 Bobby Bare is still one of the most entertaining recording artists ever. Hestarted his career in the pop charts in 1958 under the name of Bill Parsonswith "All American Boy." But under his real name, he graced the countrycharts between 1962 and 1986, racking up some seventy entries. Bobby Bare also won a Grammy for "Best Country Recording" with "Detroit City" and was nominated over the next several years for "Best Country Single" and "Best Male Country Vocal Performance." Bobby Bare, Chet Atkins, Jim Reeves and the Anita Kerr Singers made the first ever commercial Country Music tour of Europe, playing to sold-outcrowds at some of the biggest venues there. Bare returned to Germany the following year for three months, and has toured overseas almost every year since, establishing himself as one of Europe's most popular American Musicartists. Called "an outspoken advocate for new directions in Country Music," "a shrewd judge of talent who helped bring attention to a number ofsuperstars," "a Country artist who successfully experimented with the Folkgenre," and "a storyteller who reinvigorated the storytelling tradition in Country Music," Bare had proven to have all of these attributes, and more. Bare's also funny and smart and very, very laid-back, and an individualist who has imprinted his brand of Country Music permanently on the world.
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