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

2025 Buffalo Return to the Plains | Jason Boland & The Stragglers

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

+ More Songs Credits

2021 Woody Guthrie | Andrea

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 Live From FitzGerald's | Never Is A Moment

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