WUOT air date: April 2
UTTV air dates: March 12, 13, 15, 16 (all showings at 8pm except on Thursday at 7pm)
Flip Side air date:
Songs Performed:
Video archive: Watch the entire episode on the embedded player on this page or visit our YouTube channel
Audio podcast: Coming Soon!
About Robinella:
A visual artist as well as a musician, Robinella describes herself and her music on her website, www.robinella.com:
“The more things change the more they stay the same.”
The longer I live the more I see the truth in this statement. And the truth I see is that as the day-to-day passes, while the years roll on, our lives are full of repetition…repetition in choices, repetition in words, repetition of body and mind.
As an artist, and a singer and songwriter, I see this repetition in paint, in color, and in song rolling off my lips. I’m from East Tennessee—this means a lot of things to different people. To me, it means a big family, a mild climate, an accent, a ‘thank you’ and ‘you’re welcome.’ It means part of an old hymn: “Lord, lead me on from day to day. I want to walk the holy way. Though friends forsake me all alone, I ask the Lord to lead me on…”
It means modesty.
It means character.
What can I say about my music but that it is intertwined with my life? The songs I have written, the songs I will write… These words I know because I have either lived them or seen them or felt them over and over, over and over, over and over again. I’ve seen many things. Some people would say I was naive. Maybe naive is a choice. I believe in beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Can you see it?
Want me to try and show you?
I will.
With repetition, with a country song, with a smile, with a jazzy phrase I heard in a movie, with some fancy chords a man showed me how to play. With some truth. With some lies.
