The Robin Davis Duo - Starin' at the Mountain (2025)

Tracklist

01. Weed in the Butter
02. Predator
03. Meat on Your Bones
04. Black Dragon Gap
05. Mushroom Mountain
06. Frank's Joy
07. Starin' at the Mountain
08. Froggy
09. Vortex
10. Aunt Avila

Independent folk artist The Robin Davis Duo released their second studio album, “Starin’ at the Mountain,” in April of 2025. The ten-song collection, self-proclaimed as “original old-time,” debuts new instrumentation. Robin Davis swaps guitar for fiddle and Jimi Davis subs bass for clawhammer banjo in this timeless representation of the duo.

“Robin and Jimi Davis make music that sounds like it’s a hundred years old. It’s not,” Bryant Liggett of The Durango Herald said. “While Robin could likely sit in with anybody’s roots or rock band, he specializes in acoustic music. It’s old-time music, a style rooted in bluegrass that sounds as if it was born in Appalachia a century ago.”

New instruments tapped into a new well of inspiration, creating ten original songs inspired by their life in rural Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Amidst ponderosa pines, Robin and Jimi drew inspiration from everything from mountain lion encounters to mountain meditations.

“It’s brand new. That’s kind of our thing, we call it ‘original old time,’” Robin said. “We like playing original songs, but we also love old-time, so we’re just doing both at the same time.”

“The beauty of their old-time debut in “Starin’ at the Mountain” is its rawness. Many festival acts of the string-band variety come a bit clean with an air of overproduction. This release is down and dirty, a DIY effort delivered with some audio grit,” Liggett said. “Robin’s voice is gruff, Jimi’s light and soft; together, it’s a dynamic pairing that floats over Jimi’s driving banjo and Robin’s ripping fiddle-fills.”

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