5 String Banjo, Bass Drum, Tambourine and Singing.
Influences
Lots of field recordings and other music from the distant past...Dock Boggs, Uncle Dave Macon, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Sonny Terry...music from the recent past...The Ramones, Led Zeppelin, The Replacements, Violent Femmes, AC/DC, The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Big Star, The Pogues...music of my contemporaries, peers and friends...Shellac, Lightning Bolt, Neutral Milk Hotel, Will Oldham, Jawbone, Gillian Welch, Tom Waits, Bjork, Nina Nastasia, Bob Dylan, Angus Maclaurin, TV on the Radio, Gogol Bordello, Lucinda Williams, Beastie Boys, White Stripes, Calexico...this could go on and on...
Sounds Like
"He plucks that banjo like a madman, like the devil himself." New York Press
"There's no niche or category to file this under. It's just simply amazing." -Autopia
"Whirling one-man banjo ninja is in fighting form." -Europe Intelligence Wire
"A stone-cold classic performer that blasts all other singer-songwriters out of their soporific, arrogant, self-obsessed torpor with his pinpoint melodies, frantic enthusiasm and homespun, heartfelt wordplay, one-man-band Roebuck's lightning fast banjo (dude can shred quicker than Kerry King man!) and incessant hotstepping to the beat really will get your juices flowing. Aided by yet another pristinely sparse Steve Albini recording that just lets Roebuck do what he does best, live, in the flesh, no airs or graces, just pure musicianship in action, and my god is it catchy!" -CollectiveZine
Phillip Roebuck is a Virginia-born, New York-bred singer/songwriter and bare-bones one-man band. Using a classic depression-era type drum apparatus, worn on his back, and a ragged-but-right banjo style, Roebuck's music is steeped in roots but undeniably fueled by rock. Some highlights include...
John Peel Show - BBC - October 13, 2004
All Tomorrow's Parties - England
w/Shellac - Chicago
w/American Music Club - London
w/Nina Nastasia - U.S. Tour
w/Ralph Stanley - Chicago
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FEVER PITCH is the most recent album - recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago and mastered by Nick Webb at Abbey Road Studios in London.
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ONE-MAN BAND was recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago and mastered by Nick Webb at Abbey Road Studios in London.
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INERTIA - This two volume set is the earliest record of the one-man band. Volume I was made in New York City using the original suitcase apparatus, including live tracks from the Times Square subway station. Volume II covers a session done in Seattle using the current set up.
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UNDER THE MATCHLIGHT predates the one-man band by a few years. It was recorded alone in a barn in Pungo, Virginia.
Check out the debut release on String Theory Recordings, STRR001: CC Rock_String Theory , in stores November 10, 2009. Featuring 4 mixes of House music (Progressive, Deep, Tech). Including mixes from CC Rock, Aleksus Sanchez, Locklear & Poppin, and RioTGeaR.
hey brother awsome performance at the lazy horse last night! anytime your in va i will come see that show. all that stuff you do with the banjo and the singing and the dumming is phenomenol but i really enjoy the lyrics. great song writing!!!! i loaded up my rifle, the dying hopes of love. and when i pulled back on the trigger, blew up like love does. keep rocking out
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD, WE DID IT. ABSINTHE ROSE IS ON ITUNES! HELP US OUT IF YOU GOT 2 BUCKS OR WRITE A REVIEW ON THE ITUNES THAT IS FREE AND IS WELCOMED!
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Take care of each other and thank you
Kimbo Rose Workman and the team from SCREECH OWL RECORDS!
this is our new release . AUTOMATIC PUSSYCAT is a duet with KING AUTOMATIC & SAM from DIGGER & THE PUSSYCATS. 3 songs . CRAMPS & EASYBEATS covers !
voici notre nouvelle sortie. AUTOMATIC PUSSYCAT est un duo composé de KING AUTOMATIC et SAM de DIGGER & THE PUSSYCATS. sur ce 45 tours, on y retrouve 3 titres dont une reprise des CRAMPS et un des EASYBEATS !!!
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Born bad à Paris Total heaven à Bordeaux Melomane à Nantes L Erethik café à nantes Spliff à Clermont Ferrand
sur notre compil , il y a Decheman, king Automatic , Bud Mcmuffin , Urban Jr , reverend Beatman,Venus Fly Trap One Girl Band , Garagekid , Mr Bonz , Feeling of Love, Sheriff perkins , miss Ipi , Wasted Pido , Mr Verdun , D66 , Rotor Jambreks , Dead Elvis & Birds Are Alive rds. 17 titres , 13 inedits , 2 lives (Urban jr et Beatman) et 2 titres rares (Dead Elvis & feeling of love). pochette cartonnée serigraphié et insert avec Illustration du livret par Nicolas Moog alias Mr Verdun. 666 copies . on n a pas pu faire mieux !!! ;-)
On our Kizmiaz rds CD compil.,you can find Decheman,King Automatic,Bud Mcmuffin, Urban Jr,reverend Beatman,Venus Fly Trap one girl band,Garage Kid,Mr Bonz, Feeling of Love,Sheriff Perkins,Miss Ipi,Wasted Pido,Mr Verdun,D66,Rotor Jambreks, Dead Elvis & Birds Are Alive rds. 17 tracks=13 unreleased ones,2 live ones:Urban Jr & Beatman,2 rare ones:Dead Elvis & Feeling of Love. The CD is a cardboard-box with a silk-screen painting sleeve+insert & an inside booklet with a 4 pages long drawing by Nicolas Moog(AKA Mr Verdun) on it. 666 limited & numeroted ed. We could not have done it in a better way!
