While Bobby Bare Jr., scion of country music legend Bobby Bare Sr., cant claim to have never ridden his famous fathers coattails after all, he was nominated for a Grammy for a duet with the old man by and large hes staked out his very own territory on the musical landscape. To wit: the Nashville-Bare Jr. was only 5 years-old when he recorded that Grammy-nominated duet, and his first two albums, Boo-Tay and Brainwasher (credited to his band, Bare Jr.), owed more to punk, indie and Southern rock than straight-up-country. And although both 2002s Young Criminals Starvation League 2004s From the End of Your Leash found Bare moving a little closer to singer-songwriter-driven rootsy fare, 2006s The Longest Meow featured the restless artist diving headlong into some of the most rockin performances of his career.