Robert Crotty

New Release - Goin' Down The Wire

What the critics are already saying: "This album could have been recorded in the 50's, 60's, 70's...it's hard to tell. Crotty and Lavorgna are so locked into each other's playing - it makes this cd an incredible blues find...it's the real deal...a must for any blues collection." - Blues in the Night

Hear Robert Crotty LIVE on WPKN.ORG (89.5 FM) on Sunday, March 28th at 8:30 PM

"He talks the blues, lives the blues.  A gaunt, weathered figure, he even looks the blues.  And he plays the blues, exquisitely arranged tunes on the acoustic guitar, raucous numbers on the electric guitar.  He's kept the blues going in New Haven area bars since the early '70s."  - New Haven Advocate

Robert Crotty on WFMU 91.1

Playlist for Janitor From Mars with R. Lim - October 19, 2003

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Robert Crotty, Grand Band Slam 'Best Blues Band' award winner, NH Advocate

Robert Crotty Blues Band, Toad's, New Haven, CT

Robert Crotty, drumming with 'The Pearly Grates', Enormous Room, Yale University, December 1969

"I also learned a lot about honest singing from Robert Crotty, a blues musician in the New Haven area who never relies on 'techniques' or affectations. Very, very few vocalists can resist the urge to resort to affectations when they want to have an 'impact.'"   -Suzanne Langille

"Guitar, vocals. Electric, acoustic and 12-string guitarist who mainly records in spontaneously improvised setting."  -Ron Wynn

"Robert Crotty taught me how to tune my guitar on the 5th fret when we were knee-high to grasshoppers. We jammed for hours in his basement and in mine. As I settled into my role as the bass player...Robert's guitar career launched him into the stratosphere and he's never looked back. Nobody plays like him-NOBODY!"  -David Bobo Lavorgna

Bobo and Robert, at the World Special Olympics main stage, New Haven, CT

Bobo Lavorgna, Rob Mitchell, Robert Crotty, November 1993, Branford, CT

Robert, Michael, Tim & Ed-Swamp Rat Reunion, 2002

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