Robin Ellis

My name is Robin Ellis, born in Seattle, WA. I have been playing guitar and writing songs since I was 11 years old. I have been mostly influenced by the music and songs of the sixties, seventies and some eighties and particlularly of course, Dylan, Hendrix, Lennon, Marley and Neil Young to drop a few names. I have recorded 10 albums of my own material, some of which I play all instruments, drums, bass, keys, bamboo flute and acoustic and electric guitars and then I sing lead and backing vocals. A couple of my albums have a host of vary talented musicians, for instance, my second album has Guy Johnson, a great guitarist from Seattle (also my uncle and guitar teacher) playing some great solos, Sacha Petulli with some sweet sax work, Theresa Carel graces the third track "You Can't Keep a Secret" with her backing vocals and my good friend, Jon Gee plays keys. At the end of the second track "The Cat is Out of the Bag", my guitar solo kind of morphs into a Mark Johnson guitar solo and he takes it the rest of the way out. It reminds me of a Steely Dan groove with Larry Carlton, jazzy and tasty. Mark is Guy's older brother and my guitar teacher as well. Another one of my albums, "The Under... more...