{"id":10,"date":"2012-03-14T07:15:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T14:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthubele.com\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2022-11-24T14:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T22:47:36","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/roberthubele.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Short Biography of Robert Burton Hubele,\r\nPoet of The Blues<\/h2>\r\nRobert is the oldest of eight children, raised in the prairies of southern Alberta, Canada. At 14, he laboured at a steel mill and then became a heavy equipment operator. At 21, he wrote his first song.\r\n\r\nRobert\u2019s world view is that love and harmony are all. Writing songs and giving concerts are Robert\u2019s focus in life - making a difference in the world through his songwriting and concerts, causing people to see their lives in a new, more harmonious light. And it is not always the big things in life that are the most important. Robert writes about the little things that make a difference.\r\n\r\nRobert is entirely self-taught. His love for the blues started with listening to popular music on the radio as a teen. What caught his ear was Eric Burden\u2019s \u2018House of the Rising Sun\u2019. He had no idea that it was the blues, but he just had to learn to play that song. His friend Butch Williams, a Redcap and co-worker at the Canadian Pacific Railroad, offered to loan him his electric guitar and amplifier and teach him how to play it.\r\n\r\nRobert became fascinated with the earthy beat and emotional impact of the blues. He began listening to and playing along with B.B. King, Howlin\u2019 Wolf, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and Freddie and Albert King.\r\n\r\nRobert\u2019s introduction to jazz was through Chuck Tracy, a hard-core lounge musician and really funny guy who was his roomate for a while. In listening to him rehearse and perform, Robert got turned onto the music of Tom Waits, Mose Allison and Fats Waller. He also listened to Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Benny Goodman and - especially - Cab Calloway and Louis Jordan.\r\n\r\nThere is also a touch of country in Robert\u2019s music from growing up on the prairies on the fringe of Calgary, where music by Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Marty Robbins was the background of his life.\r\n\r\nRobert\u2019s interest in slide dobro began when he first heard Bonnie Raitt in the early 70s. She had learned to play slide from Mississippi Fred McDowell and Robert just had to learn how to make that \u2018slidey\u2019 sound himself. He figured out how to tune his guitar to slide tuning, and made a lot of racket for a couple of years until eventually he got the hang of it.\r\n\r\nRobert writes when the song comes to him, about one each month. It takes one-half to two hours to write a song. The best ones often come the fastest. Polishing and learning a song takes a couple of weeks.\r\n\r\nRobert and his wife Susan, an artist in ceramics and multi-media painting, make their home in Calgary, Alberta, in a beautiful suburb\u00a0called\u00a0Tuscany on the north-western edge of the city.\r\n

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\u00a0Lucky Man<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe Sleepy Time King<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nHubele Arts Music, 2019\r\n\r\nHubele Arts Music, 2016<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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She Won't Talk To Me<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nHubele Arts Music, 2016<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Highway of Dreams<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nHubele Arts Music, 2012<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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I Get Lonely<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nHubele Arts Music, 2011<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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\u00a0Life is Good<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n\u00a0Hubele Arts Music, 2010<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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\u00a0Three Little Words<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n\u00a0Foff Records, 2004 FRCD 0304<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Halfway To Everywhere<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n\u00a0Foff Records, 1998 FRCD0220<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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\u00a0When The Sky Falls<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0Foff Records, 1995 FRCD0219<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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\u00a0Robert Burton<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n\u00a0Attic \/ A&M, 1988 Cat. 1245<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Bug Bug<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n\u00a0Company 125, 2008<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\u00a0(collaboration on \"Known Mystery\")<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Sweet Talk-Song<\/strong>\u00a0(Winner, Canadian Songwriting Contest)<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n\u00a0Independent cassette, 1984<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Coaldust Grins (A Compilation)<\/strong>\u00a0Song: Jenkin Evans<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nCambria Publishing, 1999<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Living On The Land (A Compilation)<\/strong>\u00a0Songs: Wild Alberta Rose, Deliver Me<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\nAdfarm Agency, 2000<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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\u00a0Made In Alberta (A Compilation)<\/strong>\u00a0Song: Red Wine<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n\u00a0Karo Design Calgary, 2000<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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Robert Burton Hubele - Promotional Photos<\/h3>\r\n

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