Robyn Nice

An anonymous singer/songwriter whose music largely resides in the loner-folk and sound art idioms, none of the releases attributed to him mention the name Robyn Nice. Instead, this is the earliest known identity under which he was creatively active and has consequently become a de facto way to refer to the individual behind the body of work given that every recording he has issued is credited to a unique artist or ensemble. While the confirmed personnel on early group recordings suggests a youth at least partially spent in Hammond, Louisiana, the bulk of the artist's output is believed to derive from time spent living in the greater Chicago area, though it is unknown if he still resides there or how contemporaneous any of his recordings were with their release. As well, given the unconventional distribution of most of these releases (i.e. turning up in thrift shops, anonymously dumped in independent record stores, featuring in specialty collectors' mail-order lists), they tend to trade hands for greater-than-average prices on the rare occasions that they do surface. No official point of contact for the artist exists, but the Rabbit Run Down The Hole Of A Skull blogspot fansite is considered a good source for what little information is known; an unofficial Bandcamp page streams audio of the known releases, many of which are on the Discogs database. As of this writing, it is known that several small-run lathe-cut discs were released in 2017 in addition to those from the same series already featuring on this page. Fans of Robyn Nice are hopeful that, in time, information about these recordings will also become readily available.