Roby Duke
Encyclopedia
Roby Duke was a contemporary Christian music
ian and songwriter from Greenwood, Mississippi
. He was noted for his blues
-inflected vocal style and rhythmic "thumping" acoustic guitar
playing.
Contemporary Christian music
Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...
ian and songwriter from Greenwood, Mississippi
Greenwood, Mississippi
Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi, and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. The population was 15,205 at the 2010 census. It is the...
. He was noted for his blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
-inflected vocal style and rhythmic "thumping" acoustic guitar
Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
playing.
Discography
- 1980 Not the Same
- 1984 Come Let Us Reason
- 1986 Blue Eyed Soul
- 1989 Down to Business
- 1992 Not the Same (reissue)
- 1994 Bridge Divine
- 2004 Ghost
- 2006 Relaxed Fits
External links
- http://www.spectrasonics.net/artists/rduke.php
- http://www.christianmusiciansummit.com/templates/cuscms/details.asp?id=32393&PID=532174