The award-winning Portland-based bluesman will play June 22
Acoustic fingerstyle blues guitar virtuoso Terry Robb will perform Saturday, June 22, at the Talent Club.
Robb, born in Vancouver and based in Portland, won the Muddy Award for best acoustic guitar so many times that the Cascade Blues Association eventually attached his name to the trophy permanently.
Robb has toured the country with Buddy Guy, Steve Miller, Robin Trower and John Fahey, appeared on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” entertained the crowd at Portland Trail Blazers games, and collaborated with the Oregon Symphony. During his multi-decade career he has released 15 albums and shown himself to be a master of nearly every blues style imaginable.
A member of the Oregon Music Hall of Fame, Robb has been praised by Rolling Stone, Acoustic Guitar, Down Beat, Guitar Player, Vintage Guitar, Living Blues and Oprah’s O Magazine, extolling his talents as a finger-picker, singer, songwriter, arranger and producer.
Robb’s album “Confessin’ My Dues” is a 13-track collection of original tunes that draws on influences as varied as country blues, Coltrane, ragtime, Hendrix, Americana and American Primitivism. Released in 2019 to worldwide acclaim, the album earned another Muddy Award for Northwest recording of the year and a Blues Music Award nomination from the Blues Foundation.
Robb’s work has been featured in film and TV productions, including “Game of Thrones,” “The Horse Whisperer,” and “Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist.” He is associated with the American Primitive Guitar genre through his collaborations with Fahey.
For more information, visit www.terryrobb.com.