Charlie Robison, the Texas singer-songwriter whose rootsy anthems made the nation charts till he was pressured to retire after issues from a medical process left him unable to sing, died Sunday. He was 59.
Robison died at a hospital in San Antonio after struggling cardiac arrest and different issues, in response to a household consultant.
Robison launched his music profession within the late Nineteen Eighties, enjoying in native Austin bands like Two Hoots and a Holler earlier than forming his personal Millionaire Playboys. In 1996, he launched his solo debut, Bandera, named for the Texas Hill Nation city the place his household has had a ranch for generations.
When he was approached by Sony in 1998, Robison signed with its Fortunate Canine imprint, which was dedicated to rawer nation. His 2001 album Step Proper Up produced his solely Prime 40 nation tune, “I Need You Dangerous.”
In 2018, Robison introduced that he had completely misplaced the flexibility to sing following a surgical process on his throat. “Subsequently, with a really heavy coronary heart I’m formally retiring from the stage and studio,” he wrote on Fb.
Robison served as a decide for one yr on USA Community’s Nashville Star, a actuality TV present by which contestants lived collectively whereas competing for a rustic music recording contract.
He’s survived by his spouse, Kristen Robison, and 4 youngsters and stepchildren. Three of his youngsters had been along with his first spouse, Emily Strayer, a founding member of the famous person nation band The Chicks. They divorced in 2008.
Robison’s breakup with Strayer impressed songs on the 2009 album Stunning Day. He recorded it whereas dwelling throughout from the Greyhound bus station in San Antonio, in a loft residence with mismatched furnishings and strewn beer bottles, “the quintessential bachelor pad,” he recalled.
“Individuals come as much as me and say they’re going by one thing proper now, and it’s like that is utterly written about them,” Robison advised The Related Press in 2009. “I wasn’t which means to do this, however it’s been a residual impact of the document.”
Robison’s closing album, the rock-tinged Excessive Life from 2013, included a canopy model of Bob Dylan’s “After I Paint My Masterpiece.”
Memorial companies are pending.
