Music

With chanteuse June Joplin, Bob performs classics from the Great American Song Book in the cabaret duo Me and Bobby McGee. Regular guests at a variety of northern Nevada venues, in August 2009 the pair performed for the fourth consecutive year at the annual Carson City jazz festival;
Bob’s first musical, The Song of Three Friends, garnered the praise of Richard Kiley, the original “Man of La Mancha,” but ultimately went unproduced. His second, the cabaret revue I Say Nevada!, had a successful and much-praised run at Carson City’s Brewery Arts Center in November 2008;
A self-taught piano player, Bob is at home in most non-classical genres–pop, gospel, country, jazz, blues, rock ‘n’ roll. He is a veteran of scores of solo gigs at dinner parties, weddings, grand openings, melancholy closings, and a rich variety of Nevada restaurants and saloons, as well as the keyboard player with the oldies band Moonlight Express;
Bob directed the Second Sunday Band at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Carson City from 1997 to 2005. He has adapted some of the music he wrote while at St. Peter’s and added new material to produce an hour-long pop-gospel-blues mass based on the traditional Episcopal Eucharist. He plans to premiere the work, which he calls The Bristlecone Mass, in 2010.

A Place in My Heart Called Nevada

June Joplin, vocals

Brad Lund, bass and vocals

Herbie Weihskopf, drums

Dale Poune, guitar

Bobby McGee, piano

Post-Parting Depression

Craig Fletcher, vocals, guitar,
and percussion

Bobby McGee, keyboards

All songs © 2008 by Bobby McGee

This is No Masquerade

June Joplin, vocals

Bobby McGee, piano

No Kisses, Please

June Joplin, vocals

Bobby McGee, piano

• He is the composer of “A Place in My Heart Called Nevada,” a popular candidate to replace “Home Means Nevada” as the State Song of Nevada. In 2006, President Jimmy Carter’s son Jack chose “A Place in My Heart” as his theme song in his bid for the United States Senate. (Carter lost; Bob insists it wasn’t his fault.) With fellow band members in the oldies band Moonlight Express, Bob had the honor of performing the song for President Carter, and, shortly thereafter, the thrill of opening for Stephen Stills at a Jack Carter rally at Comma Coffee in Carson City;