Robin Rogers

Guitarist, vocalist, and harmonica ace Robin Rogers’ existence was filled with hard knocks and sad converts, plus a couple of delightful coincidences, and she earned the proper to sing the blues the difficult, old-fashioned method, but sadly, she lived for just a short while after gaining her widest identification as a single artist. Being a runaway teenager in the past due ’60s she scratched out an life nevertheless she could, occasionally sleeping in parks and empty vehicles as she bummed around the united states to areas like Richmond, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Coconut Grove, Florida. Ultimately she was found by the specialists and put into reform college. When she premiered at age 15, she returned to her nomadic methods, and soon acquired developed critical addictions to alcohol and drugs. She also began singing, trained herself electric guitar, and began executing at house celebrations, on street sides, and in coffeehouses. In 1979 Rogers relocated to South Florida and documented for the Sal Spirit imprint, settling in Foot. Lauderdale for a decade and finally kicking her addictions in 1989. A calendar year afterwards in 1990 she transferred to NEW YORK, where she fulfilled her hubby, guitarist Tony Rogers. Both began executing as an acoustic blues duo with Rogers turning increasingly more focus on her harp playing. Manufacturer and drummer Jim Brock noticed the duo and documented a debut record, 2001’s Period for Myself, with them. Right now working with a complete band, including her spouse on acoustic guitar, Rogers authorized using the 95 North label and released 2004’s Crazy Cryin’ Blues, that was again made by Brock. She authorized with Blind Pig Information in 2008. Her 1st recording for the label, Deal with Me Right, made an appearance later that yr. Back the Fire adopted this year 2010, debuting at number 3 within the Billboard blues recording graphs, but Rogers discovered she got inoperable liver tumor right before the recording premiered. She died through the cancer on Dec 17, 2010 at age 55.