Alasdair Roberts
Musician
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Alasdair Roberts (musician)
Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician. He released a number of albums under the name Appendix Out, and following the 2001 album The Night is Advancing, under his own name. Roberts was born in Swabia, Germany, the son of former folk...
In this article: Drag City, Will Oldham, Ladytron, Stirling, David Byrne, Dougie MacLean, Jason Molina, and Secretly Canadian
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Wikipedia | October 30, 2009
Jason Molina
...since. In 2000 Molina released three albums: The Lioness which was recorded in Glasgow by producer Andy Miller with help from Alasdair Roberts and members of Arab Strap , Ghost Tropic, recorded by Mike Mogis, and Protection Spells, a solo...
In this article: Jason Molina, Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co., Didn't It Rain, EP, Ghost Tropic, Mike Mogis, Secretly Canadian, and Trials and Errors
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Independent.co.uk - Music | October 01, 2009
Album: Alasdair Roberts, The Wyrd Meme (Drag City)
Following hard on the heels of Spoils comes the second offering this year from Alasdair Roberts, an EP of four long tracks that brilliantly bears out the conjunction of ancient and modern, mythical and analytical, in the title The Wyrd...
In this article: Drag City, Will Oldham, and The Incredible String Band
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Independent.co.uk - Music | July 30, 2009
Monsters of Folk: Folk has a new supergroup
...raise the genre's profile. When the acclaimed leftfield folk-rock maverick Bonnie "Prince" Billy signed up the Scottish outsider Alasdair Roberts, who is partly inspired by the Scottish folk tradition, he demonstrated the way folk music is...
In this article: Matt Ward, Jim James, Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst, Lal Waterson, Ian Anderson, Bob Dylan, Jon Boden, Bellowhead, and James Yorkston
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | June 10, 2009
New exhibition shines a light on Andy Warhol's musical exploits
...dubbed "postmillennial road-trip art-rock." Co-presented by WYEP Presents. ($10) Aug. 7: Bert Jansch with special guest, Alasdair Roberts. Legendary songwriter and guitarist about whom Neil Young said, "As much of a great guitar player as...
In this article: Andy Warhol, Rolling Stones, Dean & Britta, Interview magazine, Pittsburgh, Bert Jansch, and Mick Jagger
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PopMatters | June 01, 2009
Alasdair Roberts: Spoils (Review)
Singer-songwriters like Alasdair Roberts have both a head start and a handicap when creating new albums. Roberts is a Scottish folk musician, and that comes with a long history and an equally long list of expectations. Fans of Scottish folk...
In this article: Amalgamated Sons of Rest, Will Oldham, Joanna Newsom, Jason Molina, and Drag City
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Drowned in Sound - News | April 23, 2009
Alasdair Roberts - Spoils
by Alexander Tudor [Edit this content] ▾ 0 comments 10:24 April 23rd, 2009 Almost a decade ago, Alasdair Roberts made an incomparably weird record called The Night Is Advancing with his old band Appendix Out. Incomparable for the times...
In this article: Allah, Jason Molina, Will Oldham, The Lioness, The Incredible String Band, and Ghost Tropic
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Wikipedia | April 02, 2009
National Park (band)
...Belle and Sebastian at the Shepherds Bush Empire. Scott Walker left the band in 1999, and was replaced briefly by Alasdair Roberts (of Appendix Out) and later by Gerard Love of Teenage Fanclub. He did return briefly to record "No...
In this article: National Park, Belle and Sebastian, Future Pilot A.K.A., Telstar Ponies, Yo La Tengo, Bill Wells, and Teenage Fanclub
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Guardian Unlimited | March 20, 2008
'You want no sheen, just the song'
...being passed down through the generations and she talks gushingly about modern musicians such as Will Oldham's brother, Ned, Alasdair Roberts and Lisa Knapp, all of whom are performing at her festival. But she is concerned that folk is...
In this article: Shirley Collins, Alan Lomax, Southbank Centre, Ashley Hutchings, Graham Coxon, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Colin Meloy, Decemberists, and Psychological trauma
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pitchfork.com
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Yes? Well, fuck them in the eye socket with their own falling-apart thesauruses! Better yet, fuck them in the eye socket with an Alasdair Roberts record-- with this record, Spoils. Because, damn, Alasdair Roberts has made the best album...
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Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician. He released a number of albums under the name Appendix Out, and following the 2001 album The Night is Advancing, under his own name.
Roberts was born in Swabia, Germany, the son of former folk guitarist (and partner of Dougie MacLean), Alan Roberts and his German wife Annegret, though he was raised in Kilmahog, a hamlet close to the small town of Callander, near Stirling in central Scotland. where he started playing the guitar and writing music. In 1994 he formed 'Appendix Out' with school friends Dave Elcock and Kenny McBride and started playing small venues. Roberts was also a classmate of Ladytron's Helen Marnie. While attending a Will Oldham concert in 1995, he offered a demo tape to the American singer, and a contract with US label Drag City soon followed. The band's first release was a double A-side single, "Pissed With You/Ice Age", and the band released its first album around a year later. After three albums with the ever-changing Appendix Out, Roberts recorded his first solo album, "The Crook Of My Arm". This album was consisted almost entirely of solo vocals and guitar in marked contrast to the increasingly experimental sound of the Appendix Out records. He has also collaborated with friends and label-mates Will Oldham and Jason Molina, both playing on their albums and on the one-off album, "Amalgamated Sons Of Rest." He also played hurdy-gurdy on the soundtrack of the 2003 film "Young Adam". This was later released under the title "Lead Us Not Into Temptation" by David Byrne. Roberts is noted for both his own compositions and recitations of traditional songs, including on his album of traditional death ballads, No Earthly Man and in 2006 featured in the BBC documentary Folk Britannia. He now lives in Glasgow.
- Also Known As:
- Appendix Out
- Instrument Played:
- Guitar
- Record Label:
- Years Active:
- 1994-present
- Associated With:
- Will Oldham
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