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Grammy, CMA, and ACM nominee Bobby Tomberlin hails from Luverne, AL. At 11 years of age he began working in country radio and began to develop a love for its music and interviewed legends Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Keith Whitley and many others. After high school, Bobby moved to Muscle Shoals, Al where he worked in radio, started writing songs and was roommates with Shenendoah drummer Mike McGuire. In 1990 Bobby moved to Nashville to focus on a career as a writer when Mel Tillis gave him his first publishing contract. Bobby also wrote for Reba McEntires company and spent four years as Grand Ole Opry Star Bill Andersons sound engineer. Bobby has had great success including the Top 10 single by Darryl Worley, "A Good Day To Run" as well as singles by Chely Wright, Diamond Rio, Ty Herndon,Linda Davis, Russ Taff and Lee Greenwood. Bobbys songs have received 8 BMI awards and he co-wrote the number 1 country and Top 5 AC single and CMA, ACM, and Grammy nominated One More Day and also co-authored the inspirational book by the same name. "One More Day" has recieved over 3 million radio performances according to BMI. Bobbys songs have been included on numerous Gold and Platinum projects including the recent double platinum Faith Hill CD "Fireflies", the gold CD "Everything is Fine by Josh Turner and the platinum CD by Rodney Atkins "If You're Going Through Hell".
Other artists whom have cut his songs include Terri Clark, Kenny Rogers, Joe Nichols, Josh Turner, Faith Hill, Rodney Atkins, Joe Diffie, Eddy Arnold, Billy Dean, Little Jimmy Dickens, Deana Carter, the Oak Ridge Boys, Porter Wagoner, Chris Young and many others. His songs have been on eight Diamond Rio albums. Bobbys song "Its Out There" co-written and recorded by Amy Dalley will be featured in an upcoming Universal film starring Sienna Miller.
Bobby Tomberlin works with such diverse writers as Mac Davis, Rivers Rutherford, Steve Dorff, Bill Anderson, Paul Overstreet, Andrew Dorff,Brenda Lee, Hilary Williams,Steven Dale Jones, Phil Everly, Josh Turner, Porter Wagoner,Steve Wariner and Marv Green. Bobby is a regular guest on the Steve Dorff and Friends songwriter show with performances in the past year in Monterey, Salt Lake City, Miami, Santa Barbara, Muscle Shoals, San Diego, Nashville and Los Angeles. In the past year Bobby has performed numerous times at the Bluebird Cafe,at the Flordia State Fair in Tampa on a Grand Ole Opry package show, at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Awards in Mobile, the Alabama Broadcasters Association Convention in Perdido, was part of Grammys on the Hill in Washington D.C., the Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree, performed in Billings, Atlanta and many other venues. Bobby recently took part in the Faith Hill Fireflies TV taping. Bobby also recently appeared in an episode of the Bad Girls Club TV show on the Oxygen Network. Bobby has been featured on other TV shows including a segment of Grand Ole Opry Backstage. Bobby also does voiceover work and his voice can be heard on recent DVD projects for Micheal McDonald, Peter Frampton, Trace Adkins and the B52s. Bobby just completed an interview with Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers at Capitol Records Studio Hollywood that is featured on DVD in conjunction with a new CD release. Bobby writes on guitar and has been signed to Mike Curb Music for the past 12 years.
Check out an excerpt from an interview that I did with Bill Medley at Capitol Records Hollywood promoting his new project, "Damn Near Righteous".
The book I co-authored with Steven Dale Jones and Diamond Rio, based on our song "One More Day."
