Bobby is one of the most highly regarded songwriters in the music industry.  His name brings about awe from young songwriter hopefuls and respect from his peers.  He has been crafting songs professionally for nearly four decades, with success in each.  Bobby is a member of the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame, he has written 13 number one hits and has received 29 BMI performance awards to date.  If you were to ask almost any country music fan to name either their top five favorite country songs of all time, or five songs they consider to be country music standards, there is more than a good chance that Bobby wrote one of them.  From D-I-V-O-R-C-E, to what is widely regarded as the greatest country song of all time, He Stopped Loving Her Today, Bobby has graced the world with timeless classics.  And the best part is that he is still cranking them out.

Awards

To date Bobby has won an amazing 29 BMI Performance Awards which are based on number of plays per year for a certain song.  Bobby has also received 4 BMI million-air awards which are given to the writer's of songs that have been played in excess of 1 million times on the radio.

Old Flames Have New Names  1 Million airs. Co-written with Rafe Van Hoy.  Hit for Mark Chestnutt

Time Marches On  1 Million airs. Hit for Tracy Lawrence.

Texas Tornado 1 Million airs. Hit for Tracy Lawrence.

He Stopped Loving Her Today  2 Million airs. Co-written with Curly Putman.  Hit for George Jones.

The Producer

Bobby discovered Blake Shelton after hearing him sing on a demo tape. 

Soon afterward Blake had a production deal with Sony/ Tree which led to a Major Record Deal.  His first album, which Bobby produced, has certified gold, having shipped 500,000 copies.  Bobby also produced Blake's second album the Dreamer, which spawned the hits The Baby & Playboys of the Southwestern World.  Bobby's latest production efforts on Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill have already produced a multi-week #1 Some Beach and the latest single Goodbye Time is currently racing up the charts.  Barn & Grill was certified Gold in June 2005.