*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Bobby Bare Jr. Handout photo Before he reached his 8th birthday in 1974, Bobby Bare Jr. had already been nominated for a Grammy ...

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 ...

In April, country legend Bobby Bare will release a new album, Great American Saturday Night. Ahead of the record's release, he's giving The Boot's readers an advance listen to the project's title ...

Bobby Bare's new Great American Saturday Night album will include a rebel-rouser that's perhaps even more relevant today than it was when he first recorded it. Listen to "The Day All the Yes Men Said ...

Tri-State native Bobby Bare was recently inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame along with Kenny Rogers and the late Cowboy Jack Clement. Bare grew up outside of Ironton in the southern Ohio ...

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 ...

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 ...

On April 7, Country Music Hall of Famer and Grand Ole Opry member Bobby Bare's 90th birthday will be feted via a star-studded Americana Music Association-sponsored event in Nashville. Though the ...

In his current book “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” the revered musical artist Bob Dylan critiques 66 popular recordings to explain how music reveals the character of a culture. Wouldn’t you know it, ...

"I had a woman come up to me at a Newport Jazz Festival, and she wanted to say, 'You should be so much bigger.'" Bobby Bare Jr. chuckled. "But she was drunk and ended up saying, 'You should be so much ...

AUSTIN — While the future at South By Southwest Music and Media Conference belongs to young acts like La Santa Cecilia, Lucius, Elle King, the Night Beats, the teenage Seaside Swifts (and thousands ...