Phillip Roebuck

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PHILLIP ROEBUCK is a Virginia-born, New York-bred songster and bare bones one-man band. With punk rock intensity, Roebuck stomps out beats on a classic, depression-era drum apparatus, while strumming the banjo with a fierce ragged-but-right style. Some might call it Roots music for the new millennium. Although he has played over a thousand shows in venues and on festival stages in the U.S. and Europe, Roebuck can just as easily be seen performing on a street corner in New Orleans or New York City or Norfolk, where he has spent nearly a decade honing his skills as a one-man band. Roebuck was born in Norfolk, VA into a huge musical family (“I think I have 60 cousins, something like that”), so big that they have a music festival every July out in Pungo, a rural county of his hometown, Virginia Beach. He was also an only child. His father, a singer-songwriter, moved Roebuck and his mother, then a hairstylist, traveled around the country in pursuit of a musical career. By the time they moved back to Virginia Beach, when Roebuck was in junior high, he had attended 19 different schools. In high school Roebuck was versatile; surfing, performing in theater, and by then, he was also performing in clubs he wouldn’t have been allowed into otherwise. He was also constantly songwriting. “It always just flowed for me, although the better songs were harder to come by…but you write 10 or 12 of them and boom, you find a good one.” Roebuck was influenced by folk (Cat Stevens, Jim Croce,

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Fever Pitch

The Alpine Butterfly

One Man Band

More Townes Van Zandt by The Great Unknown

Inertia

One-Man Band

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Strange & Dangerous Times (New American Roots - Real Music For The 21st Century)

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Attack of the One-Man Bands [CD 1]

Under The Matchlight

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Be My Little Widow (Live) - Single

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Tom Dooley - Single

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Attack of the One-Man Bands Disc 1

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