Eric Roberson

There’s something about Soul music that will make it eternally cool. It’s pretty much the most timeless music ever made, music that can be made four years or forty years ago and not only will the only difference between the two be in the sound quality, but neither of them would have sounded out of place at the time. This isn’t to say that it can’t or shouldn’t be brought forward though. Quite a few artists have attempted to modernize the genre but none of them have done it quite as well as Eric Roberson, who manages to integrate the modern and the retro aspects of his music so well that one can’t really tell which aspect is which. His live show is a perfect display of how well they are integrated, whether Roberson is playing with his full band or solo save for an electric guitar and his voice through a loop pedal. However, you don’t go to an Eric Roberson show to marvel at his songwriting (that’s what the records are for) you go to an Eric Roberson show to have a hell of a good time. The man’s charisma is infectious, his band is superb and his voice is never anything less than sublime. In a way, there’s rarely much of a “show” to it, never any hint of a divide between Roberson and the audience, this is what the man loves to do and the best part to him seems to be how he can share it with people far and wide. It would be churlish to deny him that, so find out when the next opportunity for you to see him is and head on down. You will not regret it!