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	Eclipse Booking - Alasdair Roberts
		Alasdair Roberts was born in the 1970s in Swabia, Germany, the son of a German mother and Scottish father.
		This record showed Roberts drinking more deeply than ever before of the dark and ancient well of British song tradition, but this time revealing his consummate intuitiveness and respect for it in creating a record of twelve original songs which at once embody, yet in their own humble way transcend, that tradition.
		Roberts and his companions have managed to make a record about Death which is not the wailing, wallowing, self-pitying ordeal one might expect from such a thing in our present age — in fact it’s celebratory, at times positively joyous.
	www.eclipse-records.com /eclipsebooking/alasdairroberts.html (690 words)

	Blacked Out - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alasdair Roberts, a prominent lawyer, public policy expert, and international authority on transparency in government, examines the evolution of the trend toward governmental openness and how technological developments have assisted the disclosure and dissemination of information.
		Alasdair Roberts is Associate Professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University.
		Alasdair Roberts’ Blacked Out is a fast-paced, well-informed and engrossing account of the emergence of a worldwide movement to hold governments accountable by requiring them to disclose information they would rather withhold to conceal corruption, bureaucratic incompetence, environmental degradation, human rights abuses and other misconduct.
	www.cambridge.org /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521858704 (468 words)

	Alasdair Roberts
		Alasdair will also be appearing solo in Glasgow on 30th January at the launch event for Ballads of the Book, a collaborative project involving divers Scottish writers and musicians.
		Alasdair Roberts and band will be opening for The Decemberists on the westbound leg of their North American tour in November 2006.
		The new Alasdair Roberts record, an 11-song LP provisionally titled The Amber Gatherers, is likely to be released some time in early 2007 on Drag City.
	www.alasdairroberts.com /content/page/2 (391 words)

	Dwars » blog archive » Alasdair Roberts
		Vanavond is er in Paradiso een optreden van de Schotse singer-songwriter Alasdair Roberts.
		Alasdair Roberts treedt vanavond op als voorpogramma van de Amerikaanse harpiste en zangeres Joanna Newsom.
		Of Alasdair Roberts er dan ook weer bij is, is mij niet bekend.
	dwars.radio6.nl /2007/04/27/alasdair-roberts (243 words)

	Dusted Features [ Roberts' Rules: An Interview With Alasdair Roberts ]
		The death ballads gathered by Alasdair Roberts for No Earthly Man are exemplary in both content and configuration, centering on the incremental repetition that scholar Francis Gummere noted as one of the ballad’s principal structures.
		So the historical resonances in Roberts’ music are many: within the body of the songs themselves, there is a traditionalist discourse, a counter-discourse of radicalization, and a desire to search out one’s true voice through traditional music.
		Whether the death is intentional, as in the murderous mistress in “Lord Ronald,” or accidental, as with the anthropomorphic tale of “Molly Bawn,” Roberts etches the songs with an observational air, precluding vocal pathos for musical settings that loosely parallel the narrative.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /features/401 (1716 words)

	Alasdair Roberts
		A native of Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, Professor Roberts began his BA in politics at Queen's University in 1979.
		He received a JD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1984, a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1994.
		From 2001, Professor Roberts taught at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse Universit.
	www.aroberts.us (313 words)

	decemberists + alasdair roberts @ the paramount \| Seattle Metblogs
		The Decemberists + Alasdair Roberts // The Paramount // 17 November 2006
		Alasdair Roberts, whom more worldly fans of the Glasgow indie scene might remember from Appendix Out, stands in the center.
		The Decemberists are often accused of cribbing heavily from the stylings of English folksongs; so their choice of a Scottish singer whose music is steeped in traditional ballads of the British Isles is an interesting one.
	seattle.metblogs.com /2006/11/20/decemberists-alasdair-roberts-the-paramount (946 words)

	Maxwell School of Syracuse University: Maxwell Perspective
		Alasdair Roberts, director of the Campbell Institute since September, worked with assistant director Bethany Walawender (center) and office coordinator Kelley Coleman to pull off the Symposium on Governance and Public Security.
		Alasdair Roberts began his job as the new director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute on September 4, 2001, at a time when political headlines focused on Gary Condit and stem-cell research.
		For Roberts, leading the Campbell Institute—named for Maxwell’s long-time former dean, Alan “Scotty” Campbell—is “an unusual opportunity to contribute to public debate.” An associate professor of public administration with a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard (and J.D. from the University of Toronto), Roberts is an academician first.
	www.maxwell.syr.edu /perspective/Spr02_campbell.htm (665 words)

	Alasdair Roberts: No Earthly Man - PopMatters Music Review
		The first time I heard Alasdair Roberts he was a member of Appendix Out, doing his fragile-yet-heartfelt rendition of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in a way that evoked as much emotion as the original.
		But it is basically an anomaly, as Roberts returns to the dark and morbid with "The Two Brothers" -- the lone difference with this song being that the arrangement is a cross between being orchestral in parts and a rag-tag, disconnected, Waits-ian collage of noises in others.
		Roberts gives his best performance on this song, despite the fact he rarely reaches for notes over the eight minute epic.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/r/robertsalasdair-noearthly.shtml (747 words)

	Palimpsest Festival 2006 - Alasdair Roberts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the same year as 'The Night Is Advancing' Alasdair released his first collection of interpretation of tradional British and American folk songs on 'The Crook Of My Arm' released on Secretly Canadian.
		This record showed Roberts drinking more deeply than ever before of the dark and ancient well of British song tradition, but this time revealing his consummate intuitiveness and respect for it in creating a record of twelve original songs which at once embody, yet in their own humble way transcend, that tradition.
		Roberts and his companions have managed to make a record about Death which is not the wailing, wallowing, self-pitying ordeal one might expect from such a thing in our present age - in fact it's celebratory, at times positively joyous.
	www.palimpsest-festival.co.uk /aliroberts.html (586 words)

	KORK
		Alasdair Roberts was born in the 1970s in Swabia, Germany, the son of a German mother and Scottish father.
		It’s true that Roberts’ records with Appendix Out had, however abstractedly, drawn on some of the atmosphere of the traditional music of the British Isles; The Crook of My Arm, however, showed him embracing it fully, with twelve solo guitar-andvoice versions of Scottish, English and Irish folk songs and ballads.
		Roberts and his companions have managed to make a record about Death which is not the wailing, wallowing, self-pitying ordeal one might expect from such a thing in our present age — in fact it’s celebratory, at times positively joyous.
	www.korkagency.com /na/html/roster/ala.html (690 words)

	Alasdair Roberts - “Farewell Sorrow” (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whenever we think of Home, in humble deference to its capital letter, its importance, our mind rests on the handful of neighbours we know by name, the stairs up which with sodden voice we sing through a weekend’s dark, the stranger’s usual faces, the light that settles in the comfort of the corners, the familiarity.
		Roberts’ record sits in stark relief, then, to this (or, my) cultural memory of Scotland, it’s an album characterised by, made special by its lack, its refusal, its withdrawal from the modern.
		Roberts’ magic(k), however, isn’t to be found in the simplistic ‘breaks & continuities’ rhetoric of musical tradition but in the refusal to cede defeat to a living he can’t feel and won’t sing.
	home.graffiti.net /cozen:graffiti.net/archives/roberts.html (661 words)

	Amazon.com: No Earthly Man: Alasdair Roberts: Music
		Roberts may not have the most supple voice, but his brougish tenor carries ample emotion, it's just that the emotion here is decidedly downcast, with the subject matter ranging from infanticide to death at sea to the poisoning of a youngster.
		Alasdair Roberts, late of Appendix Out, with the aid of the brothers Oldham, brings trad tales of spare and aching beauty.
		Roberts' tremulous voice serves the material most naturally and the arrangements are simple but wise.
	www.amazon.com /No-Earthly-Man-Alasdair-Roberts/dp/B0007L7PSM (601 words)

	The Horse: Alasdair Roberts, Farewell Sorrow (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Farewell Sorrow is unflashy, even antiquated, and Roberts' slight vocals are not an immediate pleasure, but this is an album of enormous emotional depth.
		Roberts' debut, The Crook Of My Arm, consisted of sublime interpretations of traditional Scottish songs, but this is essentially all his own work.
		Roberts is unassertive and boyish, but like Will Oldham, the use of a restrained moral compass serves to make the dark fringes of life, where obsession and madness set in, even more inviting, as Roberts sings of a brutal past in an inappropriately naïve voice.
	www.the-horse.net /alasdairroberts.htm (384 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Appendix Out: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Roberts' new album can surely be mournful when it needs to, but it would be misleading to categorize the work as a whole as "melancholy".
		Alasdair Roberts's No Earthly Man (Drag City, 2005) displays the same virtues of its predecessor but the material is generally weaker (drawn from traditional death ballads), and too many songs seem influenced by the alt-country fad of the USA.
		Sporadicamente, Roberts non riesce a fare a meno delle sue liriche eleganti (influenzate dalle favole e dalla poesia romantica) e costruisce una canzone attorno una bella immagine senza indugiare troppo sulla musica, ma in generale è riuscito a confezionare una convincente rielaborazione degli stili narrativi del vecchio secolo.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol6/appendix.html (1206 words)

	The Daily Growl: Alasdair Roberts
		I had come across Roberts before, but in name only, and it wasn’t until I saw him supporting Joanna Newsom at the Barbican last month that I actually heard his music.
		Given that almost everyone in the hall that night were there to see Joanna and her only, the support was largely irrelevant, but it was great to have such an accomplished artist perform as we waited for indie-folk’s greatest harpist.
		From some internet research, I found out that Alasdair was brought up in Callander, Central Scotland, and was ‘discovered’ by Will Oldham (there are conflicting reports as to whether that was though demos or a gig), who released the debut 7 inch by Roberts’ former band Appendix Out on his Palace Records in 1996.
	thedailygrowl.blogspot.com /2007/02/alasdair-roberts.html (813 words)

	Alasdair Roberts - No Earthly Man - Review - Stylus Magazine
		Roberts move to Drag City shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.
		It’s almost as though Roberts put it on the record to prove something: as though he wants us to know he can be as avant-garde as anyone else.
		And, as anyone familiar with his workcould tell you, Roberts voice is unlike anything extant—it is as ancient and needed as the ballads he sings.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=2907 (722 words)

	Folk singer's grave songs take on a life of their own - The Boston Globe
		Alasdair Roberts, the singer from Glasgow who performed solo Tuesday night at PA's Lounge, has spoken of being ''doomed" to a career in folk music.
		''And now I'm going to take this," he muttered between the splintering, chiming notes of his acoustic guitar, ''to the next level of velocity." Roberts is bent and darkened by the weight of tradition, in the centuries-old material he covers and in the antique imagery of his own songs.
		But watching him bent almost double over his guitar, eyes shut, his long hands in the classic ''clawhammer" style -- in which strings are not plucked but down-struck with the back of the nail, to explosive effect -- one sees his toughness.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/09/02/folk_singers_grave_songs_take_on_a_life_of_their_own (436 words)

	DOA - Alasdair Roberts - The Crook of My Arm
		This album is basically just Roberts playing his acoustic guitar - and make no mistake about it, he is an amazing guitarist - and his quiet yet wide-ranging vocals.
		Roberts is taking a modern look at some very old or old-feeling folk songs from his country, something you don't get to hear much of.
		They're quite involved and really quite lovely, and Roberts' vocals and guitar are the perfect means of presenting them.
	www.adequacy.net /review.php?reviewid=2820 (494 words)

	Alasdair Roberts: Farewell Sorrow - PopMatters Music Review
		After all, that is the underlying principle of folk music: that its instantaneous recognizability through the recycling of melodies allows the "folk" to feel as though it belongs to them, as though they could almost join in, as though the music really emerged from themselves and the body of untutored musical knowledge they've effortlessly accrued.
		In two different songs she is likened to an instrument, as something he can play, something that can allow him to give expression to something otherwise inchoate and not necessarily benevolent.
		It's no surprise for singer/songwriters to be ambivalent about love, but Roberts constructs the images so they work in both directions, so that the vagaries of his love are also symbolic of the difficulties of creativity, the pursuit of an elusive truth that is marred by its capture.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/r/robertsalasdair-farewell.shtml (529 words)

	Venus Zine: Alasdair Roberts
		Alasdair Roberts is playing and you’re feeling all the better for it.
		Roberts, a Scottish singer/songwriter, is quietly building a following with his rootsy organic folk music of the British Isles.
		It just might be in a tavern in the wilds of Scotland where you’re amongst friends, where you’re embraced by the warm mellifluous melodies of Roberts.
	www.venuszine.com /articles/music/live_reviews/1504/alasdair_roberts (294 words)

	Raven Sings The Blues - Indie Rock News Media MP3s
		Scottish singer-songwriter Alasdair Roberts has had a penchant for the folk tales of his homeland.
		They retain the same effortless feelings of wisdom and timelessness but the music has been updated a bit; and his past work with Will Oldham shines through in a feeling of worn immediacy that tugs at your emotions in ways that classic folk songs might not.
		Robert's new album is out soon on Drag City records.
	ravensingstheblues.blogspot.com /2007/01/alasdair-roberts.html (270 words)

	Stinkweeds Online Music: Your independent source for indie, rare, new, import CDs, LPs and reviews.
		The most interesting part about these songs is that Roberts chose to present them without much in the way of traditional folk instrumentation, though his vocal delivery is absolutely authentic.
		Consider "Lord Ronald", the first track, which is delivered in a heavy low Scots brogue, but over a rich and persistent drone of keyboard and cello that acts almost as a choral voice giving the song a haunting hymnal aura.
		Alasdair Roberts has gone out on a bit of a limb with this release, moving further away from the indie rock that brought his previous projects attention, and into the underbelly of songcatchers and the oral tradition, but he does so with so much skill and enthusiasm that I for one can't stop listening.
	www.stinkweeds.com /review_detail.cfm?rvID=635 (349 words)

	version - the other music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Roberts' relationship with the Bonnie 'Prince' rose to the fore again this year with the album No Earthly Man (Drag City), on which Oldham plays and takes on production duties.
		During this period, Roberts' interaction with Jason Molina and Songs:Ohia was initiated with an Appendix Out/Songs:Ohia split 7" and Roberts' appearance on a number of Molina's recordings.
		Roberts continues to remix timeless folk tales into contemporary alt-rock operas, always with a voice drunk on longing, lust and loss.
	www.version.org.uk /ar.html (217 words)

	Macadamia: Alasdair Roberts at the Luminere
		To get a sense of what Roberts sounds like, I recommend his session on Planet Claire, with six full-length MP3s to download; a mix of new songs and traditional.
		But the practice seems to be to sit on the floor a few feet in front of the stage, and that suited last night's music well.
		Roberts played a few songs from No Earthly Man, together with ones from other albums, a couple of new songs, and a couple of guitar pieces.
	www.kittywompus.com /macadamia/archives/000363.html (856 words)

	Ink 19 :: Alasdair Roberts
		Without even realizing it, this is the album I've been waiting for from Alasdair Roberts.
		Composed entirely of traditional English, Irish and Scottish death ballads, No Earthly Man sees Roberts further refining the folk sound of his previous album, Farewell Sorrow, while revisiting and expanding the experimental instincts of Appendix Out's swan song, The Night is Advancing.
		Alasdair Fraser / Muriel Johnstone / Natalie Haas
	www.ink19.com /issues/march2005/musicReviews/musicR/alasdairRoberts.html (292 words)

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