The Essential Bobby Bare

The Best of Bobby Bare	Old Dogs The Old Dogs are Bobby Bare, Waylon Jennings, Mel Tillis, and Jerry Reed, four old-school country & western legends now rejected by a youth-obsessed Nashville. Refusing a rocking chair, these good old boys have fought back and made music for the mature, twang-lovin' audience they...	16 Biggest Hits	Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends and Lies Soon after Bobby returned to RCA in 1972, he recorded an entire LP of songs by the legendary songwriter, cartoonist and humorist Shel Silverstein. The album yielded three hits, Daddy What If, Marie Laveau (Bobby's first ever #1 hit) and The Winner. Ten other songs feature Silvers...	Johnny Horton - Greatest Hits While Louisiana Hayride star Johnny Horton's 1956 Top 10 debut "Honky Tonk Man" strode the line between rockabilly and honky-tonk minimalism, he found his niche in 1959 with a short-lived phenomenon known as the saga song: newly penned tunes, based on or inspired by historical ev...
Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends and Lies (And More)	The Essential Earl Thomas Conley	The Essential Skeeter Davis	The Essential Hank Snow Tender ballads, urgent travel songs, infectious boogies--Canadian Hank Snow not only handled them all, but he handled them quite well and rode them all to the top of the country charts. His music was a logical extension of his idol Jimmie Rodgers's style, and Snow's letter-perfec...	Classics

The Essential Bobby Bare
I was glad to find and purchase this CD. I have been looking for this CD for months and was able to give this CD as a gift to my family. The service(quick delivery time) was awesome and really love the music too.

Decent album
One of the better "Best OF...." albums. To be honest, I care little for the sound of '70's country music, although there were a few notable exception. Bobby Bare, despite his early Rock-n-Roll venture, stayed true to form and put out a few memorable hits for a wasted decade. I could do without the obligatory "father to son" talking song so popular in this era (Thank you Red Sovine, Bill Anderson, etc....), but the good far outweighs the bad on this album. Not sure that Bobby was ever an "outlaw" (and after judging by today's definition of that crowd, he may not want to be associated with the term anyway!), but he did things his own way; which is why I think he flourished during the death of the Nashville Sound and the increasing Disco beats of Barbara Mandrell and Kenny & Dolly. The recordings on this albium are superb, and you can really appreciate Bobby's straight-forward, no-nonsense, approach to presenting a song. Overall, I give the album a grade of B.

Bobby Bare as good as expected
I haven't heard a Bare song on the radio in quite a while and it is quite enjoyable to listen to his songs.The best being Detroit City followed closely by 500 miles from home and The All American Boy. The delivery service was better than expected and the cd as I stated is a good one. I haven't had the oppertunity to watch Path to Power as of yet, so I can offer no review on this dvd, except to say the delivery service was better than expected.

SOME Essentials Here + Cowboys and Daddys (No)
Lackluser reviews, folks. You can do better. A fair number of "hits" but still ignoring "Shame on Me" and "Just to Satisfy You". Not all essentials have to be hick stuff (or on virtually every other Bare CD). And for those still looking for "Cowboys and Daddys", try MusicMatch.com and look for the "Masters" album.

A Minority Opinion! This One Grew Stale.
I just completed a review of "The Essential Dotty West" in which I wrote that the CD grew on me the more I listen. This is the opposite. I grew tired of "The Essential Bobby Bare" very quickly. I believe this is due to the fact that Bobby sings mechanicallly, just like a performer in the studio grinding them out.Perhaps Bobby has made one bus tour too many. I may be prejudiced because I've read that Bobby was one of the early "OUTLAWS" who, it says here, tried to ruin country music for their own gain. On a positive note, these "Essential" group of albums seem to br very well produced. I would urge amazon listeners to acquaint themselves with this series of classic country.