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The
Cumberland River runs straight through the center of beautiful downtown.
Nashville, also known as Music City, is the birthplace of Bob Moore.
Born poor and raised on the East side of the river in the 1930’s,
the east Nashville boy showed a very early interest in music. His
grandmother’s Victrola shows the teeth marks at the top where
Bob, although barely out of diapers, would pull himself up and hang
over the edge while supported by his hands and teeth and watch the
records go round and round. Saturday evenings were spent by the
radio listening to the Grand Ol’ Opry. By the time he was 10
years old, Bob was doing guest spots singing and playing guitar
on WSIX‘s "Goober and the Kentuckians" show.
During
the 1940’s there were many Paratroopers in Nashville. On weekends,
they would come by in droves from Fort Campbell to see the Grand
Ol’ Opry at the Ryman Auditorium. So when Bob was nine years
old he took a mind to build a shoe shine kit. He would walk up town
and set up right across the street from the Ryman to shine Paratroopers
boots for a nickel. Bob Moore kept an ever-watchful eye on the back
stage door as if he knew what his future held. It was there, just
outside the Grand Ol’ Opry, that, at the age of twelve, Bob
was shining the cowboy boots of Ernest Tubb’s Bass player,
Jack Drake. Bob would worry Jack to death asking him every question
he could think of about the Bass. Jack took special care in teaching
young Bobby how to tune a Bass and the proper way to pull a Bass
string, etc. Jack didn’t know that he had set in motion the
career of the greatest all around Bassist that has ever lived.
Bobby
Moore's professional career really began in 1947 when the tall blond
Fifteen year old hit the road playing guitar and stand-up bass backing
the black-face tent show band Jamup and Honey. He was then asked
to join Paul Howard’s Western Swing Band which was loaded with
top young Opry musicians and was considered to be the best band
around. Road work filled the next few years as Little Jimmy Dickens
original band, Cowboy Copas, Curly Fox and Texas Ruby, Flatt and
Scruggs, Andy Griffith and Eddy Arnold created a constant demand
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26 NOV 2007
LEGENDARY BASSIST BOB MOORE TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE NASHVILLE MUSICIANS
HALL OF FAME
Click here for full press release at:
Musicians
Hall of Fame amd Museum
.First Annual Induction Ceremony held by the Musicians Hall of
Fame to be held at the Schermerhorn Symphony Hall on November 26,
2007. Inductees include The NASHVILLE A-TEAM, (Bob Moore, Buddy
Harman, Hank Garland, Pig Robbins, Grady Martin, Ray Edenton, Boots,
etc.) The Memphis Boys (Reggie Young, Bobby Wood, Gene Chrisman
etc.) The BLUE MOON BOYS (Scotty Moore & DJ Fontana) The Los
Angeles Wrecking Crew, The Funk Brothers. Program includes live
appearences by Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Peter Frampton and many MANY
others. (Yes, Garth Brooks will be performing Live and in Person)
This is a once in a lifetime, NOT-TO-BE-MISSED event! Tickets $50
are available at: www.nashvillesymphony.org |
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