Bob Boykin
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| Background information | |
| Born | US |
| Genres | Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country, R&B |
| Occupation(s) | Guitarist, composer, producer |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Labels | Crossroads Int'l Records |
| Website | bobboykin |
Bob Boykin is an American musician, session musician, composer, and producer, best known as a guitarist. He has recorded with producers such as Quincy Jones, Teo Macero (produced: Miles Davis, Robert Palmer, Billie Holiday) and dozens of artists, notably Pam Tillis, Dr. Hook, Eddie Van Halen, Meat Loaf, John Schneider, Kenny Rogers, Gary Puckett, Brenda Lee, Dolly Parton, and Liza Minnelli. He has written and produced original songs and scores for movies and television shows including Sex and the City, Married People, The West Wing, The X-Files, and Married... with Children.
Today, Bob divides his time between Los Angeles and Nashville.
Bob grew up on a farm outside of Savannah, on a dirt road in south Georgia. He began playing music professionally by age 16 in the local clubs in Savannah. Soon after high school he moved to Nashville, where he started working as a studio guitarist and songwriter, working with many of Nashville's top stars in the studio and on the Grand Ole Opry.
He first came to Los Angeles in the mid 80s for a recording session for his first solo CD with many of LA's top studio musicians. A few years later, he returned to LA again. It wasn't long before he played on his first television show as a side man, for Marvel Comics Saturday morning cartoon shows and the hit TV series MacGyver. It was during that time he teamed up with Grammy winning Saxophonist Ernie Watts, and produced many collaborative original works, including the Billboard Top Ten song "Language of the Heart" which appears on the Ernie Watts Quartet album. Soon after that he began composing songs and main titles for Columbia Pictures, Sony, Glen Larson at 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers and MGM. His original songs and scores have been heard on hit shows such as Sex and the City, West Wing, The X-Files, Chris Isaak Show, Married People, Fame, Route 66, Married... with Children, Sea Hunt, L. A. Firefighters and Moon Over Miami (with members of the "Tonight Show Band") and feature films like Toy Story, Chicken Run, Red Surf, Keys To Tulsa, Sister Sister, Flypaper, AFI, Women in Film- Steven Spielberg, Down The Barrel, and Take The Lead (starring Antonio Banderas) to name a few. Bob was later hired as the weekly composer and music producer of the #1 ABC weekly prime-time series Married People including composing the main & end titles, produced by Columbia Pictures/Sony.
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