If you’re a fan of country music legend Bobby Bare, you’re really going to love this project, as it collects more than 100 Shel Silverstein songs he recorded between 1972-1983. Spanned out across eight discs and housed in an LP sized box, there’s even 25 unreleased tracks included, as well as a 128-page hardcover book with lyrics, photos and an interview. <\/p>\n
Although known mostly as an author of poetry and children’s books, Silverstein was also an accomplished folksinger and songwriter. He even penned \u201cA Boy Named Sue,\u201d which Johnny Cash popularized. Silverstein and Bare became friends despite their seemingly very different lifestyles, and six of the discs here cover Silverstein’s work written specifically for Bare, including the albums Lullabys, Legends, And Lies; Singin’ In The Kitchen; Hard Time Hungrys; Great American Saturday Night; Down & Dirty; Drunk & Crazy<\/i>. <\/p>\n
Though he’s certainly known first and foremost as a country musician, Bare was often quite diverse. Songs like the folk spirit of \u201cMarie Laveau,\u201d as well as the FM dial-friendly \u201cDaddy What If\u201d certainly prove that. Meanwhile, the pedal steel and fiddle prowess of \u201cYou Know Who\u201d reinforce his strong country delivery. <\/p>\n
Of the two other discs, which are appropriately titled Stray Bare Tracks<\/i> and More Stray Bare Tracks, <\/i>\u201cFebruary Snow\u201d is a great example of Bare’s pensive side, while \u201cSomeplace To Come When It Rains\u201d displays Bare’s inimitable drawl alongside aching melodies that sound right at home in Nashville. <\/p>\n
The bulk of these tunes have been available elsewhere, but here they’re all collected in one convenient place that spans eight hours of music. Sure, Silverstein, a beatnik with a very atypical lyrical approach, and Bare, the outlaw country star, might seem like an unlikely pair, but their combined skill set resulted in some of the best music ever made. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10071],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-46013","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-bobby-bare","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46013"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}