My favorite new record is probably Alasdair Roberts’ eighth solo album for Drag City. It’s called Alasdair Roberts so that no one will ever be confused who it is by, and it came out last week and it’s ...

I can't think of a master musician more out of sync with contemporary culture than Alasdair Roberts. The Scottish singer and guitarist tills Albion's millennium of traditional songcraft to express ...

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Secretly Canadian has posted "September 11", a previously unreleased song recorded on September 11, 2001 by the late Jason Molina with Will Oldham, Alasdair Roberts, and Oldham's brother, Paul. On the ...

Every week, Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy have been teaming up with a fellow Drag City artist to cover a different song from a previous decade. First they covered Cat Stevens' 1967 track ...

On the new No Earthly Man (Drag City), Glaswegian singer and guitarist Alasdair Roberts completes a years-long metamorphosis: British Isles folk has rippled through his work ever since he formed the ...

ALASDAIR ROBERTS In the mid -’90s, Alasdair Roberts recorded and released some records under the name Appendix Out. They were sort of folky, sort of weird and fairly accessible. Yet, once he began ...

The Scottish singer-guitarist channels a millennium of traditional songcraft on his upcoming album. Songs We Love: Alasdair Roberts, 'In Dispraise Of Hunger' I can't think of a master musician more ...

Alasdair Roberts declared his love for British folk music in 2001 with The Crook of My Arm (Secretly Canadian), an acoustic solo album of songs he learned from the likes of Shirley Collins, Dick ...