Bonnie Bishop is a country rock

Country rock

Country rock is sub-genre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock with country. The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds; reaching its greatest...

 singer-songwriter from Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, who grew up in Houston, and moved from Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

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, to Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

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, in 2007. In 2008, she performed at the Austin City Limits Music Festival

Austin City Limits Music Festival

The Austin City Limits Music Festival is an annual three-day American music festival that takes place in Austin, Texas at the city's central public park, Zilker Park...

. Her single "Sweet on the Down Low" was on the Texas music charts for more than six months.

Classically trained, Bishop had previously considered pursuing a career in opera.

Appearances

• Willie Nelson
  Willie Nelson
  Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
  
  's 4th of July Picnic 2006
• Armed Forces Entertainment
  Armed Forces Entertainment
  Armed Forces Entertainment is the official United States Department of Defense agency for providing entertainment to U.S. military personnel overseas. Armed Forces Entertainment hosts over 1,200 shows around the world each year, reaching over 500,000 personnel at 355 military installations...
  
   2007 - Australia and Japan
• Austin City Limits Music Festival
  Austin City Limits Music Festival
  The Austin City Limits Music Festival is an annual three-day American music festival that takes place in Austin, Texas at the city's central public park, Zilker Park...
  
   2008

Songs

• Send Me a Cowboy
• Goin' Back To Texas
• Sweet on the Down Low
• Don't Say It's Over
• I Think I Will
• Lucky Ones
• Almost Like Home
• Everytime You Come Around
• I Envy the Man Who Put the Ring on Your Finger

Albums

• Bonnie Bishop (2002)
  1. Goin' Back to Texas - Music by Rob Albertson, Lyrics by Bonnie Bishop
  2. Men Are Like Buses - Bonnie Bishop
  3. Only Glory - Leann Atherton and Jay Patterson
  4. Send Me a Cowboy - Bonnie Bishop

• Long Way Home (2004)
  1. Send Me a Cowboy
  2. Goin Back to Texas
  3. In the Mirror
  4. Long Way Home
  5. One of a Kind (The Waltz)
  6. Men Are Like Buses
  7. If I Needed You - Townes Van Zandt
     Townes Van Zandt
     John Townes Van Zandt , best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American Texas Country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet...
     
     
  8. Simple House
  9. Sweet on the Down Low
  10. Friend of Mine
  11. Woman Willing to Wait
  12. Wayfaring Stranger

• Soft to the Touch (2005)
  1. Love Never Knows
  2. Trains
  3. The House That Jack Built
  4. Soft To The Touch
  5. Something The Doctor Didn't Order
  6. Brent Rollins
  7. He Took Me To The River
  8. I Must Want It Bad
  9. Give It Up To Me
  10. Red Moon
  11. Stillhouse
  12. Fallen Angel

• Bonnie Bishop and Friends: Live at Magnolia Avenue (2006)
  1. Sweet On The Downlow
  2. Stillhouse
  3. Fallen Angel
  4. Friend
  5. Almost Like Home
  6. Soft To The Touch
  7. If I Needed You
  8. Fort Worth
  9. Trains
  10. Brent
  11. Brent Rollins
  12. You Don't Know Me
  13. Jesus
  14. Friend Of Mine
  15. Bruce
  16. The Things I Know
  17. House That Jack Built
  18. Red Moon
  19. Everly Lane
  20. Priest
  21. You Don't Laugh Anymore
  22. Mavericks
  23. Fire And Rain
  24. Send Me A Cowboy
  25. Something The Doctor Didn't Order

• Virginia (2009)

Personal life

Bonnie Bishop was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of two musicians. Her father was a blues piano player, and her mother a cellist. In 1991 she moved to Mississippi after her mother remarried. Bishop graduated with a sociology degree from the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

 in 2001.

External links

• Website
• Warren Hood, Bonnie Bishop
• IO Music Bonnie Bishop Soft to the Touch
• Looking back at country music in 2006
• Up Close with Bonnie Bishop September 24, 2004