A forty year veteran of the Texas-Nashville music scene, Richard J. Dobson was a full-time member of a storied group of Texas singer-songwriters who gravitated to Nashville in the early 1970s and went on to raise the bar and set new standards for songwriters everywhere—Guy and Susanna Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Rodney Crowell, Lucinda Williams, and Steve Earle.

Working on boats and drilling rigs— to get away as much as to save money for recording expenses—he released his first LP in 1978. Touring extensively in Europe since the mid 1980s, he has released twenty records and CDs, ten of them on the Swiss label, Brambus Records. He is the author of two acclaimed travel-music memoirs, The Gulf Coast Boys, and his most recent, Pleasures of the High Rhine, A Texas Singer in Exile. A resident of Switzerland since 2000, he is at work on another book and several recording projects.