Awards
2019 Oklahoma Music Trail Rhythm & Routes Inductee
2017 Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame
2017 Restless Spirit Award
2017-2018 Austin Music Award: Musician of The Year
1995-1996 Austin Music Award: Best Singer-Songwriter
1996 Kerrville Folk Festival Songwriter of the Year
1994-1995 Austin Music Award: Best Singer-Songwriter
1994-1995 Austin Music Award: Best Folk: Jimmy LaFave & The Night Tribe
1988-1989 Austin Music Award: Best Tape for Highway Angels…Full Moon Rain
TV and Film Credits
2021 Stillwater | On The Road To Rock and Roll
2020 Percy | Poor Man’s Dream
2018 Being Rose | Elvis Loved His Mama (written by Bob Childers and John Cooper), Lucky Man
2013 An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story | Whispering Hope (written by Septimus Winner and arranged by Rich Brotherton and Chuck Pinnell)
2008 Sweetwater (Movie)
2007 Californication Season 3, Episode 3 | Not Dark Yet (written by Bob Dylan)
1998 Plan B (Movie) | Hold On
1998 Deep In The Heart (Of Texas) Movie Soundtrack | Austin After Midnight (written by Jimmy LaFave and Bob Childers)
producer credits
2016 These American Blues | Levi Parham | Producer
2015 The Blessing and the Curse | Lance Canales | Producer
2014 I’m The Troubadour | Hal Ketchum | Producer
2014 Looking Into You: A Tribute To Jackson Brown | Co-Producer
2006 Ribbon Of Highway Endless Skyway | Producer
1995 Sing | Abra Moore | Producer
1995 Looking For Higher Ground | Wyckham Porteous | Producer
1979 I Ain’t No Jukebox | Bob Childers | Co-Producer
Songs recorded by other artists
2023 Only One Angel | Scott Evans
2022 Never Is A Moment | Sylvia Kirk, Matt Kirk
2022 Never Is A Moment | Fabio Cobelli
2021 The Beauty of You | Somerisesomefall
2021 Woody Guthrie | Andrea
+ More Songs Credits
2020 Worn Out American Dream | somerisesomefall
2018 Café In The Rain | Radoslav Lorkovic
2018 Never Is A Moment | Richard Douglas Jensen
2018 Only One Angel | Tish Hinojosa
2013 Never Is A Moment | Zucchero
2011 Car Outside | Kevin Dooley
2010 The Price Of Love | Monica Taylor
2009 River Road | Lauren Lee
2009 Hideaway Girl | Mountain Smoke
2007 Red Dirt Roads | Red Dirt Rangers
2007 Melinda Schneider | Heart Of A Woman
2006 Measuring Words | Wiggins Sisters
2004 Give Your Sweet Love To Me | Nancy Dillion
2004 Woody Guthrie | Leftover Salmon
2003 Never Is A Moment | John Wright
2013 Never Is A Moment | Paal Flaata
1999 Never Be Mine | The Burns Sisters
1998 Buffalo Returns | Wil Gravatt Band
1996 Going Home | Piet Veerman
1995 Everytime | Christine Albert
1993 Come Away With Me | Christine Albert (co-write with Christine Albert)
1991 Red Dirt Roads | Will Smokey Logg
1990 Is It Still Raining | Christine Albert
1989 Friend of Mine | Bob Childers on Circles Toward the Sun
Appearances
2018 Laurie MacAllister | Poison and Wine on The Lies The Poets Tell | Vocals
2018 Eliza Gilkyson | Down By The Riverside on Secularia | Vocals
2018 Joel Rafael | Steptone on Appleseeds’s 21st Anniversary – Roots and Branches | Vocals
2018 Jaimee Harris | Red Rescue on Red Rescue | Vocals
+ More Appearances
2017 Lisa Morales | Avalanche on Luna Negra and the Daughter of the Sun | Vocals
2017 Amilia Spicer | Shine on Wow and Flutter | BGV
2015 Amanda Percy | Pawn Shop Gun and A Little Bit More on An Offering | BGV
2015 Gretchen Peters | When You Comin’ Home on Blackbirds | Vocals
2013 Slaid Cleaves | Still Fighting The War on Still Fighting The War | BGV
2012 Catherine Britt | Our Twon on Always Never Enough | BGV
2012 Penny Jo Pullus | When This Battle Is Over on Through The Looking Glass | BGV
2011 Jude Johnstone | I Don’t Wanna Go Home on Quiet Girl | BGV
2010 Monica Taylor | Enjoy The Ride on Cotton Shirt | Verse, BGV
2009 Johnsmith | The Times They Are A-Changin’ on Gravity Of Grace | BGV
2006 Bob Childers | Ride For The Cimarron | BGV
2006 The Burns Sisters | Blue Diamond on Wild Bouquet | BGV
2004 Joel Rafael | Stepstone on Woodyboye: Songs of Woody Guthrie and Tales Worth Telling, Vol. 2 | BGV
2004 Ray O’Hara | On 45 South | BGV
2004 Renee Woodward | All The Birds | I Said (with Jimmy LaFave) BGV
2003 The Kennedys | One Heart One Soul on Life Is Large | BGV
2002 Carl Cacho | Bordertown on Spark | Vocals
2001 Tom Russell | The Road It Gives, the Road It Takes Away On Borderland | BGV
2001 Stephanie Corby | Bluest of Things On Fireworks in March | Vocals
2000 Marie Burns | Dance With The Gypsies from Free Little Bird | BGV
2000 The Burns Sisters | Never Be Mine on Out Of The Blue | Vocals
1999 Bob Childers | Friend Of Mine on Circles Toward The Sun | BGV
1999 Bob Childers | Ragged Red Bandanas on Hat Trick | Vocals
1999 Fabrizio Poggi & Chicken Mambo | Midnight Song on Nuther World | BGV
1999 Two Minute Sinatra | on Evaporate | BGV
1998 The Great Divide | Used To Be on Break in the Storm | 2nd verse, BGV
1997 Ray Wylie Hubbard | If Heaven Is Not A Place To Go on Dangerous Spirits | BGV
1996 Tom Skinner | Years in the Makin' on Times Have Changed | 2nd Verse, BGV
1995 Wyckham Porteous | On Looking For Ground | BGV
1995 Christine Albert | Get You Alone on Underneath The Lone Star Sky | BGV
1995 Jason Eklund | Second Story on Lost Causeway | BGV
1993 Kirt Kempter | Love To Take, Love To Give on Wrinkle In Time | BGV
1993 The Kennedy's | Life is Large | One Heart One Soul | BGV
1979 Bob Childers | Tracks and Traces on I Ain't No Jukebox | Guitar
1979 Bob Childers | Growin' Pains on I Ain't No Jukebox | BGV
1979 Bob Childers | Low Profile on I Ain't No Jukebox | BGV, Washboard
compilations
2017 Blue Rose Nuggests 82 | Buckets Of Rain
2018 Blue Rose Nuggets 91 | Hold On
2016 All ATX - Low Down Violet Crown (All ATX Vol. 4) | As Long As I Can See The Light
2015 Un-Herd Volume 51 | The Beauty Of You
2015 Great Men Of Song | This Land
+ More Compilations
2015 The Rose of Roscrae | Ain't No Cane On The Brazos
2015 1995-2015 20 Years Blue Rose Records Vol. 2 | Buckets Of Rain
2014 Looking Into You: A Tribute To Jackson Browne | For Everyman
2014 The Best Of Kerrville, Vol. 2 | The Open Space
2013 The Beautiful Old Turn-Of-The-Century Songs | Long Time Ago
2013 Woody Guthrie at 100! Live At The Kennedy Center | Hard Travelin’
2013 Maverick Music Vol. 3, Issue 119 | Clear Blue Sky
2011 Blue Highways - The Ultimate Americana Music Fest | Burden To Bear
2011 A Nod To Bob, Vol. 2: Nod To Bob: An Artists’ Tribute to Bob Dylan on His 70th Birthday | Not Dark Yet
2011 Dark River - Songs of the Civil Ear Era: Interpretations by Austin's Finest Musicians | Lorena
2011 Blue Rose Nuggets 48 | The Big Wheels
2001 The Best Of Times | Standing Ground
2011 Hits From The Hill Volume 2 | Before The Next Teardrop Falls
2011 Roots & Rhythms 5 KSUT Four Corners Public Radio | River Road
2008 Our Side Of Town | Hideaway Girl
2008 Broadcast Vol. 16 (KGSR) | Hideaway Girl
2008 Red House 25: A Silver Anniversary Retrospective | Hideaway Girl
2008 Voices of A Great Nation Vol. 1 | This Land
2007 Kerrville Folk Festival: The Best of Kerrville | The Open Space
2007 Austin Music Vol. 6 | River Road
2006 Viva! Terlingua! Nuevo!: Songs of Luckenbach Texas | I’ll Be Here In The Morning
2006 Mijn Nuziek | When It Starts To Rain
2005 Don’t Mess With Texas Music, Vol. 3 | Austin After Midnight
2005 These Times We're Living In: A Red House Anthology | River Road
2005 Finding The Cure | This Glorious Day
2005 Blue Rose Nuggets 15 | Into Your Live
2004 Rush’s 2004 Christmas Collection | Silent Night
2004 Live!...From Folk Radio WUMB | Love Minus Zero No Limits
2003 Best of the Kerrville Folk Festival, Vol. 1 | When The Tears Fall Down
2003 Best of the Kerrville Folk Festival, Vol. 2 | The Open Space
2003 30 Jaar Hubert On The Air | Minstrel Boy Howling At The Moon
2003 Blue Rose Nuggets 3 | Home Sweet Oklahoma
2002 Kerrville Folk Festival Highlights | When The Tears Fall Down
2003 The Great Stupa | This Glorious Day
2002 The Reel Austin Vol. 1 | Only One Angel
2002 Kerrville Folk Festival: The Silverwolf Years | When The Tears Fall Down
2002 Americana: The Very Best of New American Music | The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress
2001 Fish Out Of Water 2: Coming Up For Air | Buffalo Return To The Plains
2001 Dudly & Bob Show – Damn It’s 2 Early | Never Is A Moment
2001 Broadcasts Vol. 9 (KGSR) | Never Is A Moment
2001 Music That Moves You | This Glorious Day
2001 More Songs of Route 66: Roadside Attractions | Oklahoma Hills
2001 Mixed Grill A Collection of Austin Music Volume One | Never Is A Moment
2001 Mr. Music Country 9/2001 | Oklahoma Hills
2000 Texas Songwriters – Recorded Live at Kerrville | The Open Space
2000 Travelin’ Texas | Walking Away
2000 Best of Frutigen | Thru The Neon Night
2000 Fish Out Of Water: Music Outside The Mainstream | The Open Road
1999 Americana Road Warriors | Ellie’s Song
1999 Broadcasts Vol. 7 (KGSR) | Burden To Bear
1998 Viva Americana | Only One Angel
1998 KUT 90.5FM LiveSet: On Air Volume | Meet Me In The Morning
1998 Stranger Than Fiction | It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
1998 Stranger Than Fiction | Happy Birthday, Mitzi Gaynor
1998 Fitger’s Best of The Brewhouse Vol. 1 | Every Grain of Sand
1998 Deep In The Heart (Of Texas) Soundtrack | Austin After Midnight
1997 Audio CD 35 | Long Ago With Miles Between
1997 The New Country Collection Volume 4 Number 5 | Heart Of A Woman
1997 Blue Rose Collection | You’ll Never Know
1997 Auto CD-3 | You’ll Never Know
1997 Mi Vida (My Life) | Going Home
1995 Time Is On Our Side | Oklahoma Hills
1995 Sunday Morning Sessions | Minstrel Boy Howling At The Moon
1995 The Songs of Route 66: Music From The All American Highway | Route 66 Revisited
1995 Austin Music Sampler | Never Be Mine
1995 Happy Holidays From Xlent | Never Be Mine
1995 Mr. Music Country 9/95 | Come Away With Me with Christine Albert
1995 Ride The Wave of Roots Music: Rounder's Summer Sampler | Burden To Bear
1995 Kerrville Folk Festival 1995 Highlights | When The Tears Fall Down
1994 Pastures Of Plenty: An Austin Celebration of Woody | This Land Is Your Land
1994 New Country | The Open Road
1994 Broadcasts Vol. 2 (KGSR) | When The Tears Fall
1994 Roundup The Usual Suspects: The Roundup CD Sampler Summer 1994 | Desperate Men Do Desperate Things
1994 Polderpop Top 30 Volume 31 | The Open Road
1993 KLBJ FM’s Local Licks Live 1992 | Five Long Years
The Frontier of Country Vol. One | Buffalo Return To The Plains
Terry's Next Stop Red Bank Lincroft's Joan's Place | When It Starts To Rain
Looking West Songs For The Storyteller In Stone | Buffalo Return To The Plains
The Best of The Mansion Volume One | Only One Angel
Songs From Joan’s Place | I Wish For You
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