Featured Track: Dirt Poor Robins – Love Again

Dirt Poor Robins
“Love Again” (mp3)
from “The Cage”
(Astonish Entertainment)

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Practically pre-destined for music and for each other, Neil and Kate Robins are Dirt Poor Robins, both born with music in their blood.

Kate Robins learned how to sing before she could even talk. “My mother made sure I was always surrounded with music,” she says. When most toddlers her age were learning to tie their shoes, Kate was learning piano. She began performing at the age of four, writing songs at age ten, and recording demos at age twelve. “I found my value in writing songs and being heard.”

Neil began his music training in childhood as well. He quickly picked up piano, trombone, cello, percussion, and guitar, and quickly fell in love with rock guitar. Taking his cues from the early hip hop movement, his style evolved into a blend of hip hop, rock and classical. “I was always trying to pull from those three areas,” Neil says. He plays eight different instruments on their album – 95% of the music.

When Neil and Kate were just entering their twenties, still strangers to each other, they were cast opposite each other as the leads in an off-Broadway musical. “When I heard her open her mouth and sing at the first rehearsal, I thought, ‘That is the best-sounding voice I’ve ever had singing in my face, and I need that voice to sing with me forever’,” Neil says. Two years later, they were married, and eight years after that, they completed their debut album, “The Cage”.

Kate sums up Dirt Poor Robins’ goal: “As opposed to the stereotypical rock star who’s being lifted up by the fans, our desire is to lift up our fans. At our best, that’s what we hope to do.”

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