BARE, BOBBY
(*1935)
BARE, BOBBY (b. Robert Joseph B., Ironton, Ohio, April 7, 1935) A longtime SINGER/SONGWRITER, Bare has passed through many career phases, from country to folk to R&B-shaded rock and back to country again. He is best known for his mid-1970s hit Detroit City. Bare was raised in relative poverty on a farm by his father (his mother had died when he was five years old). He began working as a farm laborer when he was fifteen, and eventually landed a job in a clothing factory. Bobby Bare and clan, c…