Bobby Thompson (musician)

Bobby Thompson (born Robert Clark Thompson; July 5, 1937 – May 18, 2005) was an American banjoist and guitarist. He worked as a session musician from the 1960s through 1980s. He recorded with Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Neil Young, Perry Como, among others.

Thompson was born in Converse, South Carolina. In the late 1960s, he joined his fellow session musicians, Weldon Myrick, Charlie McCoy to form Area Code 615.

He died in 2005 at the age of 67.

Selected discography
With The Monkees With Charley Pride With Dottie West With Willie Nelson With The Everly Brothers With Donna Fargo With Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton With Johnny Cash With Hank Wilson With Tom Rapp / Pearls Before Swine With Ferlin Husky With Waylon Jennings With The Pointer Sisters With The Statler Brothers With Ronnie Milsap With Jimmy Buffett With Eddie Rabbitt With England Dan & John Ford Coley With Barbara Mandrell With Dolly Parton With Mickey Newbury With The Oak Ridge Boys With Margo Smith Soundtrack With Jerry Lee Lewis With Dan Seals With Hank Williams Jr. With John Anderson With Loretta Lynn With George Strait With Reba McEntire With Chet Atkins With Neil Young
 * The Monkees Present (1969)
 * Missing Links Volume Two (1990)
 * Christmas in My Home Town (1970)
 * Charley (1975)
 * The Happiness of Having You (1975)
 * Country and West (1970)
 * Forever Yours (1970)
 * If It's All Right With You/Just What I've Been Looking For (1972)
 * Country Sunshine (1973)
 * Carolina Cousins (1975)
 * Yesterday's Wine (1971)
 * Pass the Chicken & Listen (1972)
 * My Second Album (1972)
 * All About a Feeling (1973)
 * Together Always (1972)
 * Any Old Wind That Blows (1973)
 * Look at Them Beans (1975)
 * One Piece at a Time (1976)
 * Rockabilly Blues (1980)
 * Hank Wilson's Back Vol. I (1973)
 * Sunforest (1973)
 * Champagne Ladies and Blue Ribbon Babies (1974)
 * The Ramblin' Man (1974)
 * That's a Plenty (1974)
 * Sons of the Motherland (1974)
 * A Legend in My Time (1975)
 * High Cumberland Jubilee (1976)
 * Rocky Mountain Music (1976)
 * Rabbitt (1977)
 * Variations (1978)
 * Nights Are Forever (1976)
 * Dowdy Ferry Road (1977)
 * Some Things Don't Come Easy (1978)
 * Lovers, Friends and Strangers (1977)
 * Jolene (1974)
 * New Harvest...First Gathering (1977)
 * Frisco Mabel Joy (1971)
 * Heaven Help the Child (1973)
 * Rusty Tracks (1977)
 * The Sailor (1979)
 * Y'all Come Back Saloon (1977)
 * Room Service (1978)
 * The Oak Ridge Boys Have Arrived (1979)
 * Together (1980)
 * A Woman (1979)
 * Malibu Express (1980)
 * When Two Worlds Collide (1980)
 * Killer Country (1980)
 * Stones (1980)
 * Harbinger (1982)
 * Rebel Heart (1983)
 * San Antone (1984)
 * Won't Be Blue Anymore (1985)
 * On the Front Line (1986)
 * Habits Old and New (1980)
 * Rowdy (1981)
 * The Pressure Is On (1981)
 * High Notes (1982)
 * I Just Came Home to Count the Memories (1981)
 * I Lie (1982)
 * Strait Country (1981)
 * Strait from the Heart (1982)
 * Unlimited (1982)
 * Behind the Scene (1983)
 * My Kind of Country (1984)
 * Great Hits of the Past (1983)
 * Old Ways (1985)