CHRIS ROBESON is an Austin,Texas native that will take you on his journey that prevails in his music.He has quite a few music influences in his music career that include Tom Waits, John Prine, Ween and quite a few other artists. His music details songs about laughter, tears, irritation and all of those other things we have deep feelings about all aspects of songs we all can relate to.
The band is: Chris Tobeson-Lead vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar; Gabriel Rhodes-Electric guitar, keyboards, erhu, flute, horns, percussion, steel guitar, mandolin and background vocals; Matt Slagle-Bass; Josh Flowers-Bass, strings; Oliver Steck-Harmonica, trumpet; Guy Forsyn-Saw, background vocals; Shawn Pander-Dog bark, background vocals; John Chipman-Drums, percussion and IIya Janos Kolozs-Percussion.
This 13 song album was Produced and Engineered by Gabriel Rhodes and Chris Robeson and Mastered by Mark Hallman. BUILT TO FALL APART is quite an interesting song as his voice has reflections of Tom Waits in this song. I love the laid back rustic feel of the songs as the guitar playing is perfect and fits the song well. Superb. HOME IN THE RAIN has some quite amazing lyrics that we all can relate to. The melody and lyrics are perfect in this song.
This reminds me of a song that Bob Dylan would sing with the great lyrics. I love it. FOOL'S GOLD is a bit of a slow tempo song as it has some reflections of the band , Yello. The harmonica is epic to hear in this song. Check this song out by all means. So cool. HELD YOU has a small bit of an echo chamber feel in the vocals in this song.This is a heartbreaking and quite depressing song. WOW! EVERYTHING GOES has the reflections of Leonard Cohen song, Hallelujah, in the song.
The song is a little more upbeat, but still has the same vibe. I love it. I'M COMING HOME [IF YOU'D LET ME] brings this epic album to end as the lyrics will hit you hard for those that have been there. I bet there are very many out there that can relate to this song. This is a 'wake-up song. This should be the "Album of The Year" because the truth he speaks. You can find Chris Roberson at: You tube, Deezer, Apple Music, Pandora and other sites. ROCK ON, JIM ALLFORD [STEEL NOTES MAGAZINE.]
