Biography
Nashville-based rock outfit Whirlybird features vocalist Rob Robinson alongside guitarist Tom Bukovac, bassist Spencer Campbell and drummer Shawn Fichter, with Robinson serving as the group’s clear driving force. During childhood, Robinson’s family shifted residences repeatedly between Louisiana and Mississippi, where he first took up piano lessons at age ten under the guidance of his older sister. Several years afterward he acquired his initial guitar together with a four-track recorder and promptly began capturing his own original songs while performing in area venues even though he was still underage. In his early twenties he relocated to Nashville with the goal of gaining practical insight into the music industry, landing an internship at the Beacham Agency that involved scheduling performances for artists including Tim McGraw and Joe Diffie. He soon assembled his own band, Fearless Freap, which produced three albums before its brief run concluded. Immediately thereafter Robinson sought to launch a new project and thereby encountered the musicians who would later comprise Whirlybird. The band’s first album, Black Eye, appeared in 2001; Robinson characterized the record as “witty anti-pop with Southern slide soul, a thinking man's rock with a heavy underground ethic.”
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