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Thread #121101 Message #2640837
Posted By: Jack Campin
25-May-09 - 07:32 PM
Thread Name: Review: Alasdair Roberts!!! Yet Again
Subject: RE: Review: Alasdair Roberts!!! Yet Again
Why is "Guest show Bob" so determined to start a fight? Roberts sounds like a pretty good traditional singer to me. I don't know where "Willie Leonard" comes from, but if he made it up he's got the ballad idiom spot-on. And the guitar playing is lovely. (The Lyke-Wake Dirge is much less successful).
Roberts doesn't need Bob any more than Phil Beer needs Lizzie Cornish.
The biography on Roberts's website suggests he isn't all that interested in doing folk clubs - he shouldn't have had any problem getting gigs in Scotland if he'd wanted them. He's worked with enough weel-kent figures who could have recommended him to the dubious.