There's An 18 Wheeler In Front Of The Ritz Hotel - Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein, plus by Bear Family Records® published on 2020-07-24T09:39:56Z Bare, Bobby: Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein plus (8-CD Deluxe Box Set) 8-CD Box-Set (LP-size) with 128-page hardcover book, 137 tracks. Total playing time approx. 8 hrs (476:39) 8 CDs with 137 tracks including 28 previously unreleased recordings. Bobby Bare's interpretations of more than a hundred Shel Silverstein songs. Classic sides from 1972 - 1983 incl. six complete albums. Shel Silverstein wrote hits like Sylvia’s Mother and A Boy Named Sue (made famous by Johnny Cash). The live album Great American Saturday Night (unreleased at the time) is expanded here with 3 tracks. 128-page, LP-sized hardcover book with a 2020 Hank Davis interview with Bobby Bare about his friendship with Shel Silverstein, complete lyrics transcriptions, and detailed sessions discography. Includes a new essay by Dave Samuelson about Shel Silverstein and his multi-faceted work. Among Silverstein's wry sagas about winners, losers, and lonely all-night cafés, you'll discover charming children's songs and touching, affectionate love ballads. A complicated man, that Silverstein. If most people associate the late Shel Silverstein with his children's literature, others remember his cartoons and graphic travelogues for 'Playboy.' By contrast, relatively few recognize this Chicago native as a prolific songwriter, penning such hits as Johnny Cash's A Boy Named Sue, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show's The Cover Of Rolling Stone, Loretta Lynn's One's On The Way, and The Irish Rovers' The Unicorn. He also wrote Put Another Log On The Fire, Tompall Glaser's memorable showcase on 'Wanted! The Outlaws,' country music's first platinum-selling album. Genre Country