About bobminner

BOB MINNER – Since 1993 Acoustic guitar, dobro, banjo

I grew up in Missouri and started playing banjo when I was five; my first professional gig was playing at the opening of a carpet store when I was ten, and I played bluegrass banjo and electric guitar through high school. In the late ‘80s I was doing forty weeks a year playing Holiday Inns and country saloons with a band that included a drummer named Randy Davis, whose dad, Gene Davis, is a really big West Coast country music pioneer. Around 1990, Randy left the band to move to Nashville; a few months later my wife and I visited Nashville for a few days and stayed with Randy and his roommate, who was Tim. Tim was just pluggin’ around town; he didn’t even have a demo yet, but he definitely had the charisma. My wife said, “If that guy ever does anything, he’ll be a star.” He definitely had the charisma back then. We came off the road when my wife had our first son, and Tim was calling me asking me to do these club dates with him and Randy, but I’d already committed to a day job retreading tires, so I stuck with that. That’s when Tim found Darran and hired him. I didn’t enjoy retreading tires much, and one day I flipped on CMT and saw Tim’s first video, “Welcome to the Club.” So I called him and told him that I also played acoustic, and he hired me.