Tad robinson biography of albert

She worked in the parks department as an administrator and she would kind of help with things like open spaces and Shakespeare in the park and things like that. So the arts were important in our house. And my brother introduced me to all of, he was older, he was my older brother, he bought all of the 45s. So that was the music going, you know.

Between my parents love for the show tunes, all of the Broadway stuff we experienced being New Yorkers, and then we were getting the constant flow of new music from the Rock era. But, it was the voices that led me later to discover the more earthy, more obscure artists that were always there but were invisible to me. It took a while to claw through and get down to the artists that were more essential.

Music was all around young Tad who had a proclivity for it. I fooled around and began trying to write simple songs and accompany myself singing. I had a rudimentary self taught piano ability that made it possible for me to bang out the unadorned chords. This was the s, and my sister, Nancy, was very into the folk music scene. Oftentimes I remember singing harmonies with her.

And my brother, Steve, would chime in too. It was so fun and natural to get that effortless three-part-blood-harmony going. I view that experience as the seed of me wanting to sing. In 5th grade, I was in my first rock band. In actuality that seed for singing was in Tad when he was born:. The influence of his family, his City and the decades of his youth gave him the raw material to feed his natural talent and move his art forward:.

I learned philosophical things from voice teachers, but not too much that helped me with the type of singing that I wanted to do. That was the source material, and would always continue to be. Being a singer, I still wanted to know something about theory, and I thought that would be the place to learn. Bloomington…was where my serious education in the blues scene would happen.

I was in a little blues band in my I. It was kind of a rite of passage. After undergrad in Indiana, Tad attended the graduate school of Blues Dues Paying in Chicago, where a burgeoning new wave of young Blues musicians was taking shape. And so this was the music that was all around me in Chicago. And so then I fell in with the people that I really respected.

He was a person in Chicago who was a real important linchpin between the post war Blues like Sunnyland Slim and Lonnie Brooks and all those people and to the white cats that came later that were fascinated with the music. Like me. And like Ken Saydak was another one. He was a great piano player coming out of the Blues tradition. But, also making it their own and making it seem honest.

To be in that scene and yet not be a fraud laughs. They were totally at home in the music and totally respected by the people who were the innovators, the creators of the music.

Tad robinson biography of albert

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