MICHAEL ROBERTS

Michael Roberts is a guitarist, songwriter, and sound studies researcher living in Vermont. He leads and writes for the band Wooden Dinosaur, which has released eight albums of original music ranging from old-time inspired folk to horn-drenched country-soul anthems. In 2012, Roberts, along with Wooden Dinosaur bandmates Jeff Murphy and Frank Roberts, founded The Rear Defrosters, a honky-tonk collective with members from Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

Roberts’s first solo album, Mixed Emotions (2019), presented rich narrative-driven folk songs that lead Seven Days Vermont to call Roberts a “Vermont treasure.” His latest release, Sympathizer (2022), was recorded quickly and simply during the pandemic with an all-star cast of musicians from Brattleboro, Vermont’s rich artistic scene. The album pairs the sound of analog synthesizers with stringed instruments to explore how humans experience sense of place in rural spaces.

Sympathizer is out February 18, 2022 on Lost Honey Records.

Contact: woodendinosaurmusic@gmail.com