2024 Inductee

Bobby Mackey was born in Lewis County, Kentucky. He fell in love with Hank Williams Sr’s music at the age of four and got his first guitar at 8 years old and soon was playing and singing along with the stars of The Grand Ole Opry every Saturday night.

After high school Mackey left home to pursue a career in Country Music playing local night clubs in the Cincinnati area. When he opened Bobby Mackey’s nightclub in Wilder, Kentucky it became very successful and along with the nightclub success came national chart success with record releases such as “Hero Daddy” and “Pepsi Man.”

Bobby Mackey is a member of “The Northern Kentucky Music Legends Hall of Fame” and “The Independent Country Music Hall of Fame”, and still performs in his own successful nightclub, Bobby Mackey’s. He appears as a member of the weakly “Penny Gilley T.V. Show” on RFD T.V.