Charlie Robison was a Texas singer and songwriter whose country music singles included “I Want You Bad.”
- Died: September 10, 2023 (Who else died on September 10?)
- Details of death: Died at a hospital in San Antonio after suffering cardiac arrest at the age of 59.
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Charlie Robison’s legacy
Robison was a rootsy country musician, beginning with his 1996 album “Bandera.” His first successes on country music radio came with his next album, 1998’s “Life of the Party.” It included the modest hits “Barlight,” “My Hometown,” and “Poor Man’s Son.” “I Want You Bad,” a cover of an NRBQ song and the only one of Robison’s singles to make the Top 40 of the country music charts, came in 2001. His live shows often included other covers, particularly of classic rock songs such as AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long” and Elton John’s “Rocket Man.”
In 2003, Robison was a judge on the first season of the reality competition show “Nashville Star.” The season’s finalists included Miranda Lambert.
Robison continued recording and touring until 2018, when he announced that complications from surgery left him unable to sing and he would be retiring.
Robison on covering other artists’ songs
“[Y]ou get so fired up when you hear something that makes you kind of feel like you did in high school the first time you heard Jackson Browne or something like that. And it seems like the older you get and the more you listen to music, the more jaded you become, and those songs become fewer and farther in between. So when you do hear one like that, where it just kind of hits you in the stomach, you’re like, ‘Oh my god, I really want to hear this song, and I really want other people to hear it too.’” —from a 2004 interview for Lone Star Music
Tributes to Charlie Robison
Full obituary: The Hollywood Reporter
