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Collection of the Greatest Hits from Another One of Country Music's Innovators. Includes "All American Boy", "Drop Kick Me, Jesus", "When I'm Gone" and Many More.

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Raven presents, for the first time on CD, one of the greatest live recordings ever! By 1979, BOBBY BARE had been recording for 25 years yet when he strapped on a Fender Telecaster and recorded live in the studio a rough and rowdy album with a bunch of Nashville's finest musicians, he was set to hit new highs in an illustrious career. Down & Dirty was both a glorious last hurrah for the ‘outlaw' movement and a touchstone for the ‘new country' of current darlings Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson etc. According to AMG's Thom Jurek it is, "Bare in his element: live, rowdy, and dangerous. This is good-time outlaw country. Bare's band rocks and rolls, swings and strolls through 13 tracks from a rejuvenated Bare. The humor is in large supply; the poignancy is everywhere. But it's the tune selection that makes this is such a killer record." For every outrageous Shel Silverstein song (Numbers, Qualudes Again) there is a tender, sensitive or just plain poetic masterpiece. In the words of Bill Graham, "Bobby Bare is the Bruce Springstein of country music". Embellished with eight stunning bonus tracks, circa 1978-1980, this is good time outlaw country at its finest. Comes with an 8-page booklet with detailed liner notes.

Bobby dedicated 1975's Cowboys and Daddys to the "ropers and dopers, the redneck mothers, the cosmics, the drinkers and thinkers and all the other Bi-Centennial cowboys." Here's that outlaw classic plus his 1977 LP of Bob McDill songs AND three of his key collaborations with Shel Silverstein as bonus cuts 26 in all! His Top 10s Daddy What If and Marie Laveau and hits Cowboys and Daddys and Look Who I'm Cheating On Tonight join The Stranger; Chester; Hillbilly Hell; Till I Get on My Feet , and more.

Built around a concept and songs supplied by maverick songwriter Shel Silverstein, Bobby Bare's Hard Time Hungrys is an astounding and affecting chronicle of economic depression and the people most buffeted by it. Recorded in 1975 the album is more timely than ever with its moving and good humoured tales of the disenfranchised and their plight. From light-hearted odes to the life of poverty (Warm And Free) to earthy tales of the hard scrabble (The Farmer Feeds Us All, Two For A Dollar) the album is profound and friendly. The following year Bare cut The Winner...and Other Losers an engaging set that features many highlights including one of the most bizarre spirituals ever committed to wax, Dropkick Me, Jesus. Remastered from the original RCA Victor mastertapes in 2012. 24 track CD. All original recordings. 20 page full colour booklet with exclusive liner notes and rare photos.

Berserk yet sublime children's tunes from the pen of Shel Silverstein! First time on CD! The teaming of Bobby Bare and Shel Silverstein was one of the most interesting partnerships in Nashville music history. Bare, the country singing star, had a smooth baritone and an ear for strong, unconventional material. Silverstein was an outright maverick, beginning his career as a cartoonist for Playboy magazine he later recorded a number of off-beat and slyly humourous albums of his own but today is best remembered as the author of mesmeric classics of children's literature like Where The Sidewalk Ends and The Giving Tree (as well as composing left-field hits like Johnny Cash's A Boy Named Sue and Marianne Faithfull's Ballad Of Lucy Jordan amongst many others). Together they were responsible for the sublime yet almost forgotten 1974 children's album Singin'In The Kitchen. From the clamorous joy of the title track to Bare's beautiful and poignant rendition of The Giving Tree, Singin' In The Kitchen is a unique, disarmingly well crafted LP. Also included are ten cuts from Bare's superb 1967 gospel LP This I Believe and a number of other rare 45 and album tracks. Remastered with love and care and featuring exclusive detailed liner notes all cuts make their first appearance on CD here. Deluxe packaging, 20 page full colour booklet with exclusive notes, rare photos etc.