Robin Lane’s “Dirt Road to Heaven” Re-released with Added Song “All I’ll Ever Need”

March 3, Red on Red Records is re-released a re-mastered version of Robin Lane’s current and critically-acclaimed album DIRT ROAD TO HEAVEN with a recent favorite song of Robin’s.  “All I’ll Ever Need,” which found airplay on radio and YouTube is a favorite of Robin’s label, Boston-based company Red on Red Records.

The label's President Justine Covault’s decision to re-release the album is a way of giving “All I’ll Ever Need” an opportunity to be heard by more people. “When I first started working with Robin, I focused on what I could do to best support her, and I chose ‘All I'll Ever Need’ as a standalone single, because I knew the Red on Red audience would love it.  What I didn't know then was what Robin was about to teach me. She opened my ears to her songs -- songs that matter, songs that inspire, songs that soar and then dig a trench in your heart. So I fell in love with, and then picked up, the entire ‘Dirt Road to Heaven’ album, and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made.”

Americana Highways’ Jeff Burger writes about “Dirt Road To Heaven,” “This 11-track latest one, most of which Lane wrote or co-wrote, offers a lot to like. Assisted by a crew that adds accordion, banjo, drums, lap steel, backup vocals, and more, Lane flirts (not for the first time) with country music on songs like “Faded Leaves,” showcases gorgeous vocal work on numbers like “Hurricane Watch,” and turns up the heat on tracks like the sultry “Hunny Dummer,” where she sings, “Turn off the phone, turn on George Jones, and let me show you how I feel.”  The Alternate Root’s Lee Zimmerman cheers, “Consider this dirt road a potential path to achieving that well-deserved greater acclaim for Robin Lane.”  

CBS TV/Sirius XM’s Bill Flanagan told Robin, “I think it might be the best record you’ve ever made.”

Boston Herald’s Brett Milano wrote, “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’)."

 

Digital Streaming Link:  robinlane.hearnow.com

“All I’ll Ever Need” music video:

https://redonredrobinlane.bandcamp.com/album/dirt-road-to-heaven

The album is also on sale on Robin’s website: www.therobinlane.com/shop

  

Robin Lane “Dirt Road To Heaven”

“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.”