You’d think that a member of both Grandaddy AND Modest Mouse would have an a easy ride on the gravy train to the top. But nowadays, music promotion is a complex beast and even Jim Fairchild had to toil in the trenches of Google adwords, Facebook ads, and botched PR campaigns in order to get his newer solo project some well-deserved attention. Thankfully, he and his strategically-minded friend Ty White stuck it out and finally, after several big missteps, stumbled upon a winning approach. And even better, Ty documented the whole experience for our friends at MusicThinkTank.com
-Chris R. at CD Baby
Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.