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Robin Holcomb Rockabye Elektra Musician
That's Big Ears Festival Saturday done, with music and conversation from Sam Amidon, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Robin Holcomb, Mary Halvorson, Yasmin Williams, Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet, and Rhiannon Giddens, Francesco Turrisi, and Christian McBride. Closing out the festival with Davóne Tines and more Rhiannon Giddens today!
It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.
On today's episode, I talk to musician Robin Holcomb. Originally from Savannah, Georgia, Robin grew up in the Bay Area and began playing piano when she was six. In 1977, she moved with her partner, composer Wayne Horvitz, to New York City and was one of the foundational members of the NY downtown art scene. Since then, she has composed works for orchestras from Portland to Philly, has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to the League of American Orchestras, and recorded albums for labels from Tzadik to Nonesuch. Her latest album, One Way or Another, vol. 1, was just released on Westerlies Records, and it's great!
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It was 30 years ago today: Robin Holcomb’s second Nonesuch album, Rockabye, was released—original compositions that, per Rolling Stone, create an “eerie landscape that is both deeply traditional and avant-garde.” It also features performances from Wayne Horvitz, who produced the album, and Bill Frisell, among others, helping to create “a powerful work, knotting strands of jazz and bluegrass with lyrics that hang in the air like smoke.” You can hear it here.
It was 20 years ago today: Robin Holcomb's album The Big Time was released on Nonesuch. You can hear it again here.
The Big Time features guitarists Bill Frisell and Tim Young, bassist Keith Lowe, drummer Andy Roth, and Wayne Horvitz, who produced the album, on Hammond B-3. Special guests include Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Doug Wieselman, Danny Barnes, Eyvind Kang, Julie Wolf, Dave Carter, Steve Moore, and Tucker Martine, who engineered and mixed the album.
Timo Andres was the first guest on a special Pirate Radio Edition of Living Music with Nadia Sirota, which took place from various homes via Facebook last night. He performed a work he wrote for Nonesuch's own Bob Hurwitz and a song by Robin Holcomb. Both pieces were meant to be part of his Carnegie Hall recital debut in April, which was canceled due to the coronavirus. You can watch the episode and donate to support the show and its guests here.
"What do you know about Robin Holcomb?" asks Jolene (Julianne Hough) on Dolly Parton's Heartstrings on Netflix. "Who's Robin Holcomb?" asks Emily (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) in reply. "Only the most unsung female singer-songwriter in music history," answers Jolene. "And the best thing to come out of Seattle, Kurt Cobain included," adds Aaron boldly. To which we can only add Spotify & Apple Music playlists of songs from Holcomb's Nonesuch years you can hear here.
