Pitchfork: Bobby Bare Jr. Produces Bobby Bare Sr.

Do you want new wave or do you want the truth? Because despite much hype to the contrary, 2005 isn't just the year post-punk re-broke. It's also the year of the country revival in indie rock. First Conor Oberst got Emmylou Harris to sing on I'm Wide Awake It's Morning by tricking her (and some of the rest of us) into thinking he was Gram Parsons. Then Will Oldham dropped some Brad Paisley during his Intonation DJ set, Ryan Adams rediscovered his twangy roots, Cat Power went down to Memphis to get her honky tonk on, and hipster hero Willie Nelson released that album with the pot leaf on the cover and appeared as Uncle Jesse (Duke, not Katsopolis) in Jessica Simpson's tasteful, understated film debut, The Dukes of Hazzard.

Now, Willie's former roommate, country legend Bobby Bare, is making a comeback. The singer/songwriter/producer/businessman/Grammy Award winner will release The Moon Was Blue November 1 on Dualtone, his first full-length since his 1983 collaboration with Shel Silverstein, Drinkin' From the Bottle, Singin' From the Heart.

Produced by his son, alt-country mainstay Bobby Bare Jr., and Lambchop's Mark Nevers, The Moon Was Blue incorporates some of the alt-rock quirks the young Bare uses with his own group, Young Criminals' Starvation League. (We assure you that the YCSL is a band and not a PAC endorsing a new form of capital punishment.) The result is, according to Bare's website, "a progressive country album, rooted in a 70s retro tradition." Does that mean it's going to sound like the new My Morning Jacket album?

Bobby Jr. lured Papa Bare away from the fishing poles he picked up after Nashville went slick in the early �80s by securing his father a record contract himself, monumentally one-upping those of us who usually just get Dad a tie.

Tracklist:

01 Are You Sincere
02 I Am An Island
03 Everybody's Talkin' At Me
04 Yesterday When I Was Young
05 Love Letters In The Sand
06 Lucy Jordan
07 My Heart Cries For You
08 It's All In The Game
09 Harvest Moon
10 Easy To Forget
11 Fellow Travelers

"Are You Sincere" will appear in Quentin Tarantino's next film, Daltry Calhoun, further contributing to the country star's comeback, and hopefully inspiring a Bare/RZA collaboration entitled Bobby Bare Digital. Yee-haw, motherfuckers.