Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts wasn’t looking to become a musician. In fact, Roberts had established himself in Aspen, Colorado as a custom hat maker in his shop called the Aspen Hatter. As a successful self-made entrepreneur in the beautiful Rocky Mountains, Roberts was poised to kick up his feet and enjoy the view. Yet despite his accomplishments, his creativity overflowed the brim of his hats and seeped out into the world. People began to notice Roberts’ musical inclinations.

“I was making the hats, and then I got some other people to help make the hats,” Roberts began. “So I would sit in the corner of the shop and fiddle on my guitar. People would say, ‘What are you doing? Are you not doing anything with that?’”

After one too many customers insisted that he had a musical calling, Roberts switched hats and fully embraced songwriting. Today, American Songwriter is debuting one of the charming singles that came from Roberts’ career change. “Hate When You’re Gone” is exclusively premiering below on American Songwriter before its official debut tomorrow.

In addition to its exclusive premiere, American Songwriter sat down with Chris Roberts to talk about the polished and heartfelt sound of “Hate When You’re Gone” along with the single’s creation story.


“I came to the boys and said I’d like to write a piano song,” Roberts said. A seemingly simple request for a band of musicians, but Roberts then backtracked to explain why he felt inspired to write a piano song. Roberts revealed that before he and his band sat down to write this song, the Coronavirus pandemic had just hit and all of their tour dates were subsequently canceled. In the midst of the chaos, Roberts recognized he had to adjust once again. So, the group took a beat, packed it up and hit the road to find inspiration.

Roberts and his crew ended up in Joshua Tree, California at a state-of-the-art recording studio attached to a friend of a friend’s house. It was here, where the weight of the world and the universal tinges of missing loved ones, boiled up to create “Hate When You’re Gone.”


“‘Hate When You’re Gone’ is a song about how people who we love, when they’re not with us anymore, how big of an impact that can have on our lives,” Roberts said. “Really it is about some of the special people I’ve had to leave behind and some who have had to leave me. It’s just that way I guess… sort of a heartfelt one here.”

This song is truly a mesmerizingly rhythmic piano song. The piano chords open up the song’s rich introspection with a sprawling emotional reach that makes you sway in your seat. Roberts emphasized that it’s the raw emotion of a song that makes it great. “We [songwriters] have to go through these emotions, and then have to be willing to say them,” Roberts said. He continued to describe that “what we want as artists” is for listeners to grab onto that emotion that is woven into songs.

Grabbing onto the emotion of “Hate When You’re Gone” is easy to do. Not only does the sound fill up your soul, but Roberts’ lyrics tap into the well-known feelings of dread when that special someone is missing from your life. “Your love is a melody/ that I sing every day/ but I can’t find the words/ when you’re gone – gone away/ I know that well make it/ yeah we’ll find a way/ darling/ So this is the song that I sing/ when you’re gone – gone away…” - American Songwriter

Chris Roberts wasn’t angling for a touring and recording career when he played a series of small shows at Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar during the winter of 2018-19. His music had been mostly a private and personal pursuit, something the Austin native did when he wasn’t making cowboy hats at his Aspen shop.

But among the few who caught him playing his original songs at Hooch was music manager Cory Lashever, who convinced Roberts to make a go as a rock star. Roberts now has a growing national profile in the country and jam scenes, and on Friday will release his second EP of the year.

Titled “Lost and Found,” its lead single, “Chevy Van,” is a cover of the notorious 1975 Sammy Johns song about a one-night stand, transformed here into barroom sing-along.


Growing up in Texas in the 1990s, Roberts listened to everything from the Beastie Boys and Marilyn Manson to Johnny Cash. But the sound that changed his life was what he heard on his first trip to Aspen in 1999, Roberts said. He tagged along with a group of friends who road-tripped from Austin to the mountains to see Widespread Panic play the (short-lived) Aspen Harmony Festival at Buttermilk. He’d mostly been a jock and a baseball player until then.

“They said, ‘Come on, we’re going to Aspen to this festival and to see this band Widespread Panic,’” Roberts recalled recently in an interview at his Aspen shop. “I said, ‘Who? I don’t f-ing know them.’”



Listening to Widespread on the drive here was revelatory, but the concert experience itself was life-altering.

“I’ve never seen so many people having fun,” Roberts said. “And I dug the music, and it was quite the party. That’s the time that I put down my baseball glove and bought a guitar.”

He played one college gig, he recalled, but otherwise just wrote and played songs for himself in the years that followed.

Aspen-based singer-songwriter Chris Roberts released his EP “Lost and Found” on Friday. (Kimberly Hunt/Courtesy Reckoning PR)
Roberts came back to Aspen in 2013, moving here and opening his Aspen Hatter shop on Mill Street. It quickly became a successful venture — successful enough that Roberts could hire employees and eventually open a second location back in Austin. That meant he was spending less time making hats or behind the counter and more time sitting in the corner of the shop, strumming his six-string and quietly singing his songs.

Unsuspecting customers, locals and friends became his first audiences and his first fans, enough of them encouraging him to do something public with the music that, finally, after a few years, he started reluctantly looking toward live performance. That took him to Hooch.

“I don’t need to do it,” Roberts said of sharing his music publicly. “But I guess deep down in my heart, I do need to do it. It’s where I get my feelings out. My songs are true and I’m telling a story just in every song.”

Lashever was semi-retired to Aspen after a successful Los Angeles-based career in music management, having formerly represented the estates of deceased artists like Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. Hearing Roberts at Hooch convinced Lashever to get back in the game.

After watching Roberts play, Lashever introduced himself and said “I’m going to get back in the music business if you want to do this.”

Roberts, happy making hats in the mountains, obviously wasn’t on a career-driven path out in industry hubs Nashville or Los Angeles trying to make it big. He was playing a show to a few people in a basement bar in Aspen. But, he said, he was willing to find an audience and Lashever was inspired to help him do it. As Roberts put it: “I wasn’t ready to be hidden anymore.”

The first of his two 2021 EPs, “Red Feather,” was released in February. It drew immediate national attention, landing Roberts festival gigs, a profile in American Songwriter magazine and in June Relix magazine named him an “On the Verge” artist in a glowing write-up.



But the coronavirus pandemic has slowed momentum for launching the late bloomer, who already has streaks of gray in his scraggly beard.

Roberts was beginning his first national tour in March 2020, playing six warm-up club gigs with a new backing band leading up to a splashy spotlight concert event at SXSW in Austin. When the festival canceled and the world shut down, rather than coming home to Aspen, Roberts and his crew started recording.

“We decided to hightail it to Joshua Tree in the California desert and found a studio,” explained Lashever. “At that point, Chris and the band were able to record together for the first time. It turned lemons into lemonade. We weren’t gonna stop working. … I think it was a total blessing for the band. They found their sound this way.”

That sound, as captured on the new EP, is somewhere on the rootsy spectrum between folky Americana and Red Dirt country, with some gritty vocals and some raw emotions but with hummable melodies and boot-stomping beats. Roberts himself describes the sound as “rock’n’roll hippie country magic”

The first song they recorded was “Get Down,” which came together as the band jammed and Roberts riffed his vocals while looking out at the desert horizon from the booth at Skylab Studios, thinking about his paused career and singing “gotta keep this train a’moving/I can’t slow it down.”

“I was just staring out the window and we’re all like, ‘What are we gonna do?’” he recalled.

But Roberts is now overflowing with music. As he tells it, he can’t record fast enough.

Aspen-based singer-songwriter Chris Roberts released his EP “Lost and Found” on Friday. (Kimberly Hunt/Courtesy Reckoning PR)
“You should hear the new songs,” he said. “I have a whole ‘nother album ready. … The new stuff is even better in my opinion, but I’m always moving on. I write a song just about every day.”

Roberts is impatient and wants to get the music out — “I’m like, ‘Let’s get on with it,’ ‘Let’s do this deal!’” — but Lashever is aiming instead to trickle out the music, grow Roberts’ radio and streaming presence and then aim for the big tour in the new year, maybe try again for the splashy SXSW launch when public health restrictions allow.

For now, Roberts has a Los Angeles club gig on Friday at the Hotel Café in Hollywood, following by an October residency in Austin at the iconic Antone’s blues club.

“There is a plan, but it’s day-to-day,“ Lashever explained. “Every day there’s a new protocol, like Live Nation says this and Texas says that.”

Roberts hasn’t played live much around Aspen, not since the Hooch run and a few one-offs with bands at Belly Up’s pre-pandemic Local Music Showcase. He’s up for playing more around here, but also has been frustrated by the local scene, he said, particularly in not getting his music in rotation at his hometown stations like KSPN and KDNK even as “Chevy Van” and the songs from “Red Feather” started hitting national radio and charting in Texas.

“Radio stations, a lot of them in the country and especially some really big ones, play my song, but you know who doesn’t? The guys in my backyard,” he said.

The pandemic’s stop-and-start effect on the live music industry has placed this late-blooming up-and-comer in a frustrating limbo. He’s gotten just a tantalizing taste of the rock star stage life, of having his music embraced by the masses.

As the live music industry roared briefly back to life this summer, Roberts landed on stage at the Allman Brothers Band’s Peach Music Festival in Pennsylvania, sharing a bill with jam band royalty including Warren Haynes, Umphrey’s McGee and String Cheese Incident. He was in his element playing to a crowd of 15,000 and is eager to get back in front of crowds that big.

“I was having a hell of a time, so I want to get back to it,” he said. “I’m like, ‘Let’s just do that. Can’t we do that again, like, every night?’” - The Aspen Times

Chris Roberts’ career path is an interesting one. The Austin native had worked on ranches and construction sites in Texas while laying carpet and even washing cars further demonstrate a willingness to get his hands dirty. Roberts would eventually find business success with the launch of Aspen Hatter a highly regarded hat-making business (I kid you not) in Colorado. Needless to say, he’s got the life experience down and with his debut EP ‘Red Feather’ he’s also got his music down.

As Chris tells it music wasn’t always on the cards "I never tried to become a musician, I never thought I would play music. I never desired to play music. It's just that music kept falling into me and out of me until I had no choice”. The music might have made him do it, but there’s nothing forced about ‘Red Feather’ a five-track EP that Chris and his excellent band recorded under quarantine conditions at Skylab Studio in Joshua Tree on a pandemic enforced break from playing shows. Chris has dubbed the recordings “Rock n’ Roll – hippie-country” and please believe me when I say the resulting recordings are pretty darn great.

Opening track ‘Get Down’ gets things off to a fine start via swirling organ, a pumping rhythm section and guitarist Eli Wulfmeier’s potent mix of funky licks, twang and crunch. Chris delivers his vocal with just the right mix of edge and drawl while the instrumental breakdown mid-song is especially fine with Adam Arcos’ bass and ringing guitars to the fore. Jake Abernathie’s piano and organ skills usher in the epic soul of ‘Hate When You’re Gone‘ which sounds like it should have been recorded years ago at Muscle Shoals or FAME. Two tracks in and Chris is already preaching to the converted and you’ve got to love those horns. Jason Ganberg’s pounding drums and crunching guitars are the order of the day for the hard-edged, brooding Southern rock of ‘On My Own’ which mutates into psychedelic/reggae strangeness without losing any of its power. ‘On My Own’ is seriously great. ‘Coming Down Ain’t Easy’ is up next and eases things back a little as it builds slowly displaying an ambient power that’s almost Floydian. Chris is in fine vocal form and Eli Wulfmeier finds plenty of room to stretch out (regular RGM readers might recognize Eli aka Leroy From The North from a review on this site). The EP concludes with ‘Remember It’s Me’ built on a bedrock of biting slide guitar this is another fine tune delivered with conviction by Chris and his band.

Short and sweet it might be, but as a calling card for the songwriting skills and rich, smoky voice of Chris Roberts ‘Red Feather’ is an impressive first shot. A top band, excellent production and interesting arrangements is a winning combination that makes me think we’ll be hearing a lot more in the future from Chris Roberts. - Red Guitar Music

As a teen, Chris Roberts was a prominent fixture on the Texas baseball fields, drawing the eyes of more than one pro scout. Then, in August of 1999, he joined a few friends on a road trip to Colorado’s Buttermilk Mountain to see Widespread Panic at the Aspen Harmony Festival. Roberts, reared on Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Bob Marley, experienced a jamband epiphany.

“I thought, ‘Wow! This happens?’ It was rock-and-roll. It was Southern—the crowd was awesome. I’d never seen anything like that in my life,” Roberts recalls. “That was when I basically decided to quit baseball and buy a guitar.”

Roberts picked up the instrument in his early twenties, writing songs while working odd jobs at construction sites, car washes and ranches. Eventually, he relocated from Austin to Aspen, hung out a shingle as a hatmaker—using The Aspen Hatter handle—and continued to develop as a musician. “All of my writing is built on emotions; things I’ve felt,” he says. “I’m telling these stories from different points of view, from different parts of life.”

Early last year, Roberts’ career accelerated. He held auditions in Los Angeles for his touring band and hit the road in the opening months of 2020, starting in the Lone Star State. Then, COVID struck, and the ensemble quickly found themselves playing venues with more people sanitizing seats than sitting in them. Roberts called an audible, kept the band together and pointed the tour bus to Joshua Tree, Calif.’s Skylab Studio.

Holed up in isolation, the group wrote and recorded Roberts’ EP, Red Feather. The five-song set opens with “Get Down,” a chicken[1]fried boogie that chronicles those insulated days. “I was staring out the window, and I thought, ‘I’ve got to say something,’” he remembers. “I saw a jackrabbit bouncing through the desert and I was like, ‘That’s how I feel. I’m going to get on with the get down.’” “Get Down” follows two earlier singles from the extended player; “Remember That It’s Me” even made waves on several Texas charts. While quarantined, Roberts worked daily on new material—adding piano to his skillset— and is eager to return to the stage. “It’s fun, when rock-and-roll is happening, to grab the mic and sing,” Roberts says. “I can’t slow this train down.” - Relix

Back in 1975, country music singer-songwriter Sammy Johns scored a million-selling Top 5 hit — and scandalized quite a few radio listeners — with “Chevy Van,” his county/soft-rock tune about a one-night stand on the road. Since then, other country artists — including Waylon Jennings, Eric Church and Sammy Kershaw — have recorded covers of the song. And now up-and-comer Chris Roberts is taking his own unique approach to “Chevy Van,” the first single from his upcoming EP Lost and Found.


Roberts, an Austin native now based in Aspen, describes his music as straddling the worlds of Americana, raw country and Southern rock — or, as he puts it, “rock ‘n’ roll/hippie/country magic.” And that’s the reason why he wanted to feature “Chevy Van” prominently on Lost and Found, the follow-up to his acclaimed EP Red Feather.
“I always thought it was a cool song and had a country twang when Sammy Kershaw covered it,” Roberts says. “I always dug the hippie vibe and the story. I thought it fit perfectly for my style of hippie country and ‘that’s all right with me.’”

During his salad days in Austin, Roberts admits, launching a musical career was the last thing on his mind. After working on ranches and construction sites throughout Texas, and doing everything from laying carpet to washing cars, he eventually founded Aspen Hatter, a highly successful hatmaking business with celebrity fans.

“I never thought I would play music,” he says. “I never desired to play music. It’s just that music kept falling into me and out of me until I had no choice.

“I’m happy to be able to share more songs with the world,” Roberts says of the Lost and Found EP. “These are from the same Joshua Tree sessions that the Red Feather EP came from, and they’ve been a long time coming. In fact, we’ve been in the studio again since then and have an entire full record in the bag already to go.” - Cowboys & Indians

Ahead of his forthcoming EP release on February 26, singer/songwriter/guitarist Chris Roberts is out with a rousing new single, “Get Down,” and it is coming at a time when a lot of folks could use the message.



“Get Down’ is about finding a way through hard times,” Chris shares. “When you got your back up against the wall, what are you gonna do? I know, no matter what, I’m gonna pull myself up by the bootstraps and get on down with the get down.”

The song was written and recorded during a time when Chris and his band had been forced to cancel shows due to the pandemic. So, they decided to make the best of an unpredictable time, quarantining together in a studio in Joshua Tree in the California desert making, in his words, “rock ‘n’ roll/hippie/country magic.” Straddling the worlds of Americana and raw country/Southern rock, the songs are solidly written and executed, laced with innovative but irresistible hooks and finessed with world-class craftsmanship.

It wasn’t always clear that music was in the cards for the Austin native now based in Aspen, CO. “I never tried to become a musician,” he explains. “I never thought I would play music. I never desired to play music. It’s just that music kept falling into me and out of me until I had no choice.”

From working on ranches and construction sites in Texas, laying carpet, and even washing cars, to eventually launching Aspen Hatter, a highly successful hat making business, Chris has always been an independent and impulsive self-starter. Every bit of music he’s heard, every moment of sadness and joy he’s experience, informs who he is and what he does. - American Blues Scene

Many listeners shy away from artists that seemingly work with a set-out formula connected with any given musical genre. Just by sticking to the formula doesn’t get you very far, particularly in the originality department.

Yet, here’s the thing. There’s nothing wrong with respecting a formula if you have it down pat and if you at least add some of your own musicality and imagination, or at least shuffle the formula elements at least a bit. You can actually get some excellent results that way. Aspen, CO resident Chris Roberts and his band certainly respect the formula of what country rock/Americana music should sound like, and that is quite evident on their most recent EP Lost and Found.

This though would not be enough to make Roberts and band stand out if they didn’t shuffle the elements a bit and add something that isn’t often there.

Still, to do that you do have to know the genre you’re working within inside and out do make even that shuffling work. Both Roberts and the band certainly do. Their musical abilities and Roberts’ excellent vocals are certainly a good starting point, but Roberts here matches the soul/country of Dan Penn (the title track) with some ’70s Southern California sound (“Things Are Changing”), re-interpret the classic country (“Chevy Van”), and spice everything with some mean Garth Hudson-like organs and Jerry Garcia-style guitar licks throughout as a binding agent.

No wonder this is going down so well with The Grateful Dead fans, and it might just as well as with a much wider Americana/country rock audience. - Spill Magazine

There isn’t much good you can say about the COVID-19 pandemic, but art has always come through struggle. COVID-19 has been nothing but a struggle, but it has led to some good art. Take Chris Roberts for example. Like every other touring music artist, his band’s gigs were canceled in March, 2020. The band used the opportunity to head to Joshua Tree for three weeks of recording some “rock n roll/hippie/country magic.” One of the results of that jaunt to the desert is the new EP Red Feather.

You can sense that rock n roll and hippie vibe right off the bat in “Get Down,” you get the feel of The Black Crowes and Blackberry Smoke with the rock n roll guitar and organ. It is a song that goes big on the volume and energy. As a result, it feels like one of those songs that would be perfect for a festival with several thousand attendees.

The second song is “Hate When You’re Gone.” This one has a slower tempo than the lead track, and it has some distinct similarities to “Tuesday’s Gone” in the melody and the vocals.

There is a slight shift in the sound of “On My Own.” The guitar is a little more distorted and psychedelic. In combination with the vocals and the organ, the song is reminiscent of Lionize.

This EP dwells largely in that area between southern rock and jam bands. But more than any label that you want to put on these five songs, perhaps the best thing is just to say that the sound is big. These are songs that would be right at home in an arena or a festival setting where thousands of people groove and sing along. Red Feather was released on February 26 and is available everywhere now. Order your copy here. http://theofficialchrisroberts.com/bio/ - Americana Highways

After being forced to cancel several live dates last year due to the pandemic, singer-songwriter-guitarist CHRIS ROBERTS is more than ready to hit the road and play his first shows in more than a year. The set will include tracks from his newly released debut EP Red Feather (February 2021) and showcase what he calls his “rock ’n’ roll/hippie/country magic.”
“We’ve been hard at work for the last little while, writing new material and in the studio,” CHRIS shares. “I’m really excited to get back on the road and play for people and have a good time.”
CHRIS, an Austin native now living in Aspen, CO, will perform alongside his guitarist Eli Wulfmeier and is co-headlining with JB Strauss. The tour kicks off June 3 in Lexington, KY with stops in Louisville, Indianapolis, Columbia, Myrtle Beach, and Raleigh before making its way to Memphis, St. Louis and wrapping up with a Friday night party in Nashville on June 18 (full itinerary below).
Red Feather–available now on all digital platforms–straddles the worlds of Americana and raw country/Southern rock. The songs are solidly written and executed, laced with innovative but irresistible hooks and finessed with world-class craftsmanship. Fans first got a glimpse of this with the release of the singles and music videos “Get Down,” “Hate When You’re Gone” and CHRIS’s debut single “Remember That It’s Me”, which charted in radio markets throughout Texas.
The music caught the attention of American Songwriter who premiered “Hate When You’re Gone” and noted: “This song is truly a mesmerizingly rhythmic piano song. The piano chords open up the song’s rich introspection with a sprawling emotional reach that makes you sway in your seat…Not only does the sound fill up your soul, but Roberts’ lyrics tap into the well-known feelings of dread when that special someone is missing from your life.”
“Get Down,” currently being added to AAA and Americana radio, first made its debut on Americana Highways who declared: “In an easy country Americana style, Chris Roberts will seize on your emotions and never let go. ‘Get Down’ is a motivational inspiration of the grittiest kind.”
“It’s Southern rock n’ roll with Roberts’ ear pleasing, rich vocal, tasty guitar licks and world class musicianship from him and the band,” Rock & Blues Muse wrote of the EP. “With catchy rhythm and irresistible hooks…If it doesn’t get you moving through challenging times, not much will.”
CHRIS ROBERTS Tour Dates:
Thu 6/3—Lexington, KY—Tin Roof
Fri 6/4—Louisville, KY—Tin Roof
Sat 6/5—Indianapolis, IN—Tin Roof
Thu 6/10—Columbia, SC—Tin Roof
Fri 6/11—Myrtle Beach, SC—Tin Roof
Sat 6/12—Raleigh, NC—Tin Roof
Wed 6/16—Memphis, TN—Tin Roof
Thu 6/17—St. Louis, MO—Tin Roof
Fri 6/18—Nashville, TN—EXIT/IN - Rock 'n' Load Mag

Singer-songwriter-guitarist CHRIS ROBERTS straddles the worlds of Americana, raw country and Southern rock…or as he puts it “rock ‘n’ roll/hippie/country magic.” Following the release of his debut EP Red Feather earlier this year, CHRIS is getting ready to drop a new collection of songs on September 24, the Lost and Found EP.

To mark the occasion, CHRIS and his band are celebrating with a live show at The Hotel Café in Los Angeles on Friday, September 24, the day of release. They’ll be joined by good friends Leroy From The North. The show begins at 9:30pm and tickets and info are available now here.

Last week (8/27), CHRIS released the single “Chevy Van,” his take on the Sammy Johns classic and the first of six new songs to come on Lost and Found. The band recently stopped by Jam In The Van in Los Angeles and performed the track; take it in now on YouTube.





Lost and Found features recordings from the same session as the Red Feather EP (February 2021) which earned critical praise from Relix, American Songwriter, Americana Highways, and Elmore, among others. Previous singles and music videos include “Get Down,” “Hate When You’re Gone” and CHRIS’s debut single “Remember That It’s Me”, which charted in radio markets throughout Texas. - Grateful Web

Musician, hatter, and all-around jack of all trades Chris Roberts released his first EP, Red Feather, this winter from the deserts of Joshua Tree, California. While he’s a jack of all trades he’s also arguably a master of some, as Roberts has spent time working in many fields, with music being the latest and the one that will undoubtedly stick. An amateur for the greater part of adulthood, music seemed to serendipitously come into his life, and a pandemic led him to turn just a hobby into a committed relationship. The result is Red Feather, a five-song EP that’s best described as country hippie rock.

In terms of his music career, Roberts is relatively new to Colorado. However, he’s the founder and owner of Aspen Hatter, a custom hat shop with an impressive client roster. He says being in the mountains has had a huge influence on his life, crediting his move from Texas to Colorado for inspiring him to first start a retail business, and then to take up music. “Everything around me has inspired and let me let go,” Roberts said. “I’m getting more used to calling myself a musician.”

It wasn’t until a retired music producer and manager caught him casually playing one day that Roberts’ musicianship turned professional. During one X-Games weekend, Aspen Hatter was used for a commercial and when the crew went back to Roberts’ house, he brought out the guitar. “One of the producers asked me to keep playing and told me, ‘I guess I’m getting back into the music business,'” said Roberts of his now manager. “Since then, it’s been a rollercoaster.”

Roberts and his Los Angeles-based band were mid-tour when the pandemic hit, and when forced to cancel everything, he asked his manager to find them a house in the area with a recording studio. They wound up in Joshua Tree during the quarantine and recorded Red Feather on the fly. Some songs, like “Remember That It’s Me,” they had already been performing while on tour.



Other songs, like “Get Down,” came together in that Joshua Tree home studio. “We got there and I had a few ideas, I was inspired by what we were doing, what we were going through,” Roberts said of how those songs came to fruition. The theme of “Get Down” is about just getting on.


“I believe you can take a bad situation and turn it into a positive. We had to get on with the get-down. This is what we do in life and the situation we were in was so weird, but we didn’t have any other choice.”

With life slowly reopening, the band is “dipping our toes back in the water.” Roberts is looking forward to June and an East Coast tour that will be strictly acoustic. Come July, he’ll be hitting the road with the full band. “I’m really looking forward to people hearing more songs,” said Roberts of the upcoming summer tour. “They’ve only heard a few songs. That’s nothing when we’ve got 25 more that are ready.” Having not performed all that much yet in Colorado, he’s excited to keep pushing and to have people keep catching on to the music. - 303 Magazine