Not The Girl Next Door
“Robyn is one of Texas’ true treasures, an incredibly soulful and seductive singer-songwriter. She’s country, bluesy, and wise in the ways of the world. Her singing and songwriting are pitch perfect, as she skillfully dissects matters of the heart with the knowledge of someone who has plumbed the depths of life’s disappointments and sorrows, yet still burns fiercely with hope and redemption. Listening to Robyn Ludwick you’ll have the unmistakable feeling that you have heard her before, although she’s like nothing you’ve ever heard.”
Robison Clan ~ 1972 (Aunt Fran holding Baby Robyn, Mimi, Bruce, Charlie, Cousin Kelli)
Dive bars, Music and Robisons ~ The Happy Accidents
Now six critically acclaimed albums into her career, Texas based singer-songwriter has distinguished herself as one of the most ferociously compelling voices not only in her native Lone Star State, but across the wider Americana landscape both home and abroad. in 2020, Texas Music Magazine named Robyn's "Out of These Blues" one of the most influential albums of the last 20 years.
Ludwick has always had the good sense (and good fortune) to collaborate with some of the very best players and producers that the fertile Texas/Americana music scene has to offer…Gurf Morlix (Lucinda Williams), Ian MacLagan (Rolling Stones, Faces), Slaid Cleaves, Gene Elders (George Strait), Ray Wylie Hubbard, Shannon McNally, Kelly Willis, Robison Brothers, David Grissom (Sheryl Crow, John Cougar Mellencamp), Scrappy Jud Newcomb, Warren Hood, Hubby John “Lunchmeat” Ludwick, Ed Jarusinsky, Kevin McKinney to name a few. As a writer, she's utterly fearless, whether she's channeling torrid desire, tongue and cheek songs about hookers, junkies and stalkers or wrestling her way through the beautiful wreckage of her Robison family history.
Her songs have been cut by artists such as Wade Bowen, Holly "Granddaughter of Hank" Williams, Kelly Willis and brothers Charlie and Bruce Robison. As her native Bandera past would have it, she set her sights on a dream of one day owning her favorite dive bar, in which she first stepped foot in at age 16. Through strange fate and Karmic return of spending her entire childhood in dancehalls and beer joints with her parents and grandparents, Robyn made her dream come true as the purveyor and owner of The Devil’s Backbone Tavern, The “Oldest Dive Bar in Texas” located in Fischer, Texas…..