With a rootsy psychedelica
that hints at Dylan, Bowie, Neil Young, The Beatles, Incredible String Band,
The Waterboys, and Jethro Tull, the Slambovian Circus of Dreams ‘Very
Slambovian Christmas’ show is guaranteed to 'flip your switch' and spark the
holiday spirit!
Be prepared for Christmas
songs with a "Slambovian twist” and rockin’ original holiday tunes for a
fun ‘outside the box’ holiday show. The band will charm and disarm you from the
first note - a great night out with family and friends to celebrate the holiday
season!
“They take the stage by storm!” – The NY Times
“Best Band of 2022” – Chronogram Magazine, NY
“Like a snowball full of heart and unabashed beauty with songs of hope and resistant joy." – Jambase.com
Celebrate the holidays and
have ‘A Very Slambovian Christmas’!
Join us for an evening of songs and
stories from legendary singer and songwriter Robin Lane at the beautiful
Beacon Restaurant Live Music Venue and Warwick Cinema in
Marblehead, MA on Thursday November 17.
The evening begins at 6 pm with Robin at a meet
& greet, complete with appetizers. At 7 pm, the highly
acclaimed documentary about Robin Lane, “When Things Go Wrong” will
be shown. The Film’s Director (and Chartbusters’ drummer) Tim
Jackson, will be on hand to offer his insights.
At 8:30 pm, Robin performs a set
of her classic hits and music from her new album, “Dirt Road to Heaven.”
Her band this evening features Marblehead's own John Pfister (bass), Peter Hoffman (guitar), Jim Treacy (cajon, drums).
The Beacon Marblehead
is located at 123 Pleasant Street, in Marblehead, MA
01945. On location parking is readily available.
From her days growing up in LA with a father who
was songwriter and pianist for Dean Martin, to mixing with folk rock stars of
the late 1960s and ‘70s like Neil Young, and marriage to Andy Summers, Robin
moved to Massachusetts built a band and went on record 3 albums on
Warner Bros. as Robin Lane and The Chartbusters. Videos on the new
MTV during those years and into the early ‘80s helped launch the
band nationally. Robin has championed women’s trauma healing with her
Songbird Sings Organization. Motherhood, along with decades of writing and
performing have brought Robin to this point in her amazing life. So many
stories, so many insights learned and healing shared, so much more to come…
This unique evening will fill you with the songs, the stories and
opportunity to get to know Robin Lane.
Robin’s new album, “Dirt Road to Heaven”
on Boston’s Red On Red Records, has received praises from all over the world. Germany’s
MusikReviews says the album’s “songwriting impresses with high quality, the
musical implementation is unreservedly enjoyable.” Alternate
Root’s Lee Zimmerman cites the album’s “confidence
and assurance conveyed through the effort overall.”
British Columbia’s “Go” writes “There is a lot
of life in the songs… a couple of ballads that hit you down deep.” Locally,
Metronome’s Drew McManus calls “Dirt Road to Heaven” “a collection of
American music that rivals Brandi Carlile and Joan Baez.” While Boston Herald’s
Brett Milano says that Robin Lane is ‘still the musical friend who’ll join you
walking that dirt road” or in Marblehead on November 17.
“No
one forgets the first time they heard Robin Lane; it's like losing your
virginity,” writes Peter Felcknor, a long-time superfan, upon hearing
Robin’s new album, Dirt Road to Heaven, out today-August 12, on Red on
Red Records. The album’s theme, writes Boston Herald’s Brett Milano “is she’s
still the musical friend who’ll join you walking that dirt road.” He loves the
album’s inspirational range of music: “Country
on ‘Rodeo Clown,’ rockabilly on ‘Hard Life,’ full-throttle Byrds on ‘Sunshine
Blue Skies.’ There’s also a couple of shiver-inducing ballads that show her
ever-increasing warmth and range….(and) a few helpings of sly humor (see ‘Last
Cute Minute’)."
CBS
TV/Sirius XM’s Bill Flanagan told Robin, “I
think it might be the best record you’ve ever made.”
“All I’ll
Ever Need” is the album’s music video. It features couples being happy together
while Robin sings in the recording studio with her band and in New England’s
beautiful outdoors.
Dirt
Road To Heaven is a collection of Americana
music that sounds great alongside artists such as Brandi Carlile and Joan
Baez. Robin’s motto of “Music is my healing tool” has paved her uniquely uplifting
“dirt road to heaven” process from the get-go. Her journey has become even more
effective and powerful, locally and globally, this
century.
Peter is
one of many fans that have been into Robin Lane since “we saw this petite
blonde live in a NYC punk club” when she was touring behind her rock EP, When
Things Go Wrong in the early 1980s.
The
daughter of Ken Lane, who wrote songs for Dean Martin, and a mother who was a
fashion model, Robin grew up in Los Angeles. She was part of the music community
in the late 1960s. In Laurel Canyon she collaborated with members of Crazy
Horse and sang with Neil Young on "Round and Round (It Won't Be
Long)" on his album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
After a
two-year marriage with future Police guitarist Andy Summers, in the late 1970s
Robin left LA behind, and moved to Boston. She formed Robin Lane and the
Chartbusters, integrating punk and new wave with West Coast folk, and East
Coast rock. Their three albums for Warner Bros. were Robin Lane and the
Chartbusters (1980), the live EP 5 Live, and Imitation
Life (1981). The rock radio-charting song “When Things Go Wrong”
became the 11th music video played on MTV on its first broadcast day in
1981.
In 1985, Robin
started performing solo, at European festivals and opening for artists
including Warren Zevon, John Hiatt, Taj Mahal, Tim Finn, Dave Mason, Steve
Earle, T-Bone Burnett, Richard Thompson. She accepted the Boston
Music Award for Outstanding Female Vocalist in 1988. In 1990 Susanna Hoffs (The
Bangles) recorded Robin's song "Wishing on Telstar" for her first
solo album, When You're a Boy. Robin also sang on the album.
In 1996,
Robin released the album Cat Bird Seat, which showed her evolution
into a subdued and (at times) “country-fied” sound that her super fan
describes as “the angry machine that was the Chartbusters.”
After a 2003 reunion Chartbusters’ album, Piece of
Mind, Robin released solo albums: Out of the Ashes (2011), The
Sweet Candy Collection (2011), and A Woman’s Voice (2013).In
2010 Robin founded Songbird Sings, a Shelburne
Falls, MA-based organization dedicated to helping people work through
and recover from traumatic experiences by writing and recording their own
songs.
In late
2021, Robin signed with Boston’s indie label Red on Red Records, which supports
strong women creators. Label owner Justine Covault is honored Robin’s with the
roster, “Robin writes unflinchingly honest songs that reflect the light and the
dark in the world. Her voice is distinctive and gorgeous. When she plays and
sings, the audience is spellbound.”
