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A 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

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ABOUT TERRY ROBB SHORT BIO A dynamic, unforgettable fingerstyle guitar virtuoso, Terry Robb has redefined acoustic blues guitar with his signature fingerpicking style. Drawing international acclaim from worldwide audiences, music critics and his distinguished peers, Robb’s unique blues sound, incorporating elements from the Mississippi Delta music tradition, ragtime, country, swing, and jazz, has made him a legend among blues musicians in his prolific music career spanning four decades.

BIOGRAPHY “Unquestionably, Terry Robb ranks right up there with the heavy hitters, a player of dazzling skill and technique.” “Exquisite musicality and superlative skill.” “One of the best players, on acoustic and electric, embracing a range of blues styles and then some.” These are just a few of the accolades paid to acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Terry Robb by Vintage Guitar Magazine and Living Blues since the release of his latest album Cool On The Bloom in November, 2016. And there are plenty more.

In his prolific music career spanning four decades, Terry Robb has been praised by Rolling Stone, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Player, Down Beat, Guitar World, Blues Blast Magazine, Oprah’s O Magazine, and countless more esteemed journals. He has toured nationally with Steve Miller and Buddy Guy, appeared on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien Show” and “West Coast Live with Sedge Thomson,” and performed as special guest of The Oregon Symphony and NBA Trail Blazers.

A dynamic live performer, Terry Robb is a fingerpicking powerhouse who commands attention from any stage. 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 recordings feature collaborations with John Fahey, Eddy Clearwater, Maria Muldaur, Ike Willis, Curtis Salgado and Glenn Moore.

“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,” said Riccardo Bragga, talent buyer for the Vallamaggia Blues Festival in Switzerland. And on learning of Terry’s addition as faculty member of the 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.”

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Terry Robb has also gained the praise and following of fans across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and beyond. Video from a live performance by Terry at a California performing arts venue in 2007 has drawn more than 985,000 views on YouTube, and counting. Fans from all parts of the globe, of all ages, are astounded by the virtuosity of Terry Robb on acoustic blues guitar.

Since his Living Blues chart-topping release Stop This World in 1996, Terry Robb has toured the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, from Alaska to Arizona and New England to the Carolinas, and Western Europe as a solo artist. He has headlined festivals, performing arts centers, and concert halls, regularly drawing audiences of 100 or more, selling out many smaller venues.

The multitude of awards Terry Robb has received speak 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, and he has an award named after him in recognition of his landmark contributions to acoustic blues in the Pacific Northwest. Terry Robb was awarded the Muddy Award for Best Acoustic Guitar by the CBA for 19 consecutive years – from inception of the award category in 1992 until it was renamed the “Terry Robb” Muddy Award for Acoustic Guitar in 2011, which is presented annually to a Pacific Northwest guitarist. In 2017, the CBA presented him 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 steel•string guitar icon John Fahey. At age twenty-four, Robb produced and played accompaniment on Fahey’s album Let Go, which garnered a four-star review by Rolling Stone and led to numerous collaborations for which Robb served as Fahey’s producer, arranger and guitar accompanist. As an acclaimed producer and session guitarist, Robb has contributed to countless award-winning projects. He produced 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 music and the luminaries with whom he has worked. These include the Hollywood biopic “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” about the late 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.

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REVIEWS “One of the best players, on acoustic and electric, embracing a range of blues styles and then some.” - Dan Forte, 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

"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

“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

"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

“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

“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

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SELECTED PERFORMANCE HISTORY  Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, Oregon  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  Cathedral Park Jazz Festival, Portland, Oregon  Carolina Downhome Blues Fest, 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  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 City, New York  Lillehammer Blues Festival, Lillehammer, Norway  New Fairfield Concert Series, New Fairfield, Connecticut  New Haven Folk Society, New Haven, Connecticut  New York State Blues Festival, Syracuse, New York  Newport Performing Arts Center, Newport, Oregon  North By Northwest, Portland, Oregon  Peninsula Arts Center, Long Beach, Washington  Pickathon, Portland, Oregon  POPS Performing Arts Center, Dunsmuir, California  Portland Jazz Festival, Portland, Oregon  Railhead Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada  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  Vancouver International Guitar Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada  Vallemaggia Blues Festival, Ticino, Switzerland  Walla Walla Guitar Festival, Walla Walla, Washington  Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, Oregon  Waterfront Blues Festival, Portland, Oregon  West Coast Live with Sedge Thompson, San Francisco, California  Winthrop Rhythm & Blues Festival, Twisp, Washington  Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada

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AWARDS & HIGHLIGHTS: 2017

Vintage Guitar Magazine Hit List Review 2017 Blues Blast Music Award nominee: and “Cool on the Bloom” video exclusive, Best Acoustic Album: November 2017 “Cool on the Bloom”

2017 Britt Music Festival with George 2017 Waterfront Blues Festival, Portland, Thorogood, Jacksonville, OR OR

2017 “Paul deLay” Lifetime Achievement Faculty, 2017 Britt Festival Guitar Muddy Award, Cascade Blues Assn (CBA) Weekend, Jacksonville, OR

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AWARDS & HIGHLIGHTS: PAST YEARS ● Featured in Eight Acoustic Blues Masters article by Guitar World magazine (2015) ● Faculty, Accent On Music Guitar Seminar (2015) ● Featured in book Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist (2014) ● Featured in film “In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey” (2012) ● CBA Namesake Muddy Award: "Terry Robb” Best Acoustic Guitar (2011) ● Featured in documentary film “Portland Mojo:How Stumptown Got the Blues” (2010) ● CBA Muddy Award: Best Acoustic Guitar (19 consecutive years 1992-2010) ● Oregon Music Hall of Fame Inductee (2009) ● Featured in Oprah’s Top 20 Christmas Playlist in O Magazine (2009) ● Featured in film “Touch Me Someplace I Can Feel” about John Callahan (2007) ● Faculty, Centrum Steel and Slide Guitar Festival and Workshop (2007) ● Roots Player Spotlight feature in March issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine (2006) ● CBA Muddy Award: Best New Album, Resting Place recorded in Memphis at Sam Phillips Studios, reaches #9 on Living Blues charts (Yellow Dog Records) (2005) ● House producer, Burnside Records (1993-2005) ● Produced Alice Stuart’s Can’t Find No Heaven nominated for Grammy and Blues Music Awards (2002) ● Heart Made of Steel performance on TV program “Oregon Art Beat” (2001) ● CBA Muddy Award: Best Traditional Act - Terry Robb Trio (2000) ● Oregon Symphony guest soloist (2000, 1998) ● Produced John Fahey’s performance of “Desperate Man Blues” in Academy Award- nominated film “The Horse Whisperer” (1998) ● Resident session guitarist, Oregon Catholic Press (1984-1998) ● Stop This World reaches #1 on Living Blues charts (Burnside Records) (1997) ● National tour with Steve Miller Band (1997) ● Guest of NBC's “Late Night with Conan O'Brien” (1997) ● CBA Muddy Award: Best Traditional Act - Terry Robb Trio (1997) ● Faculty, Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival (1997) ● Produced John Fahey’s live performance at Freight & Salvage and instructional DVDs for Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop (1996) ● National tour with Buddy Guy (1995) ● CBA Hall of Fame Inductee (1994) ● Guest soloist of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers (1991) ● Featured on Emmy-Award winning “Claymation Christmas” T.V. program (1987) ● Produced John Fahey’s Let Go rated "Very Good" by Rolling Stone (1984)

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RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE ● John Fahey ● Mississippi John Hurt ● Ry Cooder ● Eric Clapton ● Lightnin’ Hopkins ● Davey Graham

VIDEOS

Madison Avenue Shuffle Christmas in Istanbul https://youtu.be/2rBrtZOrSLk https://youtu.be/mgYJXbEjB-A

Judge Boushay Blues Soc Hop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNnSdwm9_8o https://youtu.be/PmLwFK2CWC8

Grama Jean Ham Hound Crave https://youtu.be/rNLehxFBO7A https://youtu.be/y7PpKWmVNx0

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SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY Streaming → Cool on the Bloom, NiaSounds, 2016 Featured in Vintage Guitar Magazine “Hit List Reviews”

Blues Blast Music Award nominee: Best Acoustic Album

“Unbridled transcendent fretboard mastery…From the opening tune "Soc Hop" on, it becomes clear that a guitarist's guitarist is taking you for a fancy ride.” – Living Blues Magazine

“Right out of the gate Robb is a force to be reckoned with.” – Blues Blast Magazine When I Play My Blues Guitar, Burnside Records, 2014 Reissue of the popular solo acoustic blues and ragtime guitar album released by Burnside Records in 2002, distinguishing Terry Robb as one of the top acoustic blues guitarists.

"His playing on Tommy Johnson's 'Bye and Bye', or on Furry Lewis' 'Judge Boushay Blues' is stellar..." - Living Blues Magazine

Hymn, Oregon Catholic Press, 2013 Terry’s second collaboration with OCP brings his first hymnal album, a 12-song collection of solo acoustic guitar instrumentals offering artistic renditions of traditional and contemporary hymns and spirituals. Terry's signature finger- picking style, often referred to as American primitivism, brings a unique sound to every song on the album. Adapting this inventive style to newly arranged medleys, Terry offers distinctive interpretations of time-tested classics.

Muddyvishnu, Psychedelta Records, 2012 A high-energy electric and acoustic album mixing blues to jazz rock, Muddyvishnu is best described as Muddy Waters meets Mahavishnu. The album includes mostly all original instrumentals and features Terry's electric band, with special guest Bobby Torres (Joe Cocker, Tom Jones).

“Robb is one of the cleanest guitarists with such melodic runs that even when he runs wild, its roots are thick as the redwoods or murky as Muddy’s waters." – Blues Revue

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Resting Place, Yellow Dog Records, 2006 A tour-de-force of acoustic blues guitar recorded at Sam Phillips Studio with engineer Roland Janes and some of Memphis’ finest: drummer Willie Hall (Isaac Hayes, The Bo- Keys), bassist Paul Taylor (North Mississippi Allstars), and keyboardist Charlie Wood (B.B. King).

Best New Album Muddy Award by Cascade Blues Assn

“A strong player who ignores clichés." – Blues Revue Heart Made of Steel, Burnside Records, 2000 A unique ensemble of acoustic guitar and brass, Robb's acoustic blues, ragtime and swing guitar playing combined with tight jazz horn arrangements results in a phenomenal recording. “Perfectly agreeable solo and duet performances…several equally pleasing numbers [with] his “all-star blues orchestra.” – Down Beat

Hit It ‘N Quit It, Lucky Records, 1997 Following their sold-out Pacific Northwest performances, Salgado and Robb released their long-awaited duet album of Chicago-style blues traditionals and originals, including studio and live recordings. The quartet included Butch Cousins (Terry Hanck) on drums and John Mazzocco (John Lee Hooker) on bass. A national tour with Steve Miller culminated in a guest appearance on The Conan O’Brien Show. “One of the best blues albums of the year!” – Southland Blues

Stop This World, Burnside Records, 1996 An all-star line-up of Curtis Salgado (Robert Cray Band) with guest tracks by Maria Muldaur and Eddy Clearwater and Robb's fingerstyle guitar originals, Delta blues traditionals and the title-track cover of Mose Allison's "Stop This World" launched the album to #1 on the Living Blues charts.

“From the opening notes of the CD, Terry Robb’s mastery of acoustic blues guitar genres is in evidence. This release will hold up to repeated listenings.” – Colorado Blues Society

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SELECTED SESSIONOGRAPY  Curtis Salgado, The Beautiful Lowdown (2016, Alligator Records)  Revenge Of Blind Joe Death: The John Fahey Tribute Album (2012, Takoma)  The Portland Guitar Society Presents: Silver Jubilee (2012, Portland Guitar)  Acoustic Guitar Summit, O, Christmas Three (2012, Accent on Music)  John Callahan, Purple Winos In The Rain (2006, Bone Clone Records)  John Fahey & Friends: Friends of Fahey Tribute (2006, Slakertone Records)  Duffy Bishop, Ooh Wee! (2003, Trillium Records)  Portland's Genuine Blues (2003, Allegro Blues Records)  Lay Down My Old Guitar: A Tribute to John Jackson (2003, Centrum Recordings)  American Roots Songbook (2002, St. Clair)  Pickathon 2002 (2003, Mountain Lab Productions)  Alice Stuart, Can’t Find No Heaven (2002, Burnside Records)  Portland's Best Blues (2002, Raw Records)  The Cascade Blues Association Presents: The Acoustic Roots and Blues Heritage Festival (2001,Cascade)  Acoustic Guitar Summit, Summit Meeting (2000, Bay View Music)  Cascade Blues Association's Anniversary Hall of Fame Tribute (2000, Cascade)  Acoustic Guitar Summit (1998, Accent on Music)  The Rounder Christmas Album: Must Be Santa! (1995, Rounder Records)  Return Of The Repressed: The John Fahey Anthology (1994, Rhino Records)  John Fahey, Let Go (1984, Varrick Records)  Rose City Blues Festival (1987, Po-Town Records)  John Fahey with Terry Robb, Popular Songs of Christmas & New Year’s (1983, Varrick Records)

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY  John Callahan biopic, “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” (2018, Iconoclast Productions / Amazon Studios)  “In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey” (2012, Tamarack Productions)  John Callahan biopic, “Touch Me Someplace I Can Feel” (2007, Selfmade Films)  “Portland Mojo: How Stumptown Got the Blues” (2010, Loblolly Boy Productions / Second Sleep Specialties)  “The Horse Whisperer” (1998, Touchstone Pictures / Buena Vista Pictures)

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PHOTOS

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CONTACT WEBSITE & WIKIPEDIA www.terryrobb.com www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Robb

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MANAGEMENT & BOOKING Katie Robb, MSM PO BOX 82946, Portland, Oregon, 97282-0946 Email: [email protected] | Phone: (503) 956-6988

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RECORD LABEL NiaSounds | 918 SW Yamhill Street, Portland, Oregon, 97205 Email: [email protected] | Phone: (503) 245-9886