Many artists spend decades striving for their first Grammy nomination. Bobby Bare Jr. achieved that milestone by age eight, earning a nod for “Daddy What If”, the Shel Silverstein-penned duet with his father, country music singer-songwriter Bobby Bare Sr. As an adult, the younger Bare has carved out his own musical path, best known for injecting humor, pathos, and pop culture references into his songwriting in the style of Silverstein. Today, we’re diving into the life and career of Robert Joseph “Bobby” Bare Jr., born in Nashville, Tennessee, on this day (June 28) in 1966.
One of his father’s three children with wife Jeannie, Bare Jr. grew up in Hendersonville, Tennessee, next door to country music’s first couple, George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
After “Daddy What If”—an imagined conversation between a father and his son—took off, he regularly performed the duet with his dad…