Robin Batteau - Banned in Sparta (2025)

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Title: Banned in Sparta
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Nouveau Retro Media
Genre: Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 42:47
Total Size: 261 Mb
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Tracklist:

01. Stolen in Love (feat. Greg Naughton) (2:58)
02. In Her Loving Arms (feat. Carolyn Hester) (3:25)
03. Archilochus Re-Deemed (feat. James Naughton) (4:19)
04. Telesilla's on the Wall (feat. Kate Taylor) (4:36)
05. Sweetly Smiling (feat. Livingston Taylor) (5:26)
06. Terracotta Heart (feat. Robin Lane) (4:24)
07. Thracian Filly (feat. Tom Paxton) (3:27)
08. Theater of Memory (Man of Gold) (feat. Matt Nakoa) (3:24)
09. How Can You Love Me (4:21)
10. The Most Beautiful Thing in the World (feat. Keira Naughton) (3:02)
11. Cross (of Gold) (feat. Eric Andersen) (3:36)

Singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Robin Batteau returned to Harvard during the pandemic to finish his degree after a 50-year absence. While there, he wrote a thesis that led to this unusual and satisfying album, whose lyrics draw on the poetry of ancient Greeks.

“The Greek lyric poets performed live and were the stars of their day,” says the Grammy-winning Batteau. “They were singer/songwriters. They played the lyre [hence “lyric”] and danced around the stage like Tom Paxton and Taylor Swift.”

You might not be familiar with most of those Greek poets, who lived from the seventh to the fourth centuries B.C. However, you will likely recognize the names of some of the artists Batteau enlisted to sing lead on various tracks. Paxton is here, delivering a cheery number called “Thracian Filly.” So are veteran folkies such as Carolyn Hester, Eric Andersen, and James Taylor’s siblings, Kate and Livingston.

Surprisingly, none of these tracks sound a bit anachronistic. In fact, Andersen’s reading of “Cross (of Gold),” a song written more than two thousand years ago, could easily be mistaken for a recently penned original from the singer’s own catalog.




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