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courtney robbins

excuse me - is that your son in that picture?

About Me

Courtney has been in Tucson for a little over three years, hailing from the northeast. She got a black Ibanez electric guitar for her 13th birthday, and that was that. High school brought jazz band, self effacing garage bands and eventually the acoustic guitar. She honed her songwriting and performing skills in college at open mics, smoky bars and a few opening gigs for artists like Melissa Ferrick, Lucy Kaplansky, Catie Curtis, Meghan Toohey, Edie Carey and Dar Williams. After graduating and living in small town western Massachusetts for six months, she packed up and got the hell out, eventually landing in the dusty southwest. Her blistering guitar style often leaves her fingers bleeding; her straightforward songwriting skills are a figurative match. The combination has earned comments like: "You can play the SHIT out of that guitar!" "You sure do beat the hell out of that thing." "Whoa...I've never seen a girl play guitar like that." "You are really, really good at music."click on the album to buy it now!
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/3/2005
Band Website: courtneyrobbins.com
Band Members:

live @ blend, chapel hill, NC, 6.10.07
Influences: ++things i listened to then, by way of radio, records, adolescence: the beach boys, the mamas and the papas, rolling stones, janis joplin, the coasters, willie nelson, more twang, led zeppelin, aerosmith, stevie ray vaughan, the nields, etcetera.++things i am listening to now, give or take: aimee mann, erin mckeown, dar williams, winterpills, new pornographers, bruce springsteen, dolly parton, ani difranco, patty griffin, edie carey, anne heaton, girlyman, death cab for cutie, james bond themes, ellis paul, simon and garfunkel, adrianne, scout niblett, kris delmhorst, jeffrey foucault, amy rude, andrew bird, sun kil moon, meghan toohey, chris thile, rilo kiley, etcetera.++things i may or may not listen to soon: neko case, songs with no words, songs with words i like, inevitably songs with words i don't like, ted leo and the pharmacists, damien jurado, cat power, brandi carlile, more dolly parton, etcetera.

Sounds Like: music you like
Type of Label: None

My Blog

studly and the muffins

it's sunday, october 21 and there is football on tv in the next room.  i'm not sure who's playing, and i don't really care since i know it isn't the patriots or the redskins.  i'm in long be...
Posted by courtney robbins on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:07:00 PST

i thought i was your snack pack

asheville, NC last night we played at the root bar on the outskirts of asheville.  technically, it's called "root bar number 1" though as far as i can tell, there's only one anyway.  they ha...
Posted by courtney robbins on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:18:00 PST

excerpt

Scene:around 11 pm, last night in the RV.  preparing to leave new york city.joe gets peanut butter out of the cabinet.  i get carrots and peanut butter out of the fridge, after eating t...
Posted by courtney robbins on Thu, 31 May 2007 06:59:00 PST

tour blog the first

jamaica plain, mavegan mac and cheese with spinach and garlic...i'm still thinking about it.  the shows, the shows.  i got into connecticut last tuesday, and met up with joe and ingrid at my...
Posted by courtney robbins on Thu, 17 May 2007 11:17:00 PST

9 questions, 9 answers

checkitout - annie holub down at the tucson weekly was kind enough to throw the infamous nine questions at me.  i, in turn, answered the questions, more or less.  grab a copy from the red bo...
Posted by courtney robbins on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:19:00 PST

cds officially available to buy!

all right all right!  i've officially entered the world of e-commerce (or something like that).  you can now buy my first real cd online RIGHT NOW at cdbaby.com! and if you get it, listen to...
Posted by courtney robbins on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:32:00 PST

brand spankin new website!

heyyyyyyycheck it out - at long last, my website is up and running.  click around, read around, look around, leave a comment on the message board, let me know what you think! www.courtneyrobbins....
Posted by courtney robbins on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:23:00 PST

dramanonymous.com interview posted!

the good people at dramanonymous.com were kind enough to ask me a few questions and then write down my answers and then post them on the internet and they even put a few pictures of me next to my answ...
Posted by courtney robbins on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:17:00 PST

patience

where did the tunes go? do not fret.  i got rid of the older stuff to make way for new, freshly mastered tracks.  i guess it takes a bit for them to actually post on the page, so they should...
Posted by courtney robbins on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:03:00 PST

back in az

hello hello so yes, i am back in tucson after five too short days in seattle (although i guess since the sun doesn't go down til 10, it might technically be long days, but i digress).  the cd has...
Posted by courtney robbins on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:13:00 PST