category: instrumental country / pop / easy listening

Bobby Gibson, has played music since childhood. There were several musicians in the family, on both sides. His mother and father both played the guitar. So, there was a guitar around since day one. He played his first job for money at the age of 11, for three dollars. The old barn is still standing to this day. His uncle George on his mothers side played the banjo, and the mandolin. His uncles, on his fathers side, played guitar, and grandpa Gibson played the banjo. So it was inevitable. Bobby played in many local bands in The Portland, Oregon area, including playing casual gigs with Willie Nelson while he was a DJ on KVAN radio in Vancouver Washington.

In the early sixties, Bobby then moved on to the Los Angeles area for about a year, appearing on shows such as Town Hall Party, the Cousin Herb Henson show in Bakersfield. At that time Merle Haggard was at the Blackboard. It was then that he ran into a life long hero, Roy Nichols. They use to trade licks, as most guitar players will do when they have idle time. From California, Bobby moved on to Springfield, Mo., spending about a year playing on KWTO radio with Slim Wilson and the gang doing the morning radio show, selling Martha White Flour, and giving the price of farm goods. During that stay, Bobby appeared on the Ozark Jubilee, Starring Red Foley, as did many of the up and coming artist of the future. Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee, Leroy VanDyke, Jim Reeves, and many others. It was at that time he played guitar for Bobby Lord, opening for Johnny Cash.

Jim Reeves had asked Bobby and his then wife, Carla Rowe, to move to Nashville to work in his band. He turned Jim down over fifty dollars a week. So, instead of moving to Nashville he eventually moved back to Vancouver Washington, and built Ripcord Recording Studios. Ripcord became one of the Premier studios in the area It still operates today under a different name. Bobby is still active today, demonstrating guitars for many companies. and appears regularly in Nashville, at the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society (CAAS), in July, and the NAMM shows in Anaheim, Calif., In January and Nashville in July. Bobby is available for shows, guitar clubs etc.

CD Track Listing

  1. HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART (B.Gibb / R.Gibb) (2:44)
  2. CANADIAN SUNSET (Heywood / Gimbel) (4:21)
  3. THE LASY IS A TRAMP (Rodgers / Hart) (1:58)
  4. NEW YORK, NEW YORK (Austin Grooms) (2:47)
  5. JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (Billy Joel) (2:14)
  6. GIRL FROM IMPANEMA (Jobim / Moreas / Gimbel) (2:40)
  7. PENNIES FROM HEAVEN (Johnny Burke) (2:04)
  8. TIE A YELLOW RIBBIN 'ROUND THE OLE OAK TREE (Levine / Brown) (3:54)
  9. SPANISH EYES (Rosa / Child) (5:16)
10. HOLIDAY FOR STRINGS (David Rose) (1:42)

Total timing: 30:27

Label/No: Bossaxe Records

Release date: 2004