DCSC: Phillip Roebuck

Philip Roebuck is a singer/songwriter from Virginia, who plays resonator guitar and drums at the same time, and he is accompanied by Julian Crouch on washboard and wooden spoons. The vivacious repertoire covers a wide spectrum of roots & folk music — blues, gospel, old time & bluegrass, sea chanties, and of course some tearjerkers. Dancing shoes encouraged!

PHILLIP ROEBUCK

A fusion of high energy heartrending vocals with boot splitting multi-instrumental virtuosity.  Roebuck shepherds audiences through his Appalachian heritage with a trance-like vitality of an old time medicine show. With punk rock intensity, Roebuck stomps out beats on a classic, depression-era drum apparatus, while strumming the banjo with a fierce ragged-but-right style. Some might call it Roots music for the new millennium. Songs over a century old as well as originals come alive in his hands , at times with a haunting sweetness and at times with a demonic desperation. His music can be defined simply as a practice of “transporting.”