New Bobby Bare Album “Things Change” to Feature a Collaboration with Chris Stapleton
The original country music Outlaw Bobby Bare will release his first record in five years when Things Change hits the streets on May 26th. The 10-track album will feature songs written by Bare, as well as Mary Gauthier (“I Drink”), and legendary songwriter Max T. Barnes who also produced the project. Among other standouts, the album features what is thought to be Guy Clark’s last song, which he co-wrote with Bare, and a collaboration with Chris Stapleton on Bare’s classic “Detroit City.” The album will be released by Hypermedia Nashville.
“This is a special collection of songs to me, not just another record,” says Bobby Bare. “Great songs from Mary Gauthier, a song I co-wrote with Guy Clark that turned out to be his last and a song that my buddy Hoyt Axton inspired me to write called ‘Things Change.’ That’s the title of the album and the first single. Things do change but my love for songwriters and the fans never, ever will!”
The song “Things Change” at one point appeared in a limited-release record out of Norway of the same name after it won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012. Bare performed the song with Norwegian musician Petter Øien (see below).
“I hit the road as a lead guitar player with Bobby Bare when I was 20 years old,” says producer Max T. Barnes “To imagine I would produce my hero all these years later is a dream come true. We had so much fun touring the world in the 1980s. We laughed until we hurt! That’s what it was like in the studio with Bare on this album. He has a wicked smart song sense, and a delivery that will cut you to the bone. Bare is a true giant.”
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Things Change track list:
1. “Things Change”
2. “The End”
3. “Ain’t No Sure Thing”
4. “The Trouble With Angels”
5. “I Drink”
6. “Mercy Now”
7. “Trophy Girl”
8. “Where Did It Go”
9. “You Got the Light”
10. “Detroit City” (feat. Chris Stapleton)
March 29, 2017 @ 7:03 pm
It’s good to see Bobby Bare putting out a new album. I remember when I was young that my mother talked about going to one of his concerts in the 1960s. Speaking of artists from that era, has anyone heard any rumblings of a new Charley Pride album ?
March 29, 2017 @ 7:49 pm
Bobby Bare is incredible. Besides loving his music I could listen to his stories all night.
March 30, 2017 @ 5:41 am
81 and still going strong.
March 30, 2017 @ 1:12 pm
3 comments on the New Bobby Bare Album on a site called saving country music!!! Hipsters are as dumb as pop and bro country fans….
March 30, 2017 @ 1:27 pm
Comments are not always indicative of interest. This article has received a lot of love on social media, and traffic to it is about what you would expect. Perhaps there’s juts not a lot to discuss.
March 30, 2017 @ 2:41 pm
On some country sites, if they get three comments from people not named Ken, they pop a bottle of champagne.
March 30, 2017 @ 2:49 pm
What’s wrong with Ken? He’s a big fan. 😉
March 30, 2017 @ 3:04 pm
Ask Barbie
March 30, 2017 @ 7:31 pm
In that case, if we fans need to comment, I have a favorite Bare story I love to tell – it was 2009 and I was getting married on a tiny island resort in Fiji. Later that month I had tickets for a Bare show in MN and so while visiting with the manager, a local, older Fijian, my wife brought the show up, how I was making her go, and asked if he’d ever heard of Bobby Bare. And you know? He laughed, said of course, and started singing, in his accent, “Shame on Me!” Turns out Bare was big on their radio back in the day and he knew all the songs!
April 24, 2017 @ 12:54 am
Now there’s a global deep Pacific tickle of folklore!
The shock of not only finding Bare Pere after all these years
with a polished existential gem of songcraft representing Norway at
Eurovision is just too Broadway Danny Rose to believe. Was the
Atlantic City Diving Horse on the Eurovision bill too?
The most surreal thing is how this 2012 song entry turns into the
most relevant song to hit any radio format or the few remaining free-
form stations or podcasts somewhere between Buddhist Country & Western
and Samuel Beckett’s deadest of dead-pans…An anthem for the 99.99%’s
TIME OF THE GYPSIES (If only Bare and his Norwegian collaborators
could cover that post-Yugoslavia’s Bosnian movie masterpiece soundtrack’s
theme song “Ederljezi\Spring Ritual of Ste George”) or Age of Displacement…
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March 30, 2017 @ 2:56 pm
Bobby Bare is a treasure. His versions of ‘Detroit City’, ‘Streets Of Baltimore’ and ‘500 Miles Away From Home’ are definitive in my opinion.
It’s great to see these veteran artists continue to make records for as long as they can.
March 30, 2017 @ 4:23 pm
this will probably be his last album of new material I hope it gets some attention and I hope its great like porter wagoners final album!
March 30, 2017 @ 4:41 pm
I always found Bare to be similar to Johnny Cash in his ability to put over a story about some larger-than-life, kick-ass characters. Bare seemed to be the go-to guy for Shel Silverstein songs. Cash only did one Silverstein song, of note, but it was one of the monster hits of the ’60s.
Bare was actually more adventuresome than Cash, in terms of doing wild, off-color songs.
Anyway, I thought Bare’s last comeback album, “Darker than Light,” from five years ago, was in some ways modeled on, but was also the equal of any of Cash’s late-period American recordings produced by Rick Rubin. Too bad Bare’s album did not garner anywhere near the attention that Cash received at the end. I’ll be surprised if Bare will be able to replicate the quality of “Darker than Light” at this stage, but it’s worth a shot.
March 30, 2017 @ 7:30 pm
In this fan interview, of which I got two questions picked to be answered, he said he had some extra songs in the vault – hope those get released someday!
March 30, 2017 @ 7:30 pm
http://nodepression.com/interview/your-interview-bobby-bare
March 31, 2017 @ 7:44 am
Lucky old sun your probably right because the last album it also had been about 30 years since he made a new one
March 31, 2017 @ 5:09 pm
Almost, but not quite.
In the 2000’s Bare allowed his son, Bobby Bare Jr. to produce a CD on him. The hipster Bare Jr. reimagined his father as a lounge act and came up with something called “The Moon was Blue,” which sounded like Bobby Bare channeling Perry Como. I think it was Bare Jr., getting back at his father for “Daddy, What if?” (which Bobby Sr. had kind of predicted he might do). Anyway, “Darker than Light” was a fabulous return to form from that mess.
And in the ’90s, Bare was part of the geezer supergroup “Old Dogs”–with Waylon and Jerry Reed–for some fun and wacky CDs of Shel Silverstein’s ruminations on aging!
March 31, 2017 @ 7:31 pm
There, Trig got his first argument on this thread because I liked “Moon is Blue!” True, the Jr. added musical affectations at the start of many of the songs should have been cut but as I love slow Bare songs, these ones are great. I enjoy country artists tackling standards and Bare’s version of “Everybody’s Talkin'” rivals Nilsson’s. Plus it’s not a Bare album without a Shel tune and “Ballad of Lucy Jordan” is a gem!
But I agree with you on the Old Dogs – well worth the price. Youtube has some great video of Reed, Bare, Waylon, and Tillis all talking and picking, with Shel showing up at the end.
March 31, 2017 @ 6:53 am
This article brought back some nostalgia and I listened to a couple hours of BB yesterday.
Easy listening and what great story telling. He’ll be back in the rotation a bit again..
April 1, 2017 @ 2:04 pm
old dogs was great
April 2, 2017 @ 6:21 pm
Jeff Hyde and Roger Springer co-wrote the title cut, “Things change”. Congrats to them! Great to see modern hitmakers staying grounded, having relationships with country music legends like Bobby.
And trigger, your site freezes my phone and computer repeatedly. No other sites cause trouble. You have a problem with your site that began with all the ad implementation.
June 13, 2017 @ 6:16 pm
Willie’s Roadhouse has been playing Things Change and I love it!!! I love Bobby Bare’s voice!