sylvia's Mother •Bobby Bare
14You Know WhoBobby Bare
15Staying Here With Me (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
16The Wheel (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
17Love And Flowers (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
18The StrangerBobby Bare
19ChesterBobby Bare
20Bald Headed Woman •Bobby Bare
21Baby Wants To BoogieBobby Bare
22Brian HennesseyBobby Bare
23Climbin' The Ladder And Climbin' The WallsBobby Bare
24Yes, Mr RodgersBobby Bare
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01Sweet Larraine (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
02Lemme Be Something (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
03VinceBobby Bare
04Make It Pretty For Me Baby (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
05VegasBobby Bare
06It Ain't Easy (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
07February SnowBobby Bare
08Sing For The SongBobby Bare
09From The Jungle To The Zoo (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
10Too Many Nights AloneBobby Bare
11Greasy Grit GravyBobby Bare
12They Held Me Down (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
13This Guitar Is For SaleBobby Bare
14There's An 18 Wheeler In Front Of The Ritz Hotel (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
15More Like The Movies (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
16Hattie Halle And Big DupreeBobby Bare
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 5
01Nobody Wants To Go Home (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
02Childhood HeroBobby Bare
03A Week On The Town (Gone As A Goose) (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
04Yard Full Of Rusty CarsBobby Bare
05When She Cries (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
06Cold Day In HellBobby Bare
07So Good To So BadBobby Bare
08The Diet Song (Version 1)Bobby Bare
09When Hippies Get OlderBobby Bare
10Jennifer Johnson And MeBobby Bare
11Me And Jimmie RodgersBobby Bare
12You Jumped Off The Gravy TrainBobby Bare
13TimeBobby Bare
14Drinkin' From The BottleBobby Bare
15Someplace To Come When It RainsBobby Bare
16Stacy Brown Got TwoBobby Bare
17The JoggerBobby Bare
18Three-Legged ManBobby Bare
19Rodeo QueenBobby Bare
20The Diet Song (Version 2) (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 6
01Great American Saturday NightBobby Bare
02Red-Neck Hippie RomanceBobby Bare
03Kids Today (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
04Dirty Ol' Me (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
05The Diet SongBobby Bare
06Paintin' Her FingernailsBobby Bare
07Goodnight Little HouseplantBobby Bare
08I Can't Sleep (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
09The Living LegendBobby Bare
10They Won't Let Us Show It At The BeachBobby Bare
11The Day All The Yes Men Said NoBobby Bare
12TimeBobby Bare
13Whiplash WillBobby Bare
14Me And Jimmie RodgersBobby Bare
15Someone To Talk ToBobby Bare
16Great American Saturday NightBobby Bare
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 7
01Good For Nothing Blues (Funky Water)Bobby Bare
02NumbersBobby Bare
03Some Days Are DiamondsBobby Bare
04Tequila SheilaBobby Bare
05Rock Star's LamentBobby Bare
06Crazy AgainBobby Bare
07Tecumseh ValleyBobby Bare
08Blind Willie HarperBobby Bare
09Rough On The LivingBobby Bare
10Down To My Last Come And Get MeBobby Bare
11Quaaludes AgainBobby Bare
12Goin' Back To TexasBobby Bare
13I Can't Watch The Movie AnymoreBobby Bare
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 8
01Drunk And CrazyBobby Bare
02Food BluesBobby Bare
03The World's Last Truck Drivin' ManBobby Bare
04I Can Almost See Houston From HereBobby Bare
05If That Ain't LoveBobby Bare
06Rock And Roll HotelBobby Bare
07This Much Rain (prev. unrel.)Bobby Bare
08Song Of The SouthBobby Bare
09Appaloosa RiderBobby Bare
10Bathroom Tissue Paper LetterBobby Bare
11Willie JonesBobby Bare
12Gotta Get Rid Of This BandBobby Bare
13Drinkin' And Druggin' And Watchin' TVBobby Bare
14Your Credit Card Won't Get You Into HeavenBobby Bare
15I've Never Gone To Bed With An Ugly WomanBobby Bare
16Desperados Waiting For A TrainBobby Bare
Bobby Bare Bobby Bare born 7 April 1935 in Ironton - Ohio Record Labels: Fraternity,... more
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Bobby Bare

Bobby Bare
born 7 April 1935 in Ironton - Ohio Record

Labels: Fraternity, Capitol, RCA, Mercury, United Artists, Columbia, Rice, Ember, Intercord, Bare Works

First Hit: Shame On Me (1962) First Top Ten Hit: Detroit City (1963)

Former farm and factory worker Bobby Bare began his career as a guitarist in a small country band. Shortly before he was called up for military service, he quickly recorded the self-written title "All American Boy" and sold the recording with all copyrights for 50 dollars to Fraternity, which also released the record, not under the cash name but under the pseudonym Bill Parsons. After military service, Bobby Bare made a second attempt, wrote three songs for the film "Teenage Millionaire" and had his first hit in 1962 with "Shame On Me".

Bobby Bare was one of those musicians who brought a folksy touch with dominant unamplified guitars to the Nashville sound in the mid-1960s and thus met the folk trend of the time. Other great bare hits were "Detroit City", "500 Miles Away From Home", "Miller's Cave" and "Four Strong Winds".

After excursions to smaller record companies, Bobby Bare joined Columbia in the late 1970s, where he recorded a whole series of fantastic L.P.s and recorded numerous hits. Nevertheless, the great success did not come any more and so Bobby Bare came to Capitol a second time in the mid 80's, where, similar to in the 50's, also this time they did not really know what to do with him.

It remained with a few singles with medium hit parade success. Obviously Bobby Bare does not manage to continue his great time, the 60s.

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8 Dec 2020

Presents that will really sing Our picks for the season’s best box sets, books, and artist merchandise. “Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus” (Bear Family Records). An essential set for country fans. Bare predated Waylon and Willie as a Nashville trai

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Our picks for the season’s best box sets, books, and artist merchandise.
“Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus” (Bear Family Records). An essential set for country fans. Bare predated Waylon and Willie as a Nashville trailblazer who took creative control of his records. The music in these eight CDs documents his spectacular collaborations in the ’70s and ’80s with the songwriter, cartoonist, and author Shel Silverstein. Included are concept albums that cover the range from Singin’ in the Kitchen (with Bare’s wife and kids) to Down and Dirty and Drunk and Crazy.

11 Nov 2020

A gorgeous, 128-page hardback book includes a new interview with Bare, a profile on Silverstein, photos, and lyrics and liner notes for every song. This lovingly crafted set is ideal if you’re seeking a deeper dive into Bare’s storied career or whether yo

A gorgeous, 128-page hardback book includes a new interview with Bare, a profile on Silverstein, photos, and lyrics and liner notes for every song. This lovingly crafted set is ideal if you’re seeking a deeper dive into Bare’s storied career or whether you only know Silverstein from his printed stories. (bobbybare.com)

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3 Nov 2020

Los Angeles Times LIFESTYLE The music gift guide to get you through 2021 Plenty of people had hits with Shel Silverstein’s songs, but he had no better interpreter than Bobby Bare, a gentle giant of 1970s progressive country. The pair grew close as both

Los Angeles Times LIFESTYLE
The music gift guide to get you through 2021

Plenty of people had hits with Shel Silverstein’s songs, but he had no better interpreter than Bobby Bare, a gentle giant of 1970s progressive country. The pair grew close as both friends and collaborators, resulting in Bare recording more than 100 Silverstein tunes between 1972 and 1983. All those recordings are in this eight-disc box, a set that highlights the duo’s knack for lullabies, legends and down-and-dirty country.

3 Nov 2020

Bear Family’s box is a stunning tribute to their collaboration. Head down to the dive bar, crank up the jukebox, and raise a glass – or more likely, a bottle – to the great American Saturday nights of these two country renegades.

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07.08.2020
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Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - amazon review! Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) So, I was thrilled when I saw that the German-based reissue label Bear Family Records – which always goes “first class” on reissuing deluxe boxsets of artists who deserve, but rarely get, attention, I knew I’d learn more about the two of them. Yes,, like most reading this review, I knew Bobby Bare from basically one other recording back in the 1960s from his hit single “Detroit City” (written by Nashville writers Danny Dill and Mel Tillis) but other than the “LLandL album”, I knew little. After spending (literally) hours with this EIGHT-CD (plus 128-page hardbound Lp-size book) box I feel I know both guys. Thanks to the capacity of a CD vs. vinyl, the original two discs fit on the first CD. Then we get the follow-up album “Hard Time Hungrys (another misspelled title!) where not all, but most, are penned by Silverstein. Tracks recorded though not on the original album are added. “Singin’ in the Kitchen” – with the whole Bare family joining in gets the same treatment. A brief break in the flow of issued releases fills the next two CDs, “Stray Bare Tracks” and “More Stray Bare Tracks” before we get to “The COMPLETE Great American Saturday Night” ,and finally two albums from the 80s: “Down and Dirty” and “Drunk & Crazy” which ends with “Desperados Waiting For A Train”, the Guy Clark song made famous by the late Jerry Jeff Walker. The book has an essay on Silverstein and a new interview with Bare plus the lyrics to all 137 songs in the set.
03.11.2020
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Presse Archive - Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - Elmore magazine No BS, when it comes to box sets, Bear Family Records seems to set the standard. Just consider the numbers on their latest LP-sized deluxe offering: 137 tracks on 8 CDs, 6 complete albums, 25 previously unreleased masters, one 128 page hardcover book, containing interviews, tributes, photos and more photos, no selfies, but beaucoup “shelfies” (portraits by Lawson Little), along with a down-to-the-last-detail discography of sessions that ran across two decades, all of it artistically packaged and remastered beautifully so it sounds like it was recorded yesterday. Like “sessions,” the often-repeated word in Bare’s first big 1959 hit “All American Boy,” playing on lots of sessions were always very important to Robert Joseph Bare Sr.. The music world first knew Bobby as “Bill Parsons” thanks to sloppy label copy on that Top 40 hit.There’s no sloppiness here with this outstanding Bear Family production of the now CMHOF legend’s prolific partial lives work. The bulk of it originates from one irrepressible songwriter, Shel Silverstein. Much of it is conceptual, a term that did not exist in the Music Row that cranked out standard issue LPs back then, with one or two hits and eight placeholders.
02.11.2020
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Presse Archive - Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - LA Times Plenty of people had hits with Shel Silverstein’s songs, but he had no better interpreter than Bobby Bare, a gentle giant of 1970s progressive country. The pair grew close as both friends and collaborators, resulting in Bare recording more than 100 Silverstein tunes between 1972 and 1983. All those recordings are in this eight-disc box, a set that highlights the duo’s knack for lullabies, legends and down-and-dirty country.
30.10.2020
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Presse Archive - Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - theseconddisc.com The 128-page hardcover book is worth the price of admission. It features an introduction by Peter Cooper, a new interview with Bobby Bare by Hank Davis, a biographical feature on Shel Silverstein by Dave Samuelson, Bear Family’s signature discography by Richard Weize and Samuelson, and most excitingly, complete lyrics for every track. While lyrics are meant to be sung and poetry is meant to be read, Silverstein was adept at both, and his words are often an enjoyable pure reading experience. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs of both men as well as album artwork. The discs are housed in four digipaks, each holding two CDs. When placed in the box’s tray, they create one large image with their covers. An 8 x 10″ publicity-style photo of Bare and Silverstein has been placed within each box; early copies ordered directly through Bear Family found these autographed by Bare. Mixes of the unreleased material have been created by Vic Anesini and Mark Wilder at Battery Studios, and the subtle mastering is by Marcus Heumann. There are still other Bare-sings-Silverstein recordings to explore further, including the 1998 album Old Dogs on which Bobby teamed with Waylon Jennings, Mel Tillis, and Jerry Reed for another set of Shel’s songs. That Atlantic release is a coda to this collection worth seeking out, as is Twistable Turnable Man, a 2010 tribute to Silverstein produced by Bobby and his son Bobby Bare Jr. who by then had become an acclaimed artist in his own right. In Samuelson’s text on Silverstein, it’s revealed that Bobby Sr. spoke to Shel on what turned out to be his final night on earth. Their close, brotherly rapport is evident throughout these eight discs of enduring music. Bear Family’s box is a stunning tribute to their collaboration. Head down to the dive bar, crank up the jukebox, and raise a glass – or more likely, a bottle – to the great American Saturday nights of these two country renegades.
29.10.2020
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Presse Archive - Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - annecarlini.com Title - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus [8CD Box] Artist - Bobby Bare For those not in the know, no artist recorded more Shel Silverstein songs than veteran country singer Bobby Bare. Indeed, his 1972 cover of Silverstein's bittersweet 'Sylvia's Mother' launched a professional relationship that led to an enduring friendship. Lullabys, Legends And Lies (1974) remains an exercise in pure imagination, establishing Bare as a major album artist and yielded 'Marie Laveau,' Bare's first chart-topping single. Furthermore, among Silverstein's wry sagas about winners, losers, and lonely all-night cafés, you'll discover charming children's songs and touching, affectionate love ballads. A complicated man, that Silverstein. If most people associate the late Shel Silverstein with his children's literature, others remember his cartoons and graphic travelogues for Playboy. By contrast, relatively few recognize this Chicago native as a prolific songwriter, penning such hits as Johnny Cash's 'A Boy Named Sue,' Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show's 'The Cover Of Rolling Stone,' Tompall Glaser's 'Another Log On The Fire,' and Loretta Lynn's 'One's On The Waycorn.' During the late '70s, Silverstein shifted his creative focus to playwriting and children's books, but he continued crafting clever songs specifically for Bare. By the mid-'80s, Bare had recorded more than 100 Silverstein originals. Out now, Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein, Plus is the first comprehensive collection of this material, and is accompanied by a quite wondrous 128-page hardcover book. Complete with eight (8) CDs (with a total playing time of 476:39 minutes), which include 137 tracks, 25 of them previously unissued, six (6) albums appear complete, including integral songs by other writers. The long-unheard Great American Saturday Night includes three songs missing from a recent independent label release. The Box-Set contains an LP-sized, lavishly illustrated 128-page hardcover book that contains song lyrics and a discography. In a conversation with Hank Davis, Bare recalls his years working with Silverstein, and Dave Samuelson documents the songwriter's multiple creative pursuits. That all said, there is also to be found a disclaimer within the liner notes from author Dave Samuelson: “Newcomers to the Bare/Silverstein catalog should note several of these recordings contain language that may surprise if not shock more sensitive ears." "Always the iconoclast, Silverstein generally directed his ribald, often dark humor to a predominantly male audience. His world straddled both the Playboy philosophy and the bohemian Beat Generation of the 1950s."
28.10.2020
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Presse Archive - Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - The Big Takeover Bobby Bare – Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (Bear Family) Bobby Bare Shel Silverstein 10 November 2020 by Jon M. Young A celebrated children’s book author (“Where the Sidewalk Ends”), as well as a cartoonist and playwright, the multi-dimensional Shel Silverstein probably made his biggest mark as a songwriter, with such witty hits as the Johnny Cash smash “A Boy Named Sue” and Dr. Hook’s “The Cover of Rolling Stone” to his credit. The performer most associated with his tunes, however, was the smooth country crooner Bobby Bare, who helped craft the template for the polished countrypolitan sound in the ‘60s on such smashes as “Detroit City” and “Five Hundred Miles Away from Home.” Bare shifted gears in the early ‘70s, becoming a charter member of the outlaw movement that rejected conservative Nashville formulas and made superstars of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. From 1972 to 1983, he recorded more than a hundred of Silverstein’s inventive compositions, in the process creating the classic albums Lullabys, Legends and Lies and Down & Dirty. Offering 137 tracks (most written or co-written by Silverstein) on eight CDs, including more than two dozen previously unreleased cuts, along with a large, 128-page hardcover book, this wonderful set is a feast of irreverent humor, bracing social commentary and tender vignettes. Among the six full or expanded albums featured in Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus are Hard Time Hungrys, a chronicle of economic struggle, and the family-oriented Singin’ in the Kitchen, while two discs of “Stray Bare Tracks” collect singles-only releases or otherwise-overlooked Silverstein songs from other projects. On the basis of sheer bulk alone, this massive compilation could seem daunting, which is the opposite intent of the music. A supremely genial vocalist, Bare’s easygoing style brings a warm glow to gentle ballads and boozy barroom singalongs alike. Dig almost anywhere and a gem awaits! A few highlights: the toe-tapping tale of voodoo queen “Marie Laveau,” which topped the country charts in 1974; “Yard Full of Rusty Cars,” a sly, talking blues-style account of down-home hospitality; and the aching love song “When She Cries.” Much like a great short story collection, Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus brings all manner of memorable characters to life, celebrating oddballs, losers and renegades. It’s a perfect match of brilliant composer and masterful interpreter.
10.11.2020
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Presse Archive - Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - Illinois Entertainer Country music superstar Bobby Bare’s career spans more than six staggering decades, with an extensive catalog peppered with hits from the heyday of American radio from the late ’50s to the mid-’80s. Bare’s 1958 #2 single “The All American Boy” (errantly credited to Bill Parsons) was inspired by Elvis Presley’s success and conscription into the army. The Danny Dill and Mel Tillis-written “Detroit City” was a #16 single on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963, and the homesick “500 Miles Away From Home” hit #10 the same year. “Drop Kick Me Jesus” was a crossover novelty hit in 1976. Through these singles and piles more, Bare kickstarted the Outlaw Country movement while proving to be an engaging storyteller and consummate interpreter of song. 1974 country chart-topper “Marie Leveau” marked a special connection, though. The song from 1973’s Lullabys, Legends and Lies was the comical story of a loathsome Louisiana witch who was not to be crossed by any man, and it was written by Bare’s close friend by Shel Silverstein. Although Bare’s partnership with the beloved renaissance man (songwriter, poet, playwright, performer, children’s author and Playboy cartoonist is a pretty broad spectrum) ended with Silverstein’s death in 1999, the pair’s magic was rekindled this year with the standalone release of lost 1978 album Great American Saturday Night–an album composed entirely of Silverstein songs.
11.11.2020
Presse Archive - Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - ricentral.com
Presse Archive - Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus - ricentral.com Founded in 1975, Bear Family Records of Germany has pretty much set the golden standard for box set reissues beginning with multi-LP sets in its early days and moving to compact disc with its advent as a medium in the 1980s. The latter, by virtue of being able to contain up to 80 minutes of music on a single disc, afforded Bear Family the opportunity to amass even larger and more comprehensive retrospectives on an artist or genre spanning 10-CD sets focusing on such cats as Lefty Frizell and Fats Domino or more recently a compilation chronicling the Bakersfield, California country music scene from the 1940s to ‘70s. Consider Bear Family the vault raiders who invade the tombs of record companies and grab as much as they can on an artist and turn it into a lavish box set oft-times replete with hard-cover coffee table type book containing everything you need to know about the artist and recordings contained within. The country music singer/songwriter Bobby Bare has certainly qualified for legend status thanks to early smashes like “500 Miles from Home,” “Miller’s Cave,” “Four Strong Winds,” “Streets of Baltimore,” and “Detroit City,” as well as later hits “Marie Laveau” and “Daddy, What If.” A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and a master of the country ballad, that last mentioned hit leads us into this week’s Ear Bliss focus which is the newest box set from Bear Family Records chronicling Bare’s work with the writer Shel Silverstein. Silverstein’s name is one mostly synonymous with children’s literature thanks to books like “Where The Sidewalk Ends” and “Light in the Attic.” So how does a Bobby Bare and Shel Silverstein connect? Whereas they had met prior thanks to Bare covering the hit song “Sylvia’s Mother” by Dr. Hook & His Medicine Show which just so happened to be written by Silverstein, it wasn’t until meeting again at a music industry party that would get the collaborative ball rolling. It was also lead to a friendship that would last until 1999 when Silverstein succumbed to cancer. Over the course of that friendship, Bare by his own recollection would record over 100 Silverstein compositions, many of which made it to records beginning with the hit Bare album from 1973 entirely written by Silverstein called Lullabys, Legends and Lies. It leads off the new released 8-CD LP-sized box set titled Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus from Bear Family. It features some 137 songs representing six full albums including 25 previously unreleased tracks. It gets the Ear Bliss look-see this week. Let’s get to it.
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Tracklist
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Lullabys, Legends And Lies
02 Paul
03 Marie Laveau
04 Daddy What If
05 The Wonderful Soup Stone
06 The Winner
07 In The Hills Of Shiloh
08 She's My Ever Lovin' Machine
09 The Mermaid
10 Rest Awhile
11 Bottomless Well
12 True Story
13 Sure Hit Songwriters Pen
14 Rosalie's Good Eats Cafe
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 Hard Time Hungrys
02 (Taxes On) The Farmer Feeds Us All
03 Alimony
04 Two For A Dollar
05 Back Home In Huntsville Again
06 Daddy's Been Around The House Too Long
07 Warm And Free
08 Able-Bodied Man
09 $100,000 In Pennies
10 Bottles And Boxes
11 Truck Driver, Truck Driver
12 The Unemployment Line
13 Too Much Blues (prev. unrel.)
14 Things To Sell (prev. unrel.)
15 Door To Door (prev. unrel.)
16 Poor Blues (prev. unrel.)
17 It's Good To Know The Sun's Still Shinin' Somewhere (prev. unrel.)
18 Lead Me Back Home (prev. unrel.)
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Singin' In The Kitchen
02 The Monkey And The Elephant
03 Lovin' You Anyway
04 Where'd I Come From
05 Ricky Ticky Song
06 The Giving Tree
07 You Are
08 The Unicorn
09 Cloudy Sky
10 She Thinks I Can
11 Scarlet Ribbons
12 See That Bluebird
13 Sylvia's Mother •
14 You Know Who
15 Staying Here With Me (prev. unrel.)
16 The Wheel (prev. unrel.)
17 Love And Flowers (prev. unrel.)
18 The Stranger
19 Chester
20 Bald Headed Woman •
21 Baby Wants To Boogie
22 Brian Hennessey
23 Climbin' The Ladder And Climbin' The Walls
24 Yes, Mr Rodgers
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 Sweet Larraine (prev. unrel.)
02 Lemme Be Something (prev. unrel.)
03 Vince
04 Make It Pretty For Me Baby (prev. unrel.)
05 Vegas
06 It Ain't Easy (prev. unrel.)
07 February Snow
08 Sing For The Song
09 From The Jungle To The Zoo (prev. unrel.)
10 Too Many Nights Alone
11 Greasy Grit Gravy
12 They Held Me Down (prev. unrel.)
13 This Guitar Is For Sale
14 There's An 18 Wheeler In Front Of The Ritz Hotel (prev. unrel.)
15 More Like The Movies (prev. unrel.)
16 Hattie Halle And Big Dupree
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 5
01 Nobody Wants To Go Home (prev. unrel.)
02 Childhood Hero
03 A Week On The Town (Gone As A Goose) (prev. unrel.)
04 Yard Full Of Rusty Cars
05 When She Cries (prev. unrel.)
06 Cold Day In Hell
07 So Good To So Bad
08 The Diet Song (Version 1)
09 When Hippies Get Older
10 Jennifer Johnson And Me
11 Me And Jimmie Rodgers
12 You Jumped Off The Gravy Train
13 Time
14 Drinkin' From The Bottle
15 Someplace To Come When It Rains
16 Stacy Brown Got Two
17 The Jogger
18 Three-Legged Man
19 Rodeo Queen
20 The Diet Song (Version 2) (prev. unrel.)
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 6
01 Great American Saturday Night
02 Red-Neck Hippie Romance
03 Kids Today (prev. unrel.)
04 Dirty Ol' Me (prev. unrel.)
05 The Diet Song
06 Paintin' Her Fingernails
07 Goodnight Little Houseplant
08 I Can't Sleep (prev. unrel.)
09 The Living Legend
10 They Won't Let Us Show It At The Beach
11 The Day All The Yes Men Said No
12 Time
13 Whiplash Will
14 Me And Jimmie Rodgers
15 Someone To Talk To
16 Great American Saturday Night
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 7
01 Good For Nothing Blues (Funky Water)
02 Numbers
03 Some Days Are Diamonds
04 Tequila Sheila
05 Rock Star's Lament
06 Crazy Again
07 Tecumseh Valley
08 Blind Willie Harper
09 Rough On The Living
10 Down To My Last Come And Get Me
11 Quaaludes Again
12 Goin' Back To Texas
13 I Can't Watch The Movie Anymore
Bare, Bobby - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 8
01 Drunk And Crazy
02 Food Blues
03 The World's Last Truck Drivin' Man
04 I Can Almost See Houston From Here
05 If That Ain't Love
06 Rock And Roll Hotel
07 This Much Rain (prev. unrel.)
08 Song Of The South
09 Appaloosa Rider
10 Bathroom Tissue Paper Letter
11 Willie Jones
12 Gotta Get Rid Of This Band
13 Drinkin' And Druggin' And Watchin' TV
14 Your Credit Card Won't Get You Into Heaven
15 I've Never Gone To Bed With An Ugly Woman
16 Desperados Waiting For A Train