Biography
In 1997, Robert Sarazin Blake dropped out of college and hit the road. The folk music of his father’s house had combined with the DIY ethos of the day and produced his first album, ‘Another Irrelevant Year.’ For three decades, Blake toured across the US, Canada, Ireland, Germany, and beyond performing concerts to small groups of people in small rooms.
In 2017, Blake released his 12th album ‘Recitative,’ which earned an A- from The Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau, who wrote, “Chants that riff on the titles WORK, COUPLES, and SINGLE WOMEN are as instantly indelible as the Springsteen, Weill, Reed, and Van Morrison lifts woven in.”
His 2023 single, 'Don't Use Our Death And Pain' is a cry to end the violence in Gaza.
In Feb of 2025 he released Let The Longing Run Wild & Free which JW Vibe called majestic, insightful, soulful and infectiously tuneful. The opening cut “New York City/Brooklyn Bridge,” could naturally follow in the footsteps of Sinatra’s “New York, New York” and Jay-Z/Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind” as the city’s anthem.
His latest single 'There Are No Kings in America' is a new anthem for Democracy.
Robert Sarazin Blake continues to write and live in the most northwest corner of the most northwest state and perform around the world.
“Chants that riff on the titles WORK, COUPLES, and SINGLE WOMEN are as instantly indelible as the Springsteen, Weill, Reed, and Van Morrison lifts woven in”
— Robert Christgau, Dean of American Rock Critics