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 ...

Iconic songwriter and Country Music Hall of Fame member Bobby Bare turns 85 on April 7th and will follow that milestone 10 days later with a brand-new album, Great American Saturday Night. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bare, however, became Silverstein's unlikely champion, digging beyond the humorist's infamous wit to mine an iconoclast's poignant narratives in song. For his part, Silverstein offered the country ...

In spite of having 70 songs on the country music charts - and 13 of them in the Top 10 – a singer's very first single release does not make the country music charts but does peak at No. 2 on the pop ...

The Grand Ole Opry welcomed home Bobby Bare as an official Opry member Saturday evening, the Country Music Hall of Famer's 83rd birthday. Bare had been a member of the Opry cast in the 1960s and 70s, ...