Bobby Pinson Net Worth

How much is Bobby Pinson worth?

Net Worth:$1 Million
Profession:Professional Singer
Date of Birth:August 10, 1972
Country:United States of America
Height:
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About Bobby Pinson

Bobby Olen Pinson was born on August 10, 1972 and is an American country music artist with an estimated net worth of $1 million. Bobby Pinson made his debut that year with his album Man Like Me, in 2005. Born of triumph and tragedy, Bobby Pinson’s songs embody the power and integrity to take them across the width of today’s musical landscape. Political statements, personal mantras, real-life situations, and the examination of the human condition all find a place in Bobby’s diverse material.

American country music artist Bobby Pinson has an estimated net worth of $1 million dollars, as of 2023. Pinson’s most popular song so far is “Don’t Ask Me How I Know”.

When the panhandle Texan sings of who he is, where he’s been, and at what cost, his photographic voice rings with gritty truth. “I’ve been wrong enough to know what right is,” says Pinson of his life that’s so vividly depicted in the music that he affectionately calls “Gutter and Grace.”

Kick yourself for stumblin’ but never leave your feet
Lie awake with your mistakes and find peace piece by piece
Pray that you wake up as who you want to be
That’s how you make a man like me

“A John Deere tractor with an airplane engine” best describes Bobby’s explosive mixture of country roots, rock ‘n’ roll energy and down-to-earth lyrics that springs from his heart.

Bobby’s the son of a high school football coach and an elementary school teacher who “grew up fifty miles past the middle of nowhere in the land of wind and dirt where football was life, Dad was boss, and Christ was King.” Raised in a string of small Texas towns, the perennial new kid learned that you immediately had to find a connection with somebody, while at the same time having almost a blatant disregard for what they thought. “You had to figure out what mattered to them, and at the same time, have a real strong sense of what mattered to you,” says Pinson. “I think that’s why my music is what it is.”

“I lived in these towns without radio. The one trucker station we could get faded in and out, then off at midnight. I wasn’t allowed to go to any concerts and I never bought many records. Not that I was deprived, I just did other things. I’d sing around the house and play my Dad’s guitar, but my musical influences didn’t really come until later in my life.”

Pinson credits artist songwriter greats Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Bruce Springsteen, and Steve Earle with influencing that high school boy who is thirteen years into a career that’s just now surfaced. Though he attributes his “first three chords” to his dad and his early interest in songwriting to his grandpa, Pinson’s first fascination with rhyme was found on the pages of famed children’s poet, Shel Silverstein.

Bobby started reading Silverstein’s poetry and prose in elementary school. He competed in the Texas Universal Interscholastic League (UIL) storytelling and writing contests. “Like in the third grade, they would pick three kids out of each school, get them in a classroom and read them a story. They would call your name and you would have to tell that story back in three minutes. The child with the most descriptive story and most animated performance won. As you get older, it’s poetry, prose, extemporaneous speaking, then dramatic interpretation – where you take a piece and play out all the characters – you’re reading, but you’re also acting it out with your voice. That’s where I learned I was pretty naturally animated. Over the years, I have incorporated those storytelling skills into my singing style and stage presence. “

Bobby started writing songs the summer he graduated from high school, though he admits he got off to a rough start. “I sent one of my songs to one of those places I saw in a magazine just before I went into the Army. The only piece of mail I got during basic training was a letter from that magazine rejecting my song.”

“I spent my last year in the Army closing down Fort Ord. I would sing at each battalion’s closing ceremony as they relocated one by one to Fort Lewis, Washington. I was one of the last hundred soldiers on Fort Ord. My band would come on post and we’d rehearse in an old abandoned mess hall. And we sounded like it.”

“I’m Fine Either Way” (Bobby Pinson/Jeremy Spillman)
I’ve always said that: “I’m fine either way.” It’s like saying, “Whatever.” I wrote this song reflecting on several different situations in my life where I was faced with standing my ground regardless of consequence. I was never known as a troublemaker, but it was never my nature to just say, “OK, let’s just get along” no matter what. I’d say, “OK, I’d to get along, but we don’t have to.” I think having moved so many times from town to town, I learned over the years how to readjust, while at the same time never losing sight of who I was and what I stood for. I’ve taken a couple of award-winning “butt-whoopins,” but I’ve never been famous for backing down. Fortunately, I’ve calmed down over the years, but I’ve always looked at it like “I hope you’ll like me-maybe you won’t, I’M FINE EITHER WAY.”

“Nothin’ Happens In This Town” (Bobby Pinson/Jeremy Spillman)
This song is kind of like “Shadows of the Heartland” on alcohol—it’s the rebel kid, three years later. (Same setting, but with louder music and higher auto-insurance.) I was never the high school party animal that would drive twenty miles to a wet county and hope he found someone old enough to buy him beer, but I rode some roads with those who did. I never hung out of the passenger side window and took aim at the city limit sign, but I lived in a town with the population of two thousand, two hundred and twenty-two and two “twenty-two” bullet holes. There are a lot of great people who have come from small towns, there are a lot of great people that stayed there. I think they’ll all tell you that the charm of a small town is the stuff that goes on when there’s nothing going on.

“One More Believer” (Bobby Pinson/Jim McBride)
A crooked road doesn’t seem crooked when you’re on it. It’s not until you get to a high point in your life where you can turn and look back on those questionable miles you traveled and realize how far you strayed from the straight and narrow. I’d had a couple years there where if “It Happened” in a bar on Music Row, I either knew about it or caused it. It was usually B. I walked out of a club one night and there, in the middle of the street, I met a woman who made me not care if I ever stepped foot in one of those places again. It turned into a “real long hello,” then I married her. This song is me standing on a hill, closing my eyes, taking a deep breath and saying, “Thank you, God, for seeing me even when I wasn’t worth looking at.”

“Don’t Ask Me How I Know” (Bobby Pinson, Bart Butler, Brett Jones)
That nine year old’s Evel Knievel scar that’s still on my thirty-two-year-old ankle found its place among the many scars and sketches of “Don’t Ask Me How I Know.” I was three years old when my Momma drove thirteen miles back into town and gave me three pennies to pay for that piece of bubble gum that I had eternally borrowed from the check-out counter. I try to write songs that are true to life, based not only on personal experience, but mere observation. I’m just the conduit for the emotion. I’m fortunate not to have lived every situation in this song, but to disclose what’s true and what’s not, well, that would be “letting out the magic.”

“Man Like Me” (Bobby Pinson/Kris Bergsnes/Charlie Moore)
If I could only put one song on my album it would be “Man Like Me.” I came up with the very first line, and then I rattled it off, almost like a chant. I remember that it felt like the song was giving instructions, and I stopped and said, “one thing I want to make sure is that when we’re doing this, we’re not preaching.” The last verse of the song -“kick yourself for stumbling but never leave your feet, lie awake with your mistakes and find peace piece by piece” – is probably my favorite thing I’ve ever written.

“Started a Band” (Bobby Pinson/Matt Rossi)
During those years of trying to get a record deal and failing miserably, I was told several times that I should start a band and try to get a record deal that way. One small problem: I wasn’t a band. I was one guy who wrote songs and sang them. It was that simple. I finally got tired of the useless advice and I wrote “Started a Band” as a joke. No artist in their right mind would sing the last verse of this song, so I sang it! If you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

Pinson, Brantley Gilbert, Blake Chaffin also co-wrote Brantley Gilbert’s single “The Ones That Like Me”, in 2017. As of 2023, Bobby Pinson’s net worth is estimated to be $1 million. He has actually written a number of singles for other artists, including four Number One hits for Toby Keith and another four for Sugarland.

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