Mark Roebuck
Encyclopedia
Mark Roebuck is a composer
and musician living in Charlottesville, Virginia
. Born in Petersburg, Virginia
, Roebuck originally moved to Charlottesville in the late 1970s to attend the University of Virginia
.
From 1980 to 1988, Roebuck was the main songwriter for power pop band, the Deal. While the band was signed by Albert Grossman
, head of Bearsville Records and former manager of Bob Dylan
, a string of bad luck thereafter kept the Deal firmly in obscurity until 2003 when a power pop indie label, Not Lame Records, released an anthology of the Deal’s music.
In 1989, after the Deal broke up, Roebuck invited then-fellow-bartender Dave Matthews
to write and record a folk-acoustic CD. They called the project Tribe Of Heaven
and shopped it around, but with no success. Matthews went on to form the Dave Matthews Band
. Tribe of Heaven was finally put out as an indie release in 2004.
Roebuck also played in two other bands, SubSeven and Burning Core, during the period from the late 1980s through the 1990s.
From 2000 to the present, Roebuck has played with Big Circle, a band that includes a number of other notable Charlottesville musicians (Charlie Pastorfield, Rusty Speidel, Jim Ralston, Tim Anderson, Tony Fischer). Roebuck has also worked as a psychiatric counselor since 1993.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and musician living in Charlottesville, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
. Born in Petersburg, Virginia
Petersburg, Virginia
Petersburg is an independent city in Virginia, United States located on the Appomattox River and south of the state capital city of Richmond. The city's population was 32,420 as of 2010, predominantly of African-American ethnicity...
, Roebuck originally moved to Charlottesville in the late 1970s to attend the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
.
From 1980 to 1988, Roebuck was the main songwriter for power pop band, the Deal. While the band was signed by Albert Grossman
Albert Grossman
Albert Bernard Grossman was an American entrepreneur and manager in the American folk music scene and rock and roll. He was most famous as the manager of Bob Dylan between 1962 and 1970.-Biography:...
, head of Bearsville Records and former manager of Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
, a string of bad luck thereafter kept the Deal firmly in obscurity until 2003 when a power pop indie label, Not Lame Records, released an anthology of the Deal’s music.
In 1989, after the Deal broke up, Roebuck invited then-fellow-bartender Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews
David John "Dave" Matthews is a South African–born American musician and occasional actor, best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band...
to write and record a folk-acoustic CD. They called the project Tribe Of Heaven
Tribe of Heaven
Tribe of Heaven is a collaboration between Mark Roebuck and Dave Matthews, recorded in 1989.Dave Matthews was a fellow bartender to Mark Roebuck, and assisted Roebuck in writing and recording an entire album...
and shopped it around, but with no success. Matthews went on to form the Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band, sometimes shortened to DMB, is a U.S. rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Boyd Tinsley was...
. Tribe of Heaven was finally put out as an indie release in 2004.
Roebuck also played in two other bands, SubSeven and Burning Core, during the period from the late 1980s through the 1990s.
From 2000 to the present, Roebuck has played with Big Circle, a band that includes a number of other notable Charlottesville musicians (Charlie Pastorfield, Rusty Speidel, Jim Ralston, Tim Anderson, Tony Fischer). Roebuck has also worked as a psychiatric counselor since 1993.