Three’s a Charm

Record Details

Released:
2019

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Featuring Cobalt Prize Blues Composition Winner “Down on Vaughan Road”

Contemporary Blues Cobalt Composition Award Logo

“Son Roberts continues his mission to honour the Blues by creating original music relevant to this time and place. Son is a true storyteller through his often direct and hard-hitting stories.” MERV OSBORNE, Blues Matters

The Story
Being my third album of original Blues, it’s obvious I live a charmed life. Take these three kids. When I just happened to take their picture in Cabbagetown over forty years ago, I had been here for about three weeks.

These kids gave me everything I’ve ever needed to remember about myself and Toronto. Be confident, playful, and charming … and don’t give much of a damn about what people think of you – particularly those who don’t know you. Toronto knows me. Why else would it have been so generous to me? This is where I got the chance to become a storyteller.

READ: The Journey of a Storyteller 

Storytelling is what music is to me – particularly the story of how the Blues, born of such brutally imposed misery, created a legacy of such enduring beauty. This album, like all my music, honours that legacy by creating modern Blues for the here and now.

We were all charmed into doing it – for lucre, love, lust or larceny. This music brought us together, tore some of us apart – but that’s a whole other story. Many thanks to all y’all who are still of the cloth.

Personnel
Produced by Son Roberts & Brett MacMillan in Toronto, Canada.
Recorded and Mixed by Brett MacMillan at the Meatlocker
Mastered by Noah Mintz.
All songs SOCAN. All Contents ©2019 Gate Productions Inc.
All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction of this recording and/or the artwork herein prohibited by law.
Cover photo by Son Roberts
All Lyrics by Son Roberts

  • Son Roberts – vocals and harmonica
  • Brett MacMillan – producer, engineer and guitars
  • Gary Kendal, Omar Tunnoch, Charles Collymore, Tim Burns & Jerome Tucker – bass
  • Ralph MacDonald – guitar and mandolin
  • Sergio Faluotico, Duncan McBain – drums and percussion
  • Sarah Thawer, Time Browne & Duncan McBain – drums
  • Kate Roberts, Gail Roberts, Dave Sparrow, Dave Senior Jr. & Dave Boire – background vocals –  hollering, crooning and general carrying on.
  • Alan Zimaitis & Jesse Whiteley – keys
  • Scott Bannister, Zach Forbes & Donny Hopper – horns
  • Ed Roth – accordion

Thanks to…
This album is dedicated to my mother, Joan Roberts, who sang to me as a child. I hear her strong voice to this day. And to my love, my always, Nancy McGovern.