Today we’d like to introduce you to Bobby Bridger.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I started out as a visual artist, studying painting and sculpture and graduating from Northeast Louisiana State College (now Louisiana University, Monroe) with a degree in Art Education.
While in college playing music in 1963 I performed as a regular guest on a local live television show that launched my musical career. By 1967 I signed with the legendary Monument Records (Roy Orbison, Kris Kristofferson, etc.) in Nashville and truly began my professional music career. I moved to Austin in late 1970 and shortly thereafter signed with E. H. Morris Music in Hollywood as a staff writer, a position which promptly brought me a five-year ten-album contract with RCA Records.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Life itself is a matter of smooth and rough roads. Some are able to transform those aspects of life into art by creating forms of expression that allow others to see themselves in the “smooth and the rough” and everything in between.
I’ve discovered making visual as well as sonic, literary, and theatrical art that some works of art are created absolutely effortlessly, while other works require years of disciplined research and devoted effort. To be able to continue the creative process is the final measure of success; it presents more possibilities to be creative.
Can you tell us more about what you were like growing up?
Normal kids in their 50s. Sold my first painting at age 14 and have been in the arts ever since.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.bobbybridgermusic.com and www.bobbybridgervisualarts.com
- Youtube: Bobby Bridger
Image Credits
Pamala Dore
