Chris Robley

YouTube video by Chris Robley "Go Ask Lazarus" (Lyric Video)

There's gotta be a mathematical formula for my particular procrastinations.

Record an album. Release it 6 years later. Or don't.

Release a single. Drop the lyric-video 2 years later. Or shelve it.

Here's one "fresh" off that shelf.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pan...

Some days you feel patriotic.
Some days patriotic feels you.

Miles Davis made 50+ albums, revolutionized a genre 3 times, launched the careers of many jazz giants,...

...and has 2.8million monthly listeners. 

That guy in the SUMMER VIBES shirt & mustache who just put out his 1st canned-loop dance-jam probably has 3million. 

Numbers are numbers. Art is art.

TFW you prayed for painless, but the cosmic intern heard "growth."

The sun is finally shining in Maine, which means it's about to leap from frozen outside to frozen inside. Because once it's warm out there, the AC comes on i... Lunch Songs Live: Arctic Edition #singersongwriter #americana #folkmusic

There will be NO fur coat during this week's livestream.

There WILL be a livestream though.

And maybe a polar bear. If I can find one in the next couple days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBsZJAzVFqc

#americana #folkmusic #singersongwriter #livestream

What America needs right now more than anything is for everyone to drop everything and just listen to the piano in Ellington & Coltrane's "In a Sentimental Mood." 

It's almost literally impossible to hate anyone while that piano is playing. Try it. Your country needs you to. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

And we’re like, look at that cartoon rhinoceros! So cool!

And AI is like, yeah, gimme a sec to construct a dozen more nuclear reactors.

And now we’re all like, hey AI, can you put some jumbo boobs on an anime rhinoceros playing poker on a surfboard?

Remember when everyone was all like, oh gawd, bitcoin uses energy to secure a decentralized financial network that’s never been compromised in over 15 years? For shame! How dare it!

Maybe that's a good thing for Black Crowes' marketing? Small but fiercely loyal rock purist audience?

YouTube video by Chris Robley Chris Robley - "Filament" (Official Lyrics Video)

This song is relevant as ever. Thank you, @chrisrobley.com

youtu.be/pkRZdRTqOII

Introducing Fredo Baggins!

Half #Corleone, half #hobbit. Weakest of the family… bearer of the ring. (And we all know he wears it too). 

Now I need your help:

Give me your best fake Fredo quote from The Don of the Rings: "__________"

Jeffrey Goldberg gets accidentally added to a group chat and the story of the year lands in his lap.

Paul McCartney goes to sleep and dreams "Yesterday," the most covered song in history.

I'm waiting, Lord.

Don't care how big a music theory genius you are. If you think "Teenage Dream" ever hits the root chord, you're wrong.

It never hits a minor chord either. Never implies a fancy double extension whats-a-ma-who-lit. 

It's just IV(maj7). Then V. Then IV. Then V. Then IV. And V. And then IV. And V...

Aging is weird. 

I remember a show in 2017 when I sang Taylor Swift's SHAKE IT OFF and these college kids yelled "Oh, yay. A classic."

And I was like, "'Fly Me to the Moon' is a classic. This song came out 3 years ago."

Now those kids are nearly 30 and that song is still "new-ish" to me.

Heard an ad for a Black Crowes concert this AM. Someone said: "We're the last real rock band to not use in-ear monitors. We still use amps that push air." 

And I wondered: Do audiences actually care about that? 
Or is it inside-baseball for nostalgists?
Big overlap in their case?

Honest question.

What’s the title of their WORST song?

(Sometimes I like to make bad album covers for fake bands, and you’re welcome)

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

Imagine thinking the internet is disruptive. Gutenberg walked so Twitter could run.

What do YOU think is most missing in modern music? Drop your hot take in the comments!

Here's my theory: Mouth-trumpet 🎺

Yes, mouth-trumpet. Or... trombone?

Such as in Harry Nilsson' iconic vocal break from "Everybody’s Talkin’"...

🎸Count the awkward faces! 😂  This is what happens when I get lost in a solo… awkward face city. Watch the counter go up as I take a lead over "Everybody’s Talkin’." 

What guitarist do you think makes the weirdest faces? Drop a comment and lemme know.

#GuitarSolo #AwkwardGuitarFaces

a lil' nilsson for yr day

Every concert of macabre folk-pop originals needs a good cover song. Here's one we practiced the other night, and we promise to know all the words in time for the show. 😉

#TomPetty #AmericanGirl

Hear ye, hear ye!By royal decree, I hereby set aside one hour each Thursday for song. Enthusiasts of various pop, folk, and rock formats shall gather and cha... "Let there be song!" (#americana #singersongwriter #folkmusic)

It's time, time, time for Lunch Songs Live. 

Starting at noon EST / 9am PST.

Hop on and say hey, make a request, or comment with a strange-but-true fact and I'll spin it into an instant song!

Monty Python with the life advice.

Live In Rockport: Mark Erelli + His String Quintet, by Mark Erelli 11 track album

one of my favorite songs of the 21st century — recorded live — with an aching string quintet arrangement.

jesus, what a song. check it out on @markerelli's bandcamp. i think it just came out today.

All this obsessive talk among the major labels about "superfans" over the past couple years like it's some hot new thing.

Turns out what they mean is "people who go to shows, buy stuff, check in with their favorite artists once in a while." 

Oh, so, like, fans?

Hope to see you there!

More info and tickets at laarts.org/performances/

#mainemusic #lewistonmaine #americana #folkmusic #folktrio

... we are playing HERE!

This is the new stage at L/A Arts (picture taken when it was still under construction).

It'll be cozy no matter what the weather is doing out of doors.

A great listening room.

... our March 29th concert COULD look like this, so...