"It’s a great way to promote my music because you’re dealing with the whole world. It’s amazing," Robbie says. "People have bought the CD in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Florida."

The CD isn’t the only thing Robbie has sold from his website — he also landed a great summer job. A company hired him to perform Dinner Theatre at the Rodd Hotel in Charlottetown even though he has never acted before. They rarely hire without seeing an audition and offered him a job based solely on what they saw on his website.

"I think that Breakfast Television being on my website is why I got the job in Charlottetown this summer," Robbie says.

On his website Robbie has several video clips from an appearance he made on ATV’s Breakfast Television.

"That’s when I lived in Halifax. I lived just across the river from where they have the show," he recalls. "Scott Boyd wasn’t there that day so I did three songs and pretty much the whole show. I was like, ‘Wow! They’re letting me do everything.’ I couldn’t believe how much I got away with on that show."

After watching these video clips and others on the website he was offered the dinner theatre job without having to audition.

"You act out a skit and serve people at the same time, and you’re always in character. Then you go onstage and play music while they’re eating," he says. "I guess it’s a blast, everybody who’s done it says so. It’ll be good because a lot of tourists come through PEI and I’m going to try and promote my CD there as well, so hopefully that will work out good."

"Then there’s also a fall show and a winter show, if I get picked up for that," he adds. "But I mean things are happening all the time with this album."

If you buy the CD online you get a free poster and every CD has a special password to unlock a secret part of his website where you find extra goodies.

"You get to see my first music video. And you get to hear some deleted tracks," Robbie says. "And there’s a photo gallery from the studio. It’s something extra to give people who bought the album."

A recent addition to the top-secret section of his website is the video from his CD Release Party on May 24^th at Centre Court, Northumberland Square.

The CD is being played locally on 99.3 The River and at other stations around the Maritimes. It features 12 original tracks and is appropriately called The Ledden Street Sessions.

"I think it’s a good driving album. You know how sometimes you buy a CD and you’re like that’s the song I heard on the radio, don’t like that one, don’t like that one, that’s a good one, don’t like that one, and you’ll listen to only four songs on it," Robbie says. "I didn’t want to put out an album that had songs on it just for the sake of making an album with so many songs on it. I wanted to make it interesting and diverse, something that people would really want to listen to, and so far I seem to be quite successful. Everybody really seems to like it a lot."

He’s only 26-years-old but Robbie has been writing songs, singing and performing for about 15 years.

"I started writing those songs a long time ago," he recalls. "When I first started the album I wasn’t going to write anymore. Then I started it and I was like, I really don’t like those songs anymore. So I did the songs that I felt were the best out of the bunch, and wrote some new ones."

Including two new duets, one with Tammy Gallant and the other with his father.

"She has an amazing voice," he says. "And then to close it all up at the end I wrote one for my Dad and I, and he sings on the album at the end. There’s actually one song that I think is one of the best on the album, or it’s one of my favourites, I should say. Jennie."

Jennie

Jennie works at the all night grocery store
She wakes up everyday wanting more
She ain't poor but she feels empty

And her girlfriend Jill doesn't have a job
Jennie’s mom says Jill ain’t no good
Look in her eyes they are empty

But Jennie has a beautiful voice
One day she will be at the top of the charts
She’ll do everything that needs to be done
To be herself to be number one

Jennie became a rock star,
She moved into a mansion on the hill
Jennie was paid like a rock star
She was paid to be Jennie, what a thrill
But her mama always told here, that she was something special,
Yeah her mama always told her that she could
Yeah her mama always told here, that she was something special,
Yeah her mama always told her that she could

But when I wake up
Will you be by my side?
Will you run to the sun
Where no shadows can hide?

When I wake up,
Will you be in my arms?
Will you tell me you feel like
It’s where you belong?
With me, with me yeah
Like you belong with me, lord with me
Like you belong with me, alright

Today they closed that grocery store
Jennie still writes songs, sings and performs
To sold out crowds, just like she new she always could

"It’s the only song I’ve ever written between a period of a week or two weeks," Robbie says. "I wrote the first part. And then I bought a Tom Petty CD and I was listening to that, because I didn’t want the whole album to sound the same."

"Yesterday’s Passed Away I play just the piano, Forever in My Heart I play just the guitar. Just to kind of break the album up a bit," he adds. "But I don’t think every song is written the same. I think that wouldn’t work."

Robbie doesn’t write songs in a traditional style. This is particularly noticeable with songs like Jennie.

"I try not to write songs that are like verse, verse, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, done," Robbie says. "I’m more like, if you’re familiar with Roy Orbinson, I try to write the kind of songs he would write, that don’t have any structure like a regular song. Something different, structured in its own way just not structured like every other song."

He likes to experiment with different sounds and styles.

"When I’m writing a song I’ll take chords that don’t necessarily go together and I’ll try to make them go together. And it sounds different and cool when it comes out," he says.

When he’s writing songs sometimes he hears the melody in his head first, sometimes the words come first and sometimes they come at the same time.

"Like sometimes I’ll sit down and try to write a song and it won’t work just because I’ve sat down to try and write a song," he says. "But if I have a good lyric in my head usually, it doesn’t take very long. Yesterdays Passed Away didn’t take very long. But with Jennie it took two weeks. Different songs, different ideas, different things happen."

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