Hunter Robertson - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I was born in California with a flyswatter banjo on my knee.
Running the gamut from one-man-band to sell-your-soul-to-the-devil-blues by way of clawhammer banjo, slide banjo, 12 string guitar, kazoo and stringed contraptions made out of tin cans.
You Gonna need Somebody on your Bond - One Man Band: Slide Banjo, Kazoo, High Hat and Bass Drum, Voice. (from my album Sings Songs for the Masses )
Pretty Polly - Fingerstyle 5 String Banjo, Voice. (from Sings Songs for the Masses )
Ol' Virginee - 12 String Guitar, Voice. (from Sings Songs for the Masses )
For the full lowdown: www.hunterrobertson.com
You'll find more tunes from Sings Songs for the Masses there and how to order it.
I've been playing shows around Vermont recently with my friend Casey Abair on fiddle, the first three tunes in the player are with him:
Last Chance - from Hobart Smith's fiddling.
Coo Coo - from John Snipes, Dink Roberts and Rufus Kasey.
In the Pines - from Leadbelly, Art Rosenbaum, Bill Monroe and others.
Here's a video of us playing John Brown's Dream:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/14/2006
Band Website: www.hunterrobertson.com
Band Members: Hunter Robertson - 5 string banjo in various configurations - slide, clawhammer, picked, metal & gut strung, fretted & fretless, thumped - you name it. 12 string guitar, kazoo, bass drum and high hat (one man band), "straight" and fretless electric guitars, various stringed contraptions made out of tin cans, voice.

Casey Joe Abair - Fiddle, backing vocals.

Fereale Robertson - Backing vocals.

Influences: Dock Boggs, Hobart Smith, Wade Ward, Virgil Anderson, Clyde Davenport, Buell Kazee, Luther Strong, Frank Proffitt, Elmo Newcomer, Bukka White, Charlie Patton, Son House, Skip James, Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, Henry Burr, Jacques Brel, Bob Dylan, The Holy Modal Rounders, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Nick Cave, The Incredible String Band, John Fahey, Blind Willie Johnson and various other blind people.
Sounds Like: A bony hand slidin' up your thigh 'round about midnight...Or, to be pedestrian: Dock Boggs, Hobart Smith, Wade Ward, Virgil Anderson, Clyde Davenport, Buell Kazee, Luther Strong, Frank Proffitt, Elmo Newcomer, Bukka White, Charlie Patton, Son House, Skip James, Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, Henry Burr, Jacques Brel, Bob Dylan, The Holy Modal Rounders, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Nick Cave, The Incredible String Band, John Fahey, Blind Willie Johnson and various other blind people.
Record Label: Self-produced

My Blog

European Shows and County Sales Review

With my wife and I moving back to Europe shortly, I've been arranging some gigs there. I'll be playing solo May 21-23 at the European World of Bluegrass Festival in Voorthuizen, The Netherlands and Ma...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:45:00 GMT

New Reviews, Photos and Tunes

News, news, news:- Casey and I have been doing some recording. You can hear some of the tunes we've gotten down (Last Chance, Coo Coo and In the Pines) on my myspace page.- JP Candelier took some pict...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:56:00 GMT

Sing Out! review of Sings Songs for the Masses

Well, a great review of my last CD in the latest issue of Sing Out!"Hunter Robertson is a modern day banjo songster. Sings Songs for the Masses is his first CD, and it's a solo effort through and thro...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:47:00 GMT

CD Review of Sings Songs for the Masses on Rambles.net

This very nice review of Sings Songs for the Masses, written by Jerome Clark, just went up on Rambles.net: "Listening to Songs for the Masses (that title comprising the album's one and on...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:08:00 GMT

CD review in The Old-Time Herald

Well, imagine my pleasure on receiving the June-July issue of The Old-Time Herald and finding this review of my CD, Sings Songs for the Masses, by Pete Peterson: "When you live far away f...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:49:00 GMT

Show on WBKM - May 29th

Casey and I will be doing another radio show next week. It'll be on www.wbkm.org at 5 p.m. (EST), Thursday the 29th of May. Tune in on the world wide web.Another good piece of news I've had floating a...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 21:53:00 GMT

Chinese Earthquake Aid

You've probably seen the news about China (not to mention Burma, too bad their government is making aid almost impossible to get in). It's dire there, some recent incomplete figures suggest 14,463 peo...
Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 22:02:00 GMT

Interview - New Sound Magazine

I just did an interview with New Sound Magazine, you can read it online in their May issue: http://www.newsoundmagazine.com/issues/2008/May.htmlHunter
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 14:10:00 GMT

Burlington Show

We've got a show this Saturday, the 10th of May, at The Monkey House in Winooski, VT. Should be a lot of fun, Curtis Eller, New York's angriest banjo player and Katie Trautz (of May Fly and Knotty Pi...
Posted by on Mon, 05 May 2008 21:46:00 GMT