Robert reads Treble Clef and Nashville Numbers
Film
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“Telling Secrets” Cybill Shepherd
Television
Copperstate Chronicles, KTVK-3
Touring and recording with the Superstition Band
Opened for
Asleep at the Wheel at Rawhide, Phoenix AZ
Arizona
Patsy Cline Dinner Theater, Phoenix AZ
National Anthem with Harmonica for Phoenix RoadRunners Hockey
Awards
Phoenix Blues Society First Annual Blues Contest, 3rd place winner Cold Shot Blues Band;
Top Instrumentalist 1995, Arizona Country Music Association, Harmonica
Backed
Sammy Smith (Help Me Make It Through the Night); Opry star Stonewall Jackson; Rose Maddox
Gigged with
LA “Wrecking Crew” drummer Hal Blaine
Jammed with
Mason Williams (Classical Gas)
John Hartford (Gentle on my Mind)
Personal
Married, three children, seven grandchildren
Active church member
How it began
It was 1965 when I attended
The Beatles’ “I Should Have Known Better” was on KROY AM radio and I learned the opening riff. That was all I knew, so I played it over, and over, and over...
By the time I reached the ever-so-cool age of 16 in
Imagine this scene: An ornate, old fashioned theater-auditorium with dark walls and high ceilings, great acoustics, and nearly 2-seconds natural reverberation. On stage was a large, classic, ribbon microphone on a stand, as you might see in a radio drama of the 40’s.
I was in heaven! And I was finally admired and praised, too.
“So, you really CAN play that thing!” (OK, tolerated, maybe.) But it felt good.