BOBBY DeMOSS

Bobby DeMoss - Pedal Steel Guitar performer.

Bobby comes from a musical family.  Both his parents played with bands around the Kansas City area, as well as his two sisters.  When Bobby was around 6 years old he was watching the drummer in his sisters’ all-girl band.  She was pretty good. He decided he wanted to become a band drummer, so he got together three empty Crisco containers with the plastic lids and tied them together with some rubber bands. For drum sticks he got two of his dad’s welding rods, and every time the band practiced he would play along with his new drum set. After observing this a few times, his dad decided that maybe the drum set that was on sale at Western Auto was a good future investment for developing his new-found talent. Well, he wound up playing drums all over town for 18 years with such groups as the Midwesterners, Missouri Valley Boys, and Larry Goodwin. 

He began to look for other ways of musical expression and took up bass guitar.  He played bass professionally for about six years on the country circuit performing with many Kansas City area bands, as well as backing several Nashville artists such as Faron Young and Nat Stucky. 

During his six years as a bassist, Bobby was also learning steel guitar and discovered that steel guitar was what he wanted to play all along.  He started attending all of Jeff Newman’s steel guitar seminars and learning all he could as quickly as he could.

Bobby has played pedal steel guitar with many Kansas City area bands and artists such as Jimmy Lynn and the Jokers, Larry Goodwin, Last Chance, Uptown Country Band, Goldrush, Clayton Howerton and the Western All Stars, The Tuna Boat Band, Carlene Hall and the 61 Country Band, Breakin New Ground, Bill Boswell and the Border Line Band and too many others to list.  Bobby has also backed such artists as Freddy Fender, Vern Gosden, Johnny Rodriguez, Johnny Lee, Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius, and Barbara Fairchild to name a few.

Bobby has performed on several opry shows such as the Cass County Opry, Northtown Opry, Glen’s Opry, The Sundowners Country Music Show and now at the Middle Creek Opry Show.  He has been asked to go on the road with such artists as Connie Smith and Joe Diffy and received many awards for best band and top 25 musicians in the area.

Bobby and his wife, Rita, have been married for 22 years and have a daughter, Lisa, 20, who is currently attending college.

Bobby has owned and operated three recording studios and operated a live sound company around the Kansas City area. They were American Star Audio, Heartland Recording, Stone River Productions, and has his own  record label, GSA Records. He has engineered and recorded many local bands and entertainers. He has completed many albums to his credit. He works as a supervisor for a large national product service company and continues to play and record music wherever and whenever needed.

Bobby continues to love God, his Family, Electronics and Music.

Bobby says, “Right now I am performing with the finest musicians ever, and I am enjoying all the top notch musical talent and just plain outright fun.  Bill and Brenda are the best and so are the rest of the folks out here at the Opry.   This show is a keeper, and if you haven’t been out to see it, you need to because you’re going to have to go all the way to Branson to see anything even close to this one…just outrageous talent.”