Heath Robinson - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Heath Robinson is a folk-rock duo, based in Ohio, USA, and Nottinghamshire, UK.

Richard Hollis' father taught piano, and it was from him that Richard learned to read music. He began studying electric guitar at the age of 12, and joined his first rock band at the age of 16. Richard has played professionally in three other bands. He began playing acoustic guitar in his mid-20s. Richard enjoys playing both acoustic and electric guitars and keyboard. He also enjoys engineering, and is HR's producer and engineer as well as contributing heavily to arrangements. Richard's "day job" is as a senior design engineer.

Joellen Robinson was born to two multi-instrumentalists. Her mother played the piano, saxophone, and ukulele. Her father played bluegrass-style guitar and tuba, and had taught her mother the sax. Joellen began her music training before the age of 5, when she began studying piano. After pestering her parents for a guitar for a few years, she began guitar lessons in her early teens, and was classically trained at a conservatory of music, where she received a bachelor degree in music. Along the way she picked up banjo, mandolin, recorder, autoharp, saxophone (which she no longer plays), and mountain dulcimer, as well as few other instruments. She worked as a production coordinator, musician, and music arranger for two studios, and played in a few working bands. Joellen works as an RN supervisor.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/7/2006
Band Website: heath.robinson.freeservers.com/
Band Members: R. Hollis, electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, vocals, final engineering; J. Robinson, acoustic guitars, mountain dulcimer, autoharp, keyboards, banjo, djembe, mandolin, recorders, vocals
Influences: Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, traditional British, Irish, and American folk music, bluegrass, blues, The Albion Band, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Richard Thompson, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Cat Stevens, Amazing Blondel, I Monster, Woodie Guthrie, very early jazz, early Vaudeville, early Tin Pan Alley, protest songs, Ian and Sylvia (when they were folkies), Gordon Lightfoot, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, roots music, Americana, folklore, history, politics
Sounds Like: ourselves, we hope!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

blizzard

Wow, we sure got a lot of snow last night! All the day shift workers called off at my place of employment. I'm still not feeling well due to the plague, but I'll be going in to do what I c...
Posted by Heath Robinson on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:04:00 PST

going to see a concert!

Cleveland (well, Lakewood, actually) Ohio, May 18th, at The Winchester: Fairport Convention's 40th anniversary acoustic tour! ...
Posted by Heath Robinson on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:39:00 PST

I hate being sick!

I've been wanting to finish up three different recordings, but I can't due to this lousy creeping crud in my chest. It comes with a really nasty cough for free, and it won't go away inspite of a...
Posted by Heath Robinson on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:49:00 PST

It's a new year

We will have new stuff lined up for 2007. Richard wrote a new song - he started writing lyrics for it on Dec.30th and sent me a demo of it on the evening of the 31st! ::boggle:: I wi...
Posted by Heath Robinson on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 06:48:00 PST

New Demo version of Proud Lady Margaret

Thanks to some great constructive criticism from the New Song Notification Forum, we've redone PLM to make it a little less repetitive and make it flow better. It will be up sometime today. :) T...
Posted by Heath Robinson on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:38:00 PST

Top Friends

Richard and I decided that in the sake of fairness, we're going to be mixing up various folks on our top friends list, since there are so many great talents on it. So if you *were* on it and fin...
Posted by Heath Robinson on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:01:00 PST

Gigs, and a new song soon!

Today I found out that my Jeep Cherokee, which had been out of commission since early August, is running once again! I get to pick it up tomorrow, and then I can start going to a few open mics a...
Posted by Heath Robinson on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:31:00 PST

New song!

So far, we've gotten some very positive feedback on Lord Lovill...thank you! It's sort of Bob Johnson-esque, I think. Now, if MySpace will fix the standalone player so that the number of plays/...
Posted by Heath Robinson on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:50:00 PST

New projects in the works (if you read our LJ, you can skip this entry!)

We're working on several new songs, some of which won't make it onto MySpace due either to length or due to the four-song limit. Those we can't load here we'll put on the web site (which is in s...
Posted by Heath Robinson on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:04:00 PST

huh?

We will never understand the internet. Yesterday we had a ton of profile views, 72 plays, and 5 downloads. Today, so far (at 5:15pm), 7 plays. LOL! I have two more song lyrics comple...
Posted by Heath Robinson on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:18:00 PST