Live at Philadelphia Folk Festival
Biography
Rob Lincoln is a singer-songwriter from southern New Jersey who in 2014 released his debut solo album, 5 Cents A Song, which among other things is the longest debut recording ever released by an artist in any genre of music. The two disc recording contains 300 original songs plus numerous bonus tracks and spans 30+ years of songwriting. Lincoln's musical style ranges from finger-picking folk and historical ballads to psychedelia and garage rock. His songs are best known for their memorable melodies. His lyrics tend to be from a variety of unusual perspectives. He has written songs from the perspective of cannibals and cockroaches, murderers, numerous historical figures and fictional characters as well as more personal perspectives. His songs can be funny or sad, simple literal narrative or highly impressionistic and abstract. They run the gamut of emotions. He has also written children's songs, love songs, calypso songs and a few instrumentals and often dabbles in surrealism. In the past few years, other performers have begun adding his songs to their repertoire and his political songs have been selected to be added to the international website www.antiwarsongs.org. When playing live, he often performs with his trio, Lessick & Lincoln & Cohen. See tab above.
Rob Lincoln's solo gigs feature original songs and an occasional traditional song or obscure cover on various stringed instruments (acoustic guitar, resonator guitar and 6 string banjo) with lots of audience interaction.
Lincoln is also the founder of two long-running songwriter events that have given fellow songwriters in the Delaware Valley an opportunity to perform their material since 2001: the Philadelphia Area Songwriters Alliance Summer Songfest and the PASA Houseconcert Series.
In addition, Lincoln is an accomplished violinist who has appeared on more than a half dozen recordings by other artists, including Bob Mecklenburger, Heidi Wolfson, the Paisley Pickles, Steve Quelet, Tom Chirip and Tony DeSantis. Previous bands Lincoln performed with include:
Hearthstone (original 1980's jam band- whose live performance videos can be found on YouTube)
Lessick & Lincoln- (folk duo-released CD, Other Lives, 1994)
Men From When- (rock band- released CD, About Time, 2007)
Rob Lincoln's solo gigs feature original songs and an occasional traditional song or obscure cover on various stringed instruments (acoustic guitar, resonator guitar and 6 string banjo) with lots of audience interaction.
Lincoln is also the founder of two long-running songwriter events that have given fellow songwriters in the Delaware Valley an opportunity to perform their material since 2001: the Philadelphia Area Songwriters Alliance Summer Songfest and the PASA Houseconcert Series.
In addition, Lincoln is an accomplished violinist who has appeared on more than a half dozen recordings by other artists, including Bob Mecklenburger, Heidi Wolfson, the Paisley Pickles, Steve Quelet, Tom Chirip and Tony DeSantis. Previous bands Lincoln performed with include:
Hearthstone (original 1980's jam band- whose live performance videos can be found on YouTube)
Lessick & Lincoln- (folk duo-released CD, Other Lives, 1994)
Men From When- (rock band- released CD, About Time, 2007)
Rob is something of a musical chameleon.” - Folking (UK)
"I generally steer clear of commenting on the seemingly endless CDs I receive that are collections of original material that must be so good that the only one performing it is the composer....When I come across that heretic who writes about something other than the sky or his angst I am shocked into attention, and I found such a troublemaker in the wilds of New Jersey. Rob Lincoln’s The Amusing Song Sampler Volume 1 is a series of whacky ideas (Albert Einstein On Route 95 South) cleaved clichés (“Cat Got My Tongue”) and unanswered 60’s TV questions (“Two Darrens” and Chuckles The Clown”). I don’t know if Mr. Lincoln has recorded more of these. That volume I thing says he has. Anyway his website is www.roblincoln.com" Mike Miller - Tune Up (Volume 54)
“4 Stars (out of 5 Stars)-- Unlike many frustrated songwriters out there, New Jersey’s Rob Lincoln is a mover. 40 years since he first married words to a tune, the singer-songwriter packs all his creations on a DVD, together with lyrics and chords to each one in case an artist wants to cover some, yet gives the listener an easy option of not choosing chronological or random order but sticking to a sampler CD instead. These are not the best cuts, he warns – a perspective may change given the collection’s long gestation and duration – still, there’s enough variety in the 23 tracks to become interested in the rest of Lincoln’s oeuvre. The songs’ subject matter spanning such conceptually different aspects of life as personal growth, uncovered in the kids-oriented, Dylan-nasal philosophical fable “Lonely Pumpkin,” and commercial harassment – lambasted in the harmonica-wetted “Telemarketer Blues,” but the melodies render them equally compelling.” DME (Canada)
“4 Stars (out of 5 Stars)--- 5 Cents A Song reveals an artist who is in it for the love of music. While Lincoln has billed the project as the longest debut album ever released, 5 Cents a Song is more than a gimmick and stands on its considerable musical merits.The album includes the lyrics and chords to all 300 songs, alternate and live versions of 42 songs and six videos. To order, go to cdbaby.com. 342 songs, 18 hours of music.” Icon Magazine (USA)
“If the Grammy Awards had a category for Best Musical Bargain, Rob Lincoln and his first solo album would be the odds-on favorite. The Mount Laurel singer/songwriter’s 5 Cents a Song features 300 MP3 songs on a data DVD that can be played on a computer. Selling for $15 at cdbaby.com, the album lives up to its title. “It’s the longest debut album in the history of recorded music by any artist of any genre,” claims Lincoln, 55. He spent eight years on the project. “I wanted to explore the concept of what is an album in the 21st century,” says Lincoln, who recorded much of the album in his home studio. He plays guitar, bass, mandolin, violin, harmonica and percussion on the set. The songs—he wrote all of them between the ages of 15 and 46—range in style from folk, rock, pop and country to novelty and children’s music. “Not everybody will like everything, but people will find something they like,” he says. The songs have gotten airplay on student-run WPRB in Princeton” New Jersey Monthly
“Rob Lincoln will be the first to tell you that what he’s done isn’t a gimmick but it certainly attracted our attention. Consider the title of the album, 5 Cents A Song. It’s meant literally – the album retails at $15.00 in the States so at 5 cents a song that’s 300 songs. That’s a hell of a debut solo album. The main course of this double-disc banquet is in DVD format containing the first 300 songs that Rob wrote beginning when he was fifteen. In addition, there are files of lyrics and chords and, I kid you not, 42 bonus tracks! This disc runs to over eighteen hours and even the most dedicated reviewer isn’t going to get through all that before sitting down to write so Rob has thoughtfully provided a standard CD sampler of twenty-three songs. I started there. Rob is something of a musical chameleon. He’s open about his influences but get past that...” Folking (UK)
“4 Stars (out of 5 Stars)-- Unlike many frustrated songwriters out there, New Jersey’s Rob Lincoln is a mover. 40 years since he first married words to a tune, the singer-songwriter packs all his creations on a DVD, together with lyrics and chords to each one in case an artist wants to cover some, yet gives the listener an easy option of not choosing chronological or random order but sticking to a sampler CD instead. These are not the best cuts, he warns – a perspective may change given the collection’s long gestation and duration – still, there’s enough variety in the 23 tracks to become interested in the rest of Lincoln’s oeuvre. The songs’ subject matter spanning such conceptually different aspects of life as personal growth, uncovered in the kids-oriented, Dylan-nasal philosophical fable “Lonely Pumpkin,” and commercial harassment – lambasted in the harmonica-wetted “Telemarketer Blues,” but the melodies render them equally compelling.” DME (Canada)
“4 Stars (out of 5 Stars)--- 5 Cents A Song reveals an artist who is in it for the love of music. While Lincoln has billed the project as the longest debut album ever released, 5 Cents a Song is more than a gimmick and stands on its considerable musical merits.The album includes the lyrics and chords to all 300 songs, alternate and live versions of 42 songs and six videos. To order, go to cdbaby.com. 342 songs, 18 hours of music.” Icon Magazine (USA)
“If the Grammy Awards had a category for Best Musical Bargain, Rob Lincoln and his first solo album would be the odds-on favorite. The Mount Laurel singer/songwriter’s 5 Cents a Song features 300 MP3 songs on a data DVD that can be played on a computer. Selling for $15 at cdbaby.com, the album lives up to its title. “It’s the longest debut album in the history of recorded music by any artist of any genre,” claims Lincoln, 55. He spent eight years on the project. “I wanted to explore the concept of what is an album in the 21st century,” says Lincoln, who recorded much of the album in his home studio. He plays guitar, bass, mandolin, violin, harmonica and percussion on the set. The songs—he wrote all of them between the ages of 15 and 46—range in style from folk, rock, pop and country to novelty and children’s music. “Not everybody will like everything, but people will find something they like,” he says. The songs have gotten airplay on student-run WPRB in Princeton” New Jersey Monthly
“Rob Lincoln will be the first to tell you that what he’s done isn’t a gimmick but it certainly attracted our attention. Consider the title of the album, 5 Cents A Song. It’s meant literally – the album retails at $15.00 in the States so at 5 cents a song that’s 300 songs. That’s a hell of a debut solo album. The main course of this double-disc banquet is in DVD format containing the first 300 songs that Rob wrote beginning when he was fifteen. In addition, there are files of lyrics and chords and, I kid you not, 42 bonus tracks! This disc runs to over eighteen hours and even the most dedicated reviewer isn’t going to get through all that before sitting down to write so Rob has thoughtfully provided a standard CD sampler of twenty-three songs. I started there. Rob is something of a musical chameleon. He’s open about his influences but get past that...” Folking (UK)
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5 Cents A Song- The Worlds Longest Debut CD
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