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Good Energy

My name is Bobby Frank. I’m a musician based in Nashville Tennessee. Drums are my first instrument but the handpan is what changed my life.

It’s a magical instrument, a symphony contained in two pieces of metal.

It offers an invitation to explore. Musical adventures on the razor’s edge. Intensity disguised as calm. Sparkling tone. Deep resonance. Rhythms that merge into melodies. Unplayed notes still felt.

How lucky I feel to have this in my life.

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Sounds and Sights

You can find my music on most streaming services. Two new releases are coming late Summer and Fall 2025. If you’d like to be notified when they come out, please sign up for my mailing list.

My most recent release is titled Inevitable. It was described by Craig Havighurst at WMOT Nashville as:

How about the handpan, an instrument that’s only about 15 years old? Is that Americana? Well it’s for sure hand-wrought music, and this ambient project from Nashville’s Bobby Frank exceeded my expectations. It’s not just another new age massage studio recording. Frank, a drummer who plays with Tennessee Dead, Rich Mahan and other roots artists, has a keen sense of rhythm that evokes the fingertip pulses and ornaments of Indian tabla drums. And this instrument, a recent offshoot of the Trinidadian oil drum xylophone or steel pan, is abundantly lush with harmonics and overtones that fill the air and float. This feels great whether you’re leaning in to listen or lying on your back blissing out.