years_active label article_title name background birth_date instrument genre origin birth_name occupation
1970 -- 1988 royal audiograph , door knob american , metromedia , grt , sunbird , bobby g. rice
 bobby g. rice solo_singer 11 july 1944 vocals , guitar country boscobel , wisconsin robert gene rice singer-songwriter
bobby g. rice

robert gene rice -lrb- born july 11 , 1944 in boscobel , wisconsin -rrb- is an american country music singer-songwriter , known professionally as bobby g. rice .
between 1970 and 1988 , rice released nine albums and charted thirty songs on the `` billboard '' hot country singles chart .
his biggest hit , `` you lay so easy on my mind , '' peaked at number 3 in 1973 .
