My first song written for Open D tuning. 

(Sorry just another bed room recording!)

With/Without You in Open D

I like to think of myself as a writer of mature music these days. God knows I need to do something mature! I write and play music simply for the joy of it and I hope you can find some of what music makes me feel as you listen.

Stephen is an accomplished multi instrumentalist, singer songwriter and writer. He can be seen at many clubs, venues and festivals across his beloved county of Yorkshire, effortlessly blending folk, country and humour with storytelling. 

Hi Folks, I'm Karl Robins, originally from the North of England, Leeds but now live in a place called Spittal near Berwick upon Tweed. Been playing for many years as a solo artist but also in a number of different bands. One was clanjamfrie, with Richard Currie and John Carey, and also Blackwing.

Blackwing was essentially myself and Linda Stephenson, whose influences were mainly rock and blues, we sang  together for around five years. I've recently retired from my 'proper job' so I'm now able to spend a great deal of time on music and songwriting and have been able to start putting down songs I've had hanging around for ages, some of those are on here too. Most of these are with the excellent Gary Hetherington, with our 'long distance' writing and recording project, we go under the name 'Dancing with Ghosts' Hope you enjoy the music folks, always happy to have comments and to listen to new music and musicians!

With/Without You in Open D

Stephen Matthews 8