Bobby Bare - Me & McDill / Sleeper Wherever I Fall / Bare / Down & DirtyTwo CD set containing a quartet of digitally remastered albums by the country music legend. From 1977, 1978 and 1980 come four Bobby Bare albums, one originally on RCA and the others recorded for Columbia. All four made the US Country charts. These recordings come from a time when Bare changed direction away from the pure country and embraced contemporary writers such as Townes Van Zandt, J. J. Cale and Guy Clark. Sleeper contains contributions from

and almost haunting in their pastiche of the past

Clube da Esquina and Dori Caymmi

with his records encompassing the spectrum of pop and R&B styles

it is not achieved by staring fearfully in awe at the manuscript

after years of work

big band music

" (Petr Skalka

hallucinogenic lyrical content and superb songwriting

" (Rob Barnett / MusicWeb International)

Coral and Dot labels during the quarter-century from the late 30s right through to the early '60s

Remington Steele)

as well as some operas by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky - they form for me the elixir of life that always fires my imagination