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Greg Roberson
BornMemphis, Tennessee, U.S.
GenresGarage rock, punk rock, R&B
Occupation(s)drummer, producer, record label owner
Instrumentdrums
Years active1980s — Present
LabelsTrashy Creatures
In the Red Records
Sympathy for the Record Industry
Norton Records
Websitehttp://trashycreatures.com

Greg Robersonis a Memphis, Tennessee-based session drummer, songwriter, producer, independent-record-label owner, and SiriusXm Radio host. [1]

Roberson currently records with Memphis-based psychedelic/garage rock quartet Tiger High and operates his label, Trashy Creatures Records. He also currently leads two studio side projects featuring his Tiger High band mates: The Trashed Romeos and Hot Freak Nation.

Career

Roberson was a founding member of the legendary Memphis garage band Reigning Sound alongside songwriter Greg Cartwright.[2] Roberson also performed and/or recorded with the Compulsive Gamblers, Knaughty Knights, Lover!, Arthur Lee’s Love, Jim Dickinson, Jack Oblivian & the Tennessee Tearjerkers, Ross Johnson & Jeffrey Evans, Her Majesty’s Buzz, Melissa Dunn, Wreckless Eric, Phil Seymour of the Dwight Twilley Band, and others.[3]

Roberson has also recorded with Wreckless Eric, Switchblade Kid, Amy Rigby, Melissa Dunn, Ron Franklin, and with Phil Seymour of the Dwight Twilley Band. Roberson has produced and performed on records by The Klitz, Ross Johnson & Jeffery Evans, and Robert Allen Parker to name a few.

Over the years Roberson has been a songwriter, producer, and session musician for various projects. [4] He currently owns and operates the independent record label Trashy Creatures Records based in Memphis. He has also lead two studio side projects featuring his Tiger High band mates: The Trashed Romeos and Hot Freak Nation.

Early Music Career: 1984 -1986 The Beat Cowboys and Delta Sonics

In 1984 Roberson formed a Rockabilly band with his close friend Jeff Golightly. Golightly had been a member of The Crime, a Memphis, Tn based New Wave/Power Pop band. Golightly also enlisted former Crime bassist Randy Moon, and lead guitarist Bruce Lester from The Shakes. The bands first gig was opening for Billy Idol during the 1984 Rebel Yell tour. They would go on to perform as an opening act for Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Rank an File, and Webb Wilder. Rockabilly legend Paul Burlison of Johnny Burnette's Rock N Roll Trio was a mentor to Roberson and could often be seen on stage with the band at the Antenna club. In 1985 Paul Burlison told Micheal Donahue of the Commercial Appeal, "Besides The Stray Cats there is no better Rockabilly band anywhere than the Beat Cowboys." In 1986, Jeff Golighly left the group and was replaced by Miles Hillard and the group changed their name from Beat Cowboys to Delta Sonics. In the summer of 1986, the Delta Sonics were chosen by Carl Perkins as his backing band for the Hands Across America Celebration Concert. Hands Across America was a benefit event and publicity campaign staged on Sunday, May 25, 1986 in which approximately 6.5 million people held hands in a human chain for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States.

Her Majesty's Buzz and Panic Palace 1991 - 2003

In 1991 Roberson produced a 6 song demo for a local band called Broken Silence. The groups lead singer, Brandon McGovern and Roberson became close friends and by the end of 1991 started co-writing songs together. The two wrote and recorded over 100 songs in Roberson's home in Midtown Memphis, some with help of producer/engineer Jeff Powell and others with the help of the late engineer James Senter. The songs were very midtown Memphis pop in the tradition of Big Star, Chris Bell, The Scruffs, Van Duren, and Tommy Hohen. They referred to the project as Panic Palace, which was what everyone called Roberson's three story house that was a gathering place for musicians and artists.

In 1992 they worked with Jim Dickinson and Don Smith on a 4 songs demo Sounds Unreel Studios. Then, in March of 1993, Roberson took McGovern to Tulsa, Oklahoma to introduce him to his friend Phil Seymour of The Dwight Twilley Band. Seymour introduced them to a group of guys who had backed both Seymour and Dwight Twilley. They ended up in the recording studio that night and cut one of their songs top to bottom with the band in a 12 hour session. Roberson and McGovern had such a good time recording, they returned to Tulsa in July and recorded an entire album. Seymour insisted on singing on the record though he weighed 90 pounds and had to carried up the stairs to the studio. Seymour passed away three weeks later. As a result, Roberson has never released the album. After this, they changed the name of the band to Her Majesty's Buzz. In 1994 they recorded a 3 songs demo with Jeff Powell in studio "A" at Ardent Studios

The two went on to write and record many more songs only releasing three songs as Her Majesty's Buzz on various compilations. Their song "Penelope Baker" can be found on Yellow Pills Volume 3 released in 1995 by Big Deal/Caroline Records. Journalist Jordon Oakes said about the band and the song Penelope Baker, "Memphis has given the world one great pop group after another. Along with Big Star, there were lesser-know artists like Tommy Hohen, the Scruffs, and Van Duren. although Her Majesty's Buzz carry on that Memphis tradition, they're sound is also evocative of the Tulsa sound of Twilley - Seymour and 20/20. If a pretty melody is like a pretty girl, then believe me - you'll fall in love with Penelope Baker."

In 1995, McGovern moved and in 1996 Don Main of The Late Show replaced McGovern as Roberson's writing partner and as the lead singer for Her Majesty's Buzz. By 1998, the group released "Fixed on You" on a Japanese power pop compilation entitled "Somewhere Down The Road" on Lazy Cat Records. in 2003, the band released a full length album entitled "One of Our Astronauts is Missing - Part One: The Cough Syrup Chronicles".

Randy Band" 1991

In 1991 Roberson paid for studio time to produce 6 acoustic demos on Tommy Hull and Randy Chertow of The Randy Band. These demos were pre-production demos for a full length studio album to be recorded in the following weeks at the same studio. Roberson had arranged for Jim Dickinson to produce the album Sessions and play piano and organ, with himself drumming, Jeff Golightly of The Crime and Beat Cowboys playing guitar. All parties, even the studio owner had agreed to donate their services for free to the project as they all believed in the songs and the band. Hull's alcohol problem brought the project an abrupt end after he showed up drunk and belligerent to the only rehearsal the band had scheduled the week prior to the first session. 1999 The Shazam In 1996 and 97 Roberson wrote and albums worth of material with The Shazam's front man Hans Rottenbery. One songs from these session would appear on the bands 1998 album, "Godspeed The Shazam". It would also appear on two different live records by the group in 2004.

Reigning Sound: 1999 - 2004, 2010, 2015, 2016

In November of 1998, Roberson moved back to his hometown of Memphis, Tn after years of living in Los Angeles, to help care for his dying grandfather. Roberson ran into Greg Cartwright in a coffee shop the first week he was back in town and the two swapped numbers. Roberson and Cartwright recorded 3 songs on Roberson's 4 track which would be the first recordings for what would become Reigning Sound. The two Greg's would play together for the first time in 1999 with Melissa Dunn on second guitar. Cartwright, Tim Prudehomme (Fuck & Two Dollar Guitar) and friends booked a show in December of 1999 at Murphy's in Midtown Memphis and asked Roberson to join them. Eventually, Roberson would bring Jeremy Scott to rehearse with himself, Cartwright, and Prudhomme in 2000. Roberson found a rehearsal space to rent for a night which belonged to one of late singer Roy Orbison's crew. That night they played through one of Roy's old PA's. Scott was a guitarist not a bassist, and had to borrow a bass from Prudhomme for the evening. After that first rehearsal Cartwright, Roberson, and Scott began rehearsing together and working up Cartwright's new songs. The first live show the band played took place during this period with Melissa Dunn joining as a second guitarist.

Eventually, studio time was booked to record at Easley McCain Studio. Four days prior to the sessions Cartwright invited Alex Greene to join the band. Reigning Sound’s debut was "Two Sides to Every Man," a three-song 7", released in May 2001. One month later came their first full-length album "Break Up, Break Down" (Sympathy for the Record Industry.) With its country-folk melodies, the first album was to be an early blueprint of where Cartwright’s songwriting was headed. During this period the group did shows with The White Strips.

The "Time Bomb High School" LP (In the Red) was released in August 2002, and is known for its polished sound, pop hooks and delicate balance of classic R&B and rock & roll. Aside from the originals on the album, Cartwright blended in cover songs like “Stormy Weather” and “Brown Paper Sack”, producing them in the same, recognizable sound the band had developed. The Band did tours with The Hives, Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion, and Dead Moon during this period.

In 2003 the band recorded what was intended to be their third record at Easley McCain Studios. Twelve songs were recorded during these sessions with multiple songs having two drastically different versions. Alex Greene departed the week the record was completed. The band continued on as a three piece and in late summer of 2003 Cartwright decided to re-record the album with the three piece version of the group, because that was what fans would be hearing when the band started touring again. In September 2003 in a one day session the three piece Reigning Sound recorded 13 songs. Some songs were new and others were re-recordings of songs from the Easley sessions earlier in the year. The session took place in Cartwright's record store in the Cooper Young district of Memphis. The same space which is now home to Goner Records. These new recordings were engineered Alicja Trout with assistance from Jay Reatard. The tracks from this session had a noticeably louder and noisier sound than the previous recordings.

When Reigning Sound’s third album “Too Much Guitar,” (In the Red) was released in May 2004 the album would be made up of seven songs from the 2003 Easley sessions featuring the four piece version of the band ("You Got Me Hummin'", "When You Touch Me," "Get It," "Drowning," "Uptight Tonight," "Let Yourself Go," and "Medication") and seven songs from the sessions engineered by Trout and Reatard featuring the three piece version of the band. ("We Repel Each Other", "Your Love Is A Fine Thing", "If You Can't Give Me Everything", "Funny Thing", "I'll Cry", "Excedrine Headache #265", and "So Easy") Versions of "I'll Cry" and "Your Love Is A Fine Thing" from the Easley sessions featuring the original four piece version of the band would appear on a 7" on Slovenly Records.

The Tracks; "Find Me Now", "If You Can't Give Me Everything", "Funny Thing", "Medication Blues #1", "Carol", "What Could I Do?" all from the Easley "Too Much Guitar" Sessions would end up on the 2005 release "Home For Orphans" release through Sympathy for the Record Industry. Rounding out "Home For Orphans" would be "Pretty Girls" and "Without You", from the bands very first vinyl 7" release from 2001, "Two Sides To Every Man"; as well as a live recording of the original band performing Donna Wiess's "Don't Send Me No Flowers I Ain't Dead Yet" with Mike Ladd.

Departure from Reigning Soung

Roberson left the band in May 2004 and Scott left the by the end of the same year. Cartwright has continued on with various line ups since 2004. In July of 2010 the original line of Reigning Sound reunited for the filming of The Antenna Club documentary. It would mark the first time since 2003 the original four members had played together.

In 2015 the three piece version of Reigning Sound, featuring Greg Cartwright, Greg Roberson, and Jeremy Scott reunited for a set at The Buccaneer in Memphis, Tn. Scott's band was opening for Cartwright, who was planning to perform a solo set. During the break between sets the three talked and Cartwright suggested the three play his set together. By the time the three took the stage word had spread and the club was packed. Music journalist Bob Mehr was in attendance and proclaimed in a year end column in the Commercial Appeal newspaper that the show was one of the best of that year. In May of 2016 Reigning Sound reunited again this time with the original four members to help raise money for the Maria Montessori School in Memphis, Tn. On September 29th that same year the original line up reunited once again this time to headline Gonerfest 13.

The next day, the headline of the The Memphis Flyer's music column read, "Reigning Sound Rule Gonerfest Thursday Night", the article went on to say "... it was time for a return of some Memphis favorite sons, Reigning Sound. Greg Oblivian Cartwright formed the band in the early 2000s with Alex Greene on keys, Greg Roberson on drums, and Memphis import Jeremy Scott on bass and backup vocals. The original lineup stayed stable for two of the best records created in Memphis since the heyday of Stax, and their live shows are legendary. When the original lineup reunited, with the occasional addition of John Whittemore on pedal steel and guitar, they proved the legends true for those who didn't get the opportunity to see it go down the first time. There wasn't a bad band on the first night of Gonerfest 13, but the Reigning Sound were head and shoulders above the rest. No one else had the width and depth of Cartwright's songwriting, or the telepathic group cohesion that can sound both haphazard and incredibly tight at the same time. These guys are, and have always been, the real deal."

Porch Ghouls: 2002

In 2002 Roberson engineered a 7 song demo for the Porch Ghouls which got the band signed to Columbia Records via an imprint run by Aerosmith's Joe Perry called Roman Records. The demo was co-produced by Roberson and his then Reigning Sound band mate Greg Cartwright. Two of these 7 demos would be released on the Porch Ghouls 2002 Columbia 4 song EP "Raising A Ruckus"

Compulsive Gamblers: 2003

In 2003 Greg Cartwright and Jack Yarber reformed the Compulsive Gamblers with Cartwright's Reigning Sound band mates drummer Greg Roberson, bassist Jeremy Scott, and organist Alex Greene. The band performed two shows, one in their hometown of Memphis, Tn and the other in Chicago. Both shows were recorded with tracks from both shows appearing on the double live LP "Live and Deadly" on Sympathy For The Record Industry.

Lamar Sorrento" 2005

In 2005 Roberson co-wrote 33 songs with James Eddie Campbell, A.K.A Lamar Sorrento during 2004 and 2005. The songs were for an album project for Sorrento that was abandoned. Three of these songs were released in 2005 on the Lamar Sorrento album "Blast". The album featured Sorrento on guitar and vocals, Richard Rosebrough (Big Star & Chris Bell) on drums, John Lightman (Big Star) on bass, and Jeff Golightly on guitar and vocals.

Arthur Lee & Love: 2005-2006

In 2005 Roberson began working with Arthur Lee after Lee's move from Los Angeles back to his hometown of Memphis. Roberson was given the task by Lee of putting together a new version of Love. After rehearsing various combinations of his favorite players Roberson enlisted Jack Yarber, Alicja Trout, Alex Greene, Adam Woodard, Ron Franklin, and original Love guitarist Johnny Echols to be the new version of the band. Lee was suffering from cancer, which Roberson out of respect for his friend, never shared with anyone, even the band members. The band was booked to play the closing night private party for the 2006 Ponderosa Stomp, but Roberson was forced to cancelled the show the week prior after speaking with Lee's doctor. The band, sadly, would never get a chance to play live as Lee's condition worsened. Lee passed away five months later on August 3rd, 2006

Knaughty Knights: 2006

In December of 2005 Roberson joined Rich Crook, formerly of The Reatards and Lost Sounds, and Jack Yarber to record a 3 song EP which was released in 2006 on Jay Reatard's Shattered Records label. Roberson is featured on the Crook penned "Tommy of the River" and the groups cover of The Outsiders classic "I'm Not Tryin' to Hurt You". The EP's picture sleeve feature art by The Grifters bassist Tripp Lampkins.

2006 Lover! After the Knaughty Knights dissolved Rich Crook approached Roberson about a new project called LOVER! The bands 10 song self titled debut record featured Roberson on drums and Crook playing and singing ever other part. The record was released in 2006 by Empty Records.

2006 Ron Franklin In 2006, Roberson joined Jeremy Scott, Adam Woodard, Jim Dickinson, and Ross Johnson on a session to record a single for Ron Franklin. an entire album came out that one day session entitled "City Lights". Roberson plays drums on 11 of the tracks and maracas on one track. The record was recorded at Royal Studio by Boo Mitchell, who won a Grammy award in 2016 for his work with Bruno Mars on "Uptown Funk". The album featured liner notes by Lorette Velvette.

2006 Jack "Oblivian" Yarber The title track of Jack Oblivian's "Flip Side Kid " LP features Roberson on drums. In 2008 Roberson would joined Yarber's live band.

2008 Ross Johnson In 2008 Roberson produced and played drums on Johnson's follow-up record to the Goner Records released "Make It Stop". The album which Roberson produced would eventually be released as "Vanity Sessions" in 2014. The album was recorded live with no overdubs in one 3 1/2 hour session. All songs but 3 from the session were all first takes. The only overdub on the entire album is Roberson and Jim Dickinson signing background vocals on the Alex Chilton penned "Hey, Little Child".

2008 Snake Eyes In the spring of 2008, Roberson put together a live band, comprised of the session players who had been assembled for the Ross Johnson sessions earlier that year. The bands first show was the opening slot for the original Question Mark & The Mysterians. In a conversation with Dickinson, Roberson mentioned the band and the show. Dickinson asked if he could join the group. Dickinson had two conditions. One, he asked if he could name the group, and he made Roberson promise that he would never have to deal with any band business or booking. The band featured Roberson on drums, his former Reigning Sound band mate Jeremy Scott on bass and vocals, Adam Woodard on keyboards and vocals, John Paul Keith on guitar and vocals, and Dickinson on acoustic guitar and vocals. The band, sans Dickinson, was also Jack Oblivian's backing band during this same period and the group played quite a few double bills together throughout 2008.

2008 - 2009 The Klitz In 2008 Randy Chertow of The Randy Band called Roberson to let him know The Klitz were in the studio recording one of Roberson's songs, A Week Ago Tuesday. Roberson was invited to the sessions and after many conversations was convinced to produce a new Klitz record. Roberson produced a sprawling 32 songs. The sessions featured 17 songs written or co written by Gail Clifton and 15 written by Leza Aldridge, one of which she co wrote with Alex Chilton and original Klitz bassist Amy Gassner. Clifton co wrote two of her tracks with the Randy Band's Tommy Hull, and one with Gun Club guitarist Jim Duckworth. 14 songs were released in 2011 on a limited edition album entitled "Glad We're Girls" on Candy Heart Records.

2009 Everyday Parade Roberson's former Beat Cowboys band-mate, Jeff Golightly asked Roberson to write an albums worth of songs with himself and Rick Camp for a new band called Everyday Parade they were putting together with J.B. Horrell of X-Cult and Aquarium Blood, and drummer Lee Sammons. After Roberson, Golightly, and Camp had written more than enough songs for the record Golighly approached Roberson about producing the record. The result was a 12 song self titled debut. The name of the band was taken from the title of an unreleased song by The Shazam co written by Roberson with Hans Rottenberry. The songs lyrics, written by Roberson, are an account of a story told to him by Don Main about one of the many insane conversations Main had with Captain Beefheart while on tour.

2009 - Present The Trashed Romeos After Roberson's band, Snake Eyes, with Jim Dickinson disbanded, both agreed they wanted to continue working together and immediately went to work pulling together a new project. Roberson named the new project, Ten High and The Trashed Romeos. The name was a play on the name of Dickinson's legendary band, Mud Boy and The Neutrons. Dickinson, told Roberson,"That's great! And just like Mudd Boy, Ten High won't show up either." Roberson brought in Jake Vest, Toby Vest, and Adam Hill to round out the group. The group wrote and recorded an album of original material. In May of 2009, just days after finishing the recordings, Dickinson suffered a heart attack. Instead of releasing the album of originals, Roberson shelved that record and shortened the groups name to The Trashed Romeos, took the band back into the studio and recorded an album of songs by classic 60's Memphis garage and psychedelic nuggets as a tribute to to his hometown and to Dickinson. The album, released in late 2012, through Burger Records and Trashy Creatures Records, featured six Dickinson compositions from the mid sixties. The title track, "Where Dreamers Never Go" was a lost Dickinson song from the 60's. One afternoon Roberson, the Vest brother, and Dickinson were visiting and Toby Vest asked Jim yo play that song. Vest handed Dickinson his and Roberson recorded it with two cheap microphones on his Tascam cassette 4 track. Roberson had the original track, which had a couple of spots where Jim paused or stopped, cleaned up and a version was edited together to make it a seamless performance. Then Jake Vest overdubbed a second guitar on the track. When asked about the track, Roberson said, "I just wanted us to play with Jim one more time. Jake did his best Lee Baker picking on that and when he finished overdubbing his part we all had a good cry." Comedian Drew Carey named "Gotta Find A New Love" one of his Top 10 songs of 2013. The Underground Garage, a Sirius Xm channel, were enthusiastic supporters of the band. The Trashed Romeos album "Where Dreamers Never Go" made #6 on Little Steven’s “Top 10 Coolest Albums In The World for 2013”. In addition, The Trashed Romeos "Gotta Find A New Love" made the Top 20 Coolest Songs Of The Year on Underground Garage, and "Hold It Baby" from the same album made it in the Top 50 Coolest Songs Of The Year.

The UK magazine "Bucketfull of Brains" in Issue #80 said, "The Trashed Romeos have recorded a wonderful album of ultra-obscure tunes originally released by Memphis-area bands of the 60's . . . and the guys do them so well you would swear they were band originals ! ... Where Dreamers Never Go is original garage-pop at it's finest, taken into the new millennium by The Trashed Romeos. More bands need to do albums like this !"

WeAreTheLastBeatniks Blog said about the group February 2013, "Nothing is perfect in this world, but The Trashed Romeos´s “Where Dreamers Never Go” . . . came pretty damn close to it. A highly addictive, and strangely accessible album, brimming with good vibes and plenty of weird jaunts. I can’t put it down, and I don’t really want to either. Could this band get any better? This project, has morphed into a time machine, and each monstrous song gives off a totally different vibe. Deeply personal and painfully intricate, they’ve become a psych garage-entity very special to me…."


2010 - Present Tiger High After seeing Roberson perform with the original lineup of Reigning Sound in July 2010, Jake Vest, along with his brother Toby Vest and Greg Faison approached Roberson about forming a new band. Out of this meeting in late July 2010, Tiger High was formed. Roberson had been working with the Vest brothers in the studio for well over a year, so the decisions to turn what Roberson refereed to as the Cleveland Avenue Wrecking Krewe into a band was the next logical move. Tiger High released two records in 2012, "Myth Is This" and "Catacombs After Party" through co-releases between the labels, Burger Records and Trashy Creatures Records. The groups third album, "Inside The Acid Coven", was released in 2014 through another co-release arrangement between Trashy Creatures Records and Volar Records. A three song 7" was released through the same co-release arrangement which featured, "Christine' from "Inside the Acid Coven" and two non-LP tracks. Tiger High made sure that each release was unique, in that, each format would feature extra songs, alternate version, or mixes. "Myth Is This" was released as an 8 song cassette and digital download. A 12 song limited edition CD with stickers and a full color art insert was also released. The bands second album was released as a 16 song cassette and a 12 song Cd and digital download.

2011- Present Hot Freak Nation After the release of the 2003 album by Her Majesty's Buzz, Roberson and Main continued to write and by 2011 had amassed a large large number of songs. Roberson brought his three Tiger High band mates to join he and Main in the band Hot Freak Nation. In 2012 Hot Freak Nation released their debut album "Lifetime to Lifetime" as a co-release through Burger Records and Trashy Creatures Records.

2010 Robert Allen Parker Roberson produced Robert Allen Parker's 8 song debut album which was released in 2011. The album was packaged inside of a beautiful hand drawn comic book by Tom Foster. Roberson plays drums and percussion on all tracks. A reissue of the album was released in 2018 featuring a remixed version of the album with new overdubs on two songs. The package also had new art.

2015 Jake Vest Jake Vest's first solo album, "Summer Knowledge" released in October of 2015 feature Roberson playing Tambourine the entire album.

2016 Wreckless Eric In 2014 Wreckless Eric invited Roberson to record with him at his home studio in New York. Together they recorded six songs, two of which would be released in 2016 on Eric's first solo album in a decade entitled "AmERICa". Roberson is featured on drums and percussion on the track "Up The Fuselage", and the beautifully haunting "Days of My Life" which also features Jane Scarpantoni on cello.

2018 Amy Rigby In 2014, while recording with Wreckless Eric, Roberson played drums on four new Amy Rigby songs. The track "Old Guys" from this session was released by Rigby in February of 2018 on her LP of the same name.

2018 Robert Allen Parker Roberson produced Robert Allen Parker second album, "Black Heart". Roberson is also featured on drums and percussion on all 10 tracks. In February of 2018 the album was released in a heart shaped red box.

Music for Film: Roberson's music has appeared in the films Going All the Way, Wayne County Ramblin', Broad Daylight, and A Fine Step. Discography: insert here ... see other email Movie Career: In 2015 Roberson was featured in the music documentary "Meantime in Memphis - The Sound of a Revolution" a music feature documenting Memphis DIY underground legends from 1978 to 2015. In addition to Reigning Sound the film features Jim Dickinson, Jay Reatard, The Klitz, Panther Burns, Alex Chilton, Alicja Trout, The Grifters, and many more. The soundtrack for the film featured Reigning Sound's "Straight Shooter" and 21 other Memphis classics released in a 1/4 inch tape box with a full color booklet and twenty five 3 1/2 x 5 inch concert poster reproductions. Music Supervisor for Film: Roberson was the Music Supervisor for the Mark Pellington directed film "Going All the Way", which starred Rachel Weisz, Ben Affleck, Jill Clayburgh, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeremy Davies, Amy Locaine, and Rose McGowan. Roberson produced the soundtrack for the movie for Verve Records as well as penning the original jazz number "Tangled and Tempted" with Tim Brickley for the film. Acting: Roberson portrayed a club DJ in the Milos Foreman directed film, "The People vs. Larry Flynt". Roberson's character introduces Althea Flynt, portrayed by Courtney Love, in her the first scene in the film.

Roberson also appeared as an actor in the films "Forty Shades of Blue" which starred Rip Torn, "Teenage Tupelo", "Six Days in the Life of Mims", and "Enid".

Television: In 2006, Roberson appeared on an episode of the UK children's television program "Blue Peter". The program premiered in 1958, and holds the distinction of being the oldest running children's television program in the world. In 1998, VH1 launched a music trivia game show entitled, "My Generation". Forty eight episodes were produced all of which were hosted by Craig Shoemaker. Contestants were randomly paired in teams according the year they graduated high school. The producers invited Roberson, Steve McDonald of Redd Kross, as well as other musicians to participate as contestants.

Radio Career: SiriusXM: Roberson has been a SiriusXm Radio Host on channel 19, Elvis Radio, since the channels inception in July of 2004. Roberson conceived and developed the benchmark feature programs, that still air weekly on the channel, "Elvis Radio Vault", "Elvis Live In Concert", and "Soundtrack Saturday Night." Roberson also did fill-in shows for "Sirius Disorder" prior to that channel being eliminated after Sirius Satellite Radio's acquisition of XM Satellite Radio. Meg Griffin, the former programmer of that channel, currently does a show entitled "Meg Griffin's Disorder" which airs on SiriusXm channel 30 The Loft as well as the SiriusXm On Demand platform. On Thursday March 15, 2018 Roberson (as Robb Walker), along with Meg Griffin, co hosted Lynyrd Skynyrd's exclusive SiriusXM's subscriber only live concert broadcast from Atlanta's Buckhead Theatre on a limited run channel called "Freebird, Lynyrd Skynyrd's Southern Rock Channel". The channel ran from March 2, 2018 through March 31, 2018. as part of the kick off to the bands, Last Of The Street Survivors Farewell Tour. Prior to joining SiriusXm, Roberson did stints as a radio host on WEGR Rock 103, WRXQ 96X, WMC FM 100, WOTO Oldies 95.7, WGKX KIX 106, WLYX GM 89, WLOK, WSAO, WVIM V95, and RKO power house WHBQ AM 56.

Voice of The Memphis International Airport: Since 2013, Roberson has been the voice of the Memphis International Airport. Roberson can be heard throughout the airport introducing a selection of Memphis music classics from the 1950's through 2013.

2018 Ameripoliton Awards:

In 2018 Honky Tonk legend Dale Watson asked Roberson to be the announcer and one the hosts for the 5th annual Ameripoliton Awards with himself and Danielle Colby of the History Channel "American Pickers". Roberson also presented the award for 2018 DJ Of The Year with 2017's DJ Of The Year winner James Riley and also participated in the closing jam playing drums on Chuck Berry's classic Memphis, Tn.

Roller Derby: From 2007 until 2009 Roberson was the live on track play by play announcer for the Memphis Roller Derby league.

Research Consultant: Roberson was the US reaseach consultant for the Jerry Lee Lewis biography "Killer" by Charles White published by Random House UK Roberson was a consultant on the Dwight Twilley Band reissues, "Sincerley" and "Twilley Don't Mind", for Right Stuff/Capital. He also, co wrote the liner notes for the Dwight Twilley Band's "Great Lost Twilley Album" for DCC Records, pulling together detailed session information on all of

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