Bobby

“Bobby Jr. was really pumped over doing this,” says Bare in his matter-of-fact drawl. “He was the driving force behind it.” Yes, he’s talking about his son—the son whose five-year-old voice helped make the Shel Silverstein confection “Daddy What If” a left-field hit in 1973—and the artist widely known to the indie rock world as Bobby Bare Jr’s Young Criminals Starvation League., a musical iconoclast who has more in common with his father than their surface sounds would suggest. Bobby Jr., working with his trusted friend, producer/engineer Mark Nevers (Lambchop),