Yesterday was CMHOF member Bobby Bare's 84th Birthday! Watch Bobby Bare perform his hit "Streets Of Baltimore" live on Ray Stevens CabaRay Nashville followed by a short excerpt of an interview where they discuss Ray's involvement in recording the original song. Happy Birthday, Bobby! | Ray Stevens

Country Music Hall of Fame member Bobby Bare performs his #1 country hit from 1974, “Marie Laveau,” written by Shel Silverstein, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, recorded during the opening concert in 2018 for the major exhibition “Outlaws & Armadillos: Country’s Roaring '70s.” The Outlaw phenomenon increased country music’s audience in the 1970s, led by pacesetters such as Bare, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Guy Clark, and many others—an expressive time define

#MusicEndures ▶ “You work harder than anybody I know,” Bobby Bare told Willie Nelson in 1983, when Nelson — a prolific writer, deft guitarist, tireless touring artist, and one of the central figures of country music’s Outlaw movement — appeared on the television series “Bobby Bare & Friends.” Bare, also a veteran artist with wide-reaching influence, spent the 1960s recording smashes such as “Streets of Baltimore,” and then kicked off country music’s Outlaw era when he fought to gain control of h