When they get round to writing the history of this ukulele revival Craig Robertson‘s name should be up there with Jake and IZ in importance. One thing’s for certain, if it hadn’t been for his involvement in Ukulelia and Ukulele Cosmos there wouldn’t have been a Uke Hunt.
Craig’s just put all his albums up on Bandcamp where you can buy them or listen to the full tracks. With there being seven albums to negociate, I thought I’d select ten of my favourites as a starting point for people who are new to his music. If you think I’ve left something out, feel free to leave your own selections in the comments.
Practical Hypnotism
An instrumental track from his debut album. It’s become a ukulele standard and is my favourite tune to mess around with. You can pick up Dominator’s tab here (PDF link).
That Dress
That Dress
She Likes to Pull the Wings off Flies
Possibly the most prominent of Craig’s themes: femme fatales. Usually to be found in bars.
Houdini’s Perspective
Houdini Never Hung Around in Bars
Another one of his recurring themes: performance magic. This time a series of escapology based puns.
DeChirico Street
The Leopard – My all time favourite Robertson song. Don’t listen to a word he says, this song is definitely about his penis.
Goodbye Paul Tibbets – Craig’s next album will be a collection of protest songs. If they’re all as good as this one, it’ll be a fantastic record.
Read my write-up of DeChirico Street
Under The Mystic
A story song about a real-life femme fatale. Blanche Barrow was the sister-in-law of Clyde Barrow (as in Bonnie and Clyde).
Read an interview I did with Craig when this came out.
Better Liar
You might recognise the Shiny and the Spoon featuring Narcissa from the very first Uke Hunt podcast.
Re; The Leopard. (I HAVE to say this…) It is most definitely not about my penis. If it was, it would have been longer.