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The Poem Adept

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Member Since: 18/02/2006
Band Website: http://www.poemadept.com
Influences: Patty Griffin, Paul Simon, Dar Williams, Living Colour, Counting Crows, James Taylor
Record Label: 21 Balloons
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Denim and Diamonds tour starts April 27th!!!

Yup.  It's coming to your town, and there's no stopping it.  66 Days, 62 shows, 57 cities; The Poem Adept and FOUND Magazine 2009 spring tour is kicking off proper in Buffalo on April 27th!  Come expe...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:08:00 GMT

Baddest Nissans on YouTube

Howdy y'all!I've been working on the Poem Adept web presence, so I set up a YouTube channel and have finally started adding some videos.  Last night I recorded The Baddest Nissans in the Northwest, wh...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:56:00 GMT

Skope Magazine review

This from the Artist to Watch section in the July issue of Skope Magazine:"...Peter Rothbart, aka The Poem Adept, is probably my favorite of these singer/songwriters. His vocal delivery is folky and s...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:24:00 GMT

Go Back to Molly

So I done joined an Irish/traditional/folk/country/bluegrass band called Boys of Greenwood Glen.  I'm still learning the material, so thus far our shows together have been heavy on improvisation ...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:10:00 GMT

Sight of any Bird rejects

Check the new untitled track in the player with regard to this post... I wrote this song in the fall of 2004 on the Slapdance tour.  I remember playing it for my friend Josie in the back of the L...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:05:00 GMT

The Silent Switch

My friend Greg gave me the perfect mix tape when I moved to San Francisco in 1998.  It wasn’t the inherent quality of the songs he chose that made me love it.  Instead, it was how wel...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:11:00 GMT

news and reviews

No new lyrics at the moment.  I'm on the cusp of completing a handful of songs, and I'll post them when they're ready.  Until then:an interview Davy and I did with Harp Magazine:http://harpm...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:38:00 GMT

The Bottom Line

I was surprised at how fond I was of London when I visited last year.  My fuse grows progressively shorter in super-sized cities, but London didn't make me feel like I was in a WWF cage match the...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:42:00 GMT

Newditty!! avert your ears...

Hmm...been a while.  I missed you too.I’ve got a few new songs cooking, so in the next few weeks I’ll flip some lyrics off the grill and you can tell me how they taste, if they need s...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:01:00 GMT

Technical problems

The new album is finally becoming tangible.  I'm close enough to being done with it that I can start to sense the looming satisfaction.  It should go to press right around Valentine's day, w...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:13:00 GMT