Bobby, or Junior (as we call him when hes not listening) has already had quite the life in music. Son of country music royalty Bobby Bare (singer of such classics as "Detroit City, "Millers Cave," and "500 Miles Away From Home" and 56 other Top 40 country hits), Bobby was nominated for a Grammy for a duet with his father at the age of 5. He even sang on the Ryman stage on its closing night. Dont know about you, but at 5 most of us in the office were still working out the intriguing mysteries of the bathroom and figuring out how they fit all those little people in the TV. He has been honing his performing and writing skills ever since

Since the late 90s he has been fronting the boss hog rock band Bare Jr. With their two records, "Boo-tay" and "Brainwasher," they memorably rocked out on a Nirvana-on-Skynryd-not-Sabbath groove, more indebted to the homebrew than "The Other H."

Few that we have found can combine humor, pain, and anger in such an effortlessly well-crafted manner. If encountered in public, beware: he is big, gregarious, good-natured fellow who will giddily talk music (from the Smiths to Roger Miller to Metallica to Dolly Parton ----sometimes in one breath) until the bartender is tossing you both out.