Bare / Sleeper Wherever I Fall (2-For-1)

Bobby Bare | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Raven [Australia]
• ASIN: B001CW7MJC
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,138 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

For the first time on CD, Raven presents two of the finest Country albums of all time by Bobby Bare - 'Bare' (1978) and Sleeper Wherever I Fall (1978). On Bare, Bobby is joined by song-writer Shel Silverstein for a series of freewheeling and humorous vignettes such as 'Yard Full of Rusty Cars', 'Greasy Grit Gravy', 'Too Many Nights Alone' (US Country #29) and 'Sing for the Song' and Bare's peerless covers of Donald Schlitz's 'The Gambler' and Larry Wilkerson's 'Finger on the Button'. Helping out on backing vocals were Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Silverstein. Sleeper wherever I Fall was another stellar release featuring memorable and distinctive covers of Silbar/Lorber's 'Sleep Tight, Good Night Man' (US Country #11), the Rodney Crowell gem 'On a Real Good Night' and some vintage Rock gone Country in Gene Clark's 'I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better' and Jagger / Richard's 'The Last Time'. Embellished with two 1983 bonus tracks, this is Bobby Bare at the top of his game.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best, November 9, 2008

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J. K. Olsen - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bare / Sleeper Wherever I Fall (2-For-1) (Audio CD)

I have many Bobby Bare cd's, the bear famely box is one of them. When I played this the other day I was trilled, more than ever before listening to Bobby. These albums are superb,,,often pop music is just too much pop to my taste,,I love good songs, greate lyric, this album is fresh, modern but still very greate lyrichs,

This is by far the best Bobby Bare cd I have heard...

3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Bag, August 23, 2009

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luckyoldsun (New York New York) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bare / Sleeper Wherever I Fall (2-For-1) (Audio CD)

This has a few really good songs, a few bad ones and a lot of in between.

It's worth getting the disc to hear Bobby's great "Going Up's Easy, Coming Down's Hard" and the Bare-ified version of the Rolling Stones "This May Be the Last Time."

And as a bonus, you get to hear Bobby recount an extremely unfortunate encounter with "Big Dupree"--one that makes "Bobby" from "Deliverance" seem lucky--complete with the worst falsetto shrieking ever put on tape.