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` An award-winning fingerstyle guitar virtuoso whose signature style has redefined acoustic blues guitar and made him a legend among blues musicians. Contents ● About Terry Robb ● Discography ● Recommended If You Like ● Photos ● Videos ● Contact Page 2 of 13 ABOUT TERRY ROBB SHORT BIO TERRY ROBB is hailed by music critics as one of the top acoustic blues guitarists of our time, garnering the praise of worldwide audiences in his prolific music career spanning four decades. A legend among blues musicians, the award-winning fingerstyle guitar virtuoso incorporates music from the Mississippi Delta, ragtime, country, swing, and jazz, lending an unmistakable one-man-band sound to his signature fingerpicking style and dynamic live performances. BIOGRAPHY TERRY ROBB has been praised by Rolling Stone, Vintage Guitar, Down Beat, Acoustic Guitar, Living Blues, Guitar Player, Blues Blast, Guitar World, Blues Matters, Blues Revue, Oprah's O Magazine and countless more esteemed journals, placing him among the top acoustic blues guitarists of our time. Incorporating elements from the Mississippi Delta, ragtime, country, swing and jazz, Robb is a dynamic live performer with an unmistakable one- man-band sound. His signature fingerpicking style has earned him international acclaim from distinguished music critics, esteemed peers and fans of all ages. “Unquestionably, Robb ranks right up there with the heavy hitters, a player of dazzling skill and technique,” said Frank Matheis of Living Blues Magazine. “It’s the rare guitarist who can whip off a killer 12-bar blues solo, then turn around and fingerpick Travis-style with speed and subtlety,” mused Ian Zack of Acoustic Guitar Magazine. “One of the best players, on acoustic and electric, embracing a range of blues styles and then some,” noted Dan Forte of Vintage Guitar Magazine. In his prolific music career spanning four decades, Terry Robb has toured nationally with Steve Miller and Buddy Guy, and appeared as a guest of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” The Oregon Symphony and NBA Trail Blazers. Regarded as a “bonafide blues guitar star,” he has shared the stage with B.B. King, Albert Lee, Joe Cocker, Bo Diddley, David Crosby, Leo Kottke, Johnny Winter, George Thorogood and many more all-stars. With more than 15 releases under his name, Robb’s award-winning discography features collaborations with steel string guitar icon John Fahey, Eddy Clearwater, Maria Muldaur, Ike Willis, Curtis Salgado and Glenn Moore. Since his blues chart-topping release Stop This World in 1996, Robb has toured the Pacific and Atlantic coasts as a solo artist, from the Yukon to Arizona and New England to the Carolinas. Tours of Western Europe have brought him to Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Norway. He has headlined festivals, performing arts centers, and concert halls, regularly drawing audiences of 100 or more, selling out many smaller venues. Page 3 of 13 “Finger gawkers flood to his shows,” wrote Frank Matheis of Living Blues. “Never seen in our latitudes is a stratospheric guitarist like Robb, a true six-stringed sorcerer, with absolutely stunning fingerpicking,” remarked Riccardo Bragga, artistic director of the Vallamaggia Blues Festival in Switzerland. And on learning of Terry’s addition as faculty member of the 2017 Britt Music & Arts Festival Guitar Weekend, fellow blues musician and educator Michael “Hawkeye” Herman noted “Terry is an A-1 teacher, player/performer, a great guy, and an all- around superb addition to the event.” Terry Robb has also gained the praise and following of fans from all parts of the globe. Robb’s guitar virtuosity has garnered him more than 1.3 million views on YouTube, and over 15,000 followers across all social and subscriber platforms. The multitude of awards Terry Robb has received speaks to his seminal talent as a blues guitarist. Robb has been inducted into both the Oregon Music Hall of Fame and Cascade Blues Association (CBA) Hall of Fame. He single-handedly defined the CBA Muddy Award for Best Acoustic Guitar, winning the prize for 19 consecutive years since its inception in 1992. In 2011, the CBA renamed the award in his honor: the “Terry Robb” Muddy Award for Acoustic Guitar. This eponymous award recognizes Robb’s landmark contributions to acoustic blues guitar, and is bestowed annually on a Pacific Northwest guitarist. In 2017, by a vote of his peers, the CBA presented him with the Muddy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Terry Robb achieved greatness at an early age, performing with Ramblin’ Rex of Frank Zappa / Captain Beefheart fame, Canned Heat’s Henry Vestine, and John Fahey. At age 24, Robb produced and played accompaniment on Fahey’s album Let Go, which garnered a four-star review by Rolling Stone. The album’s success spawned numerous collaborations in which Robb served as Fahey’s producer, arranger and guitar accompanist, including a song selected for the soundtrack of “The Horse Whisperer.” As an acclaimed producer and session guitarist, Robb has contributed to countless award-winning projects. He produced and played accompaniment on Alice Stuart’s album Can’t Find No Heaven, nominated for Grammy and Blues Music Awards. Steeped in Americana ethnomusicology, Robb has been featured in numerous films, books, and articles profiling American roots and blues, and the luminaries with whom he has worked. These include the 2018 Hollywood biopic “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” about cartoonist John Callahan, the documentary film “Portland Mojo: How Stumptown Got the Blues,” and the biography Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist. Terry Robb was born in British Columbia, raised in the United States and resides in Portland, Oregon. Page 4 of 13 SELECTED REVIEWS “From the first listen, Robb's guitar playing can blow you away...he's a favorite player in the Northwest, and a former buddy of John Fahey. Then it all makes sense.” - John Heidt, Vintage Guitar Magazine “Finger gawkers flood to his shows…unquestionably, Robb ranks right up there with the heavy hitters, a player of dazzling skill and technique. He could go to any guitar festival and show them a few chords.” - Frank Matheis, Living Blues “Eight Acoustic Blues Masters… an inspiring assembly of guitar masters really laying it down on acoustic guitar…Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Tommy Emmanuel...and Terry Robb. – Acoustic Nation, Guitar World "Much of the blues press places Robb at the top of the heap of acoustic and electric pickers globally....a force to be reckoned with." - Tee Watts, Blues Blast “One of the best players, on acoustic and electric, embracing a range of blues styles and then some.” - Dan Forte, Vintage Guitar Magazine "It's the rare guitarist who can whip off a killer 12-bar blues solo, then turn around and fingerpick Travis-style with speed and subtlety. Yet Portland, Oregon, guitarist and singer Terry Robb does just that." - Ian Zack, Acoustic Guitar “What distinguishes this LP [Let Go by John Fahey] is Robb’s superb production…Robb is an extraordinarily sympathetic accompanist to John Fahey.” - Kurt Loder, Rolling Stone “Whether sliding or fingerpicking, his technique is clean and articulate; no matter how busy the material gets...it never sounds crowded or overblown." - Genevieve Williams, Blues Revue “This man’s articulate playing is perfect, and I really do mean perfect, this music is addictive." - Pete Innes, Blues Matters "Terry Robb without question is one of the finest guitarists playing the blues…he is the master of both fingerpicking and bottleneck styles with expert original and innovative readings of Delta blues, rags, spirituals, and whatever else he puts his mind to musically." - Greg Johnson, President, Cascade Blues Association “A bonafide blues guitar star.” – Mark Bialczak, The Post-Standard "A virtuoso on the acoustic blues guitar." - Don Hamilton, The Oregonian Page 5 of 13 SELECTED PERFORMANCE HISTORY • Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, Oregon • Back Room, Berkeley, California • Biscuits & Blues, San Francisco, California • Boise City Blues Festival, Boise, Idaho • Boonville Folk-Blues Festival, Mendocino, California • Britt Music & Arts Festival, Jacksonville, Oregon • Bronze, Blues & Brews Festival, Joseph, Oregon • Bumpershoot, Seattle, Washington • Carolina Downhome Blues Festival, Camden, South Carolina • Centrum Steel and Slide Guitar Festival, Port Angeles, Washington • Concordia University Blues Festival, Portland, Oregon • Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, California • Hermann’s Jazz Club, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada • Hi-Fi Music Hall, Eugene, Oregon • Hult Center, Eugene, Oregon • Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California • Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts, Port Angeles, Washington • Jones Beach Amphitheater, Long Island, New York • “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” New York, New York • Lillehammer Blues Festival, Lillehammer, Norway • New Haven Folk Society, New Haven, Connecticut • New York State Blues Festival, Syracuse, New York • North By Northwest, Portland, Oregon • Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon • Pickathon, Portland, Oregon • Portland Jazz Festival, Portland, Oregon • Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey • Railhead Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada • Rockwood Music Hall, New York, New York • The Blue Café, Long Beach, California • The Mint, Sun Valley, Idaho • The Rhythm Room, Phoenix, Arizona • The Triple Door, Seattle, Washington • The Zephyr Club, Salt Lake City, Utah • Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Trumansburg, New York • Vancouver International Guitar Festival,