Bob Collum

Go West, young man, the cry went up of ages past. And they did. Except for one guy, who went East. And that’s Bob Collum, who in trading the prairies for the less fetching plains of Britain’s surly southeast. has brought to these shores a tasty, tasteful taste of the music that both he and his native Tulsa, Oklahoma, call home.

In Tulsa, though, where everything is big as all outdoors – even indoors – nothing is done small, so on top of his power-pop influenced take on country music Bob has loaded, in a style akin to that of a pioneer with more cargo than wagon, about every last influence likely to be tried by a feller with a taste for audio adventure.

At the end of the 20th century millions of migrants swarmed America, looking for a better life, freedom, land, that kind of thing. Fast forward a hundred years and some change and one pilgrim name of Collum reverse the trend, arriving on Airstrip One just as the Millennium Bug bites and a troubled but excited world awaited a new hundred and got plenty: a reinvigorated B.C. bent on building upon the fantastic foundation of his first two albums and the formation of a new band.

Even now, with his band, Bob & Co. – Paul, Nev and Allan to you – are constructing the musical framework for Bob's sixth album, that will succeed and excel a series of cult hits that began with ‘97’s More Tragic Songs Of Life.

People Who Have Played After Bob

Bob Has supported many artist including: Dave Alvin, Ron Sexsmith, Handsome Family, John Wesley Harding, Robbie Fulks, Hot Club of Cowtown, The Arlenes, Marshall Crenshaw, Peter Case, Nikki Sudden, Greg Trooper, Alejandro Escovedo, The Deadstring Brothers, Danny George Wilson, Ben Weaver, Amy Rigby, and Robert Earle Keen.

Places That Bob has Played

South By Southwest Festival - Austin TX, Cambridge Folk Festival - Cambridge UK, Beyond Nashville Festival - London, UK , The Cavern - Liverpool, UK , 12 Bar Club, London, UK Schuba’s - Chicago IL, Fitzgerald’s - Chicago IL, Cain’s Ballroom - Tulsa, OK, The Blue Door -Oklahoma City, OK

Discography

Releases: Twisted Rhymes & Mixed Up Lines - 2009 Set The Stupid Free - 2008 The Boy Most Likely To… - 2004 Low Rent Romeo - 2001 More Tragic Songs Of Life - 1997

Gareth Davis

Nevil Kiddier

Paul Quarry

Allan J. Kelly

Long time squeeze box player with the The BonTemps Playboys, Allan is now playing steel guitar for Bob Collum and also The Rosellys.