References

=Interviews=

Text
> URL:http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/the-whole-house-is-singing-alasdair-roberts. Accessed: 2012-04-22. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/677fhIqWP)]
 * Murder Mystery, by Alexis Petridis, //The Guardian//, 2004-03-30. URL:http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2004/mar/30/popandrock2. Accessed: 2011-08-12. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/60sbVQuRu)] Archived at https://archive.today/OHNeP
 * Roberts Rules, by Jon Dale, //Dusted//, 2005-??-??. URL:http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/401. Accessed: 2011-08-28. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/61HkYY3sh)] Archived at https://archive.today/7cJP3
 * The Wordsmith, by Simon Cosyns, //The Sun//, 2009-05-01. URL:http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/sftw/article2405418.ece. Accessed: 2011-08-08. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/60nHBeC54)]
 * The Great Unveiling: Everything from Jung and Nietzsche to The Shaggs, by Tyler Wilcox, //Junkmedia.org//, 2009-05-26. URL:http://junkmedia.org/index.php?i=2503. Accessed: 2011-11-13. (Not archived, at request of site owners) Republished 2014-11-18 by Tyler Wilcox at http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/102965335262/the-great-unveiling-an-interview-with-alasdair Archived at https://archive.today/wxla3
 * Alasdair Roberts Chats About his Beautiful New Album Spoils, by Miss Ess, //Amoeblog//, 2009-06-04. URL:http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/06/all-the-news-that-s-fit-to-sing/alasdair-roberts-chats-about-his-beautiful-new-album-spoils.html. Accessed: 2011-08-08. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/60nGogLQ4)] Archived at https://archive.today/7MqvF
 * Alasdair Roberts: I've Always Been Drawn to Heavy, Big Old Ballads, by Tim Adams, //The Observer//, 2010-08-10. URL:http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/08/alasdair-roberts-interview-tim-adams. Accessed: 2011-08-08. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/60nG6lqIW)]
 * Alasdair Roberts Interview by Jordan Anderson, //Foxy Digitalis,// 2011-01. URL:http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=4793. Accessed: 2011-08-08. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/60nFRqZMy)]
 * Inspiration from Beyond the Grave for Folkie Alasdair Roberts, by Andrew Coleman, //Birmingham Mail//, 2011-01-21. URL:http://www.birminghammail.net/what-is-on-in-birmingham/classical-folk-jazz/2011/01/21/music-inspiration-from-beyond-the-grave-for-folkie-alasdair-roberts-97319-28026241/. Accessed: 2011-08-08. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/60nFmFiWS)], Page 2 archived at []
 * Alasdair Roberts Interview by Lightning Fay, 2011-08-15. URL:http://www.lightningfay.com/interviews/alasdair_roberts.html. Accessed: 2011-08-17. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/610ZEz9X9)] Archived at https://archive.is/8VBXk
 * Alasdair Roberts talks Archive Trails Tour, by Frances Morgan. //The Quietus//, 2011-10-19. URL:http://thequietus.com/articles/07205-archive-trails-tour-alasdair-roberts. Accessed: 2011-10-20. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/62ZpgDGG6)]
 * Archive Trails preview with Alasdair Roberts, author not credited. //Rave Child// website, 2011-10-28. URL:http://ravechild.co.uk/2011/10/28/archive-trails-preview-with-alasdair-roberts/. Accessed: 2011-10-29. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/62ns0u2Kl)]
 * Interview: Alasdair Roberts and Nathan Salsburg [about Alan Lomax and the //Whaur the Pig...// compilation], by Guy Kiddey, //The Scotsman//, 2011-11-12. URL:http://www.scotsman.com/news/interview_alasdair_roberts_and_nathan_salsburg_1_1961544. Accessed: 2011-11-13. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/63AhpkZu1)]
 * Alasdair Roberts collaboration strikes right note, Jim Gilchrist, //The Scotsman//, 2012-04-05. URL:http://www.scotsman.com/news/jim-gilchrist-alasdair-roberts-collaboration-strikes-right-note-1-2215983. Accessed: 2012-04-05. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/66ha2CxLf)]
 * Interview Exclusive: Alasdair Roberts & Mairi Morrison – Urstan. Alex Gallacher, //Folk Radio UK//, 2012-04-17. URL:http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2012/04/interview-exclusive-alasdair-roberts-mairi-morrison/. Accessed: 2012-04-22. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/677fPo1QP)]
 * The Whole House is Singing: Alasdair Roberts "...the commonalities between cultures" Robin Murray, //Clash Music//, 2012-04-17.
 * A Question of Firsts. //Spiral Earth//, 2012-12-27. URL:http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/firstsstory.asp?nid=6628. Accessed: 2013-01-01. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6DLrQ5kCp)]
 * Alasdair Roberts Pays Tribute to the Displaced on "The Year of the Burning", by Kory Grow, //MTV Hive//, 2013-01-09. URL:http://www.mtvhive.com/2013/01/09/alasdair-roberts-pays-tribute-to-the-displaced-on-the-year-of-the-burning/. Accessed: 2013-01-13. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6De8XuWlv)]
 * Interview: Alasdair Roberts, by Thomas Blake, //Spindle Magazine//, 2013-01-16. URL:http://spindlemagazine.com/2013/01/interview-alasdair-roberts/. Accessed: 2013-01-20. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6DoxuiMQW)]
 * Anaïs Mitchell on Child Ballads: 'They're so beautiful, so strange and weird. That's the poetry of it'. by Graeme Thomson, //The Guardian//, 2013-02-08. URL:http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/feb/08/anais-mitchell-album-child-ballads. Accessed: 2013-02-10. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6EKflhF10)]
 * Alasdair Roberts & Friends (interview), by Jason Schneider, //exclaim.ca//, 2013-02. URL:http://exclaim.ca/Interviews/WebExclusive/alasdair_roberts_friends. Accessed: 2013-02-24. ([|Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6EgGBr1aa], [])
 * Alasdair Roberts on Foundlings, the Carnivalesque and Becoming more Scottish, Tom Moyser. //For Folk's Sake// blog, 2013-04-29. URL:http://www.forfolkssake.com/interviews/22579/interview-alasdair-roberts-on-foundlings-the-carnivalesque-and-becoming-more-scottish. Accessed: 2013-05-04. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6GN2j6qLR)]
 * Alasdair Roberts on new album Hirta Songs, Alice Knapp. //For Folk's Sake// blog, 2013-10-28. URL:http://www.forfolkssake.com/interviews/25430/interview-alasdair-roberts-on-new-album-hirta-songs-plus-exclusive-stream-of-new-track. Accessed: 2013-11-03. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6Krd3gXOA)]
 * And another Celtic Thing: Alasdair Roberts, master storyteller, Ian Maleney. //Irish Times//, 2013-11-08 URL:http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/and-another-celtic-thing-alasdair-roberts-master-storyteller-1.1587229?mode=print. Accessed: 2013-11-08. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6KzA2ZI7K)]
 * An Interview with Alasdair Roberts -- Hirta Songs, Simon Holland. //Folk Radio UK//, 2013-11-15. URL:http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2013/11/interview-alasdair-roberts-hirta-songs-plus-exclusive-video-session/. Accessed: 2013-11-15. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6L9Ggxhp9)]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Fading Trails 2014 Revisited: Interview with Hiss Golden Messenger and Alasdair Roberts, Jasper Willems, //Bamshakalah!//, 2014-02-20. URL:http://bamshakalah.tumblr.com/post/77268743911/re-version-bamshakalah-present-fading-trails-2014. Accessed: 2014-02-20. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: helvetica,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small; text-decoration: none;">[|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6NX0n5VUq)]
 * Their Library: Alasdair Roberts, Robin Murray, Clash Magazine, 2015-02-06. Accessed 2015-02-08. http://www.clashmusic.com/features/their-library-alasdair-roberts Archived at []
 * Stripped Back and Simple Folk, Duncan Hall, The Brighton Argus, 2015-03-13. Accessed 2015-03-15. http://www.theargus.co.uk/leisure/music/11854312.Stripped_back_and_simple_folk/ Archived at []
 * Chosen One, Mark Carry, Fractured Air, 2015-08-11. Accessed 2015-08-16. http://fracturedair.com/2015/08/11/chosen-one-alasdair-roberts/ Archived at https://archive.is/s6su7
 * Alasdair Roberts, Clinton Krute, BOMB Magazine (No 132), 2015-Summer. Accessed 2015-08-16. http://bombmagazine.org/article/0912616/alasdair-roberts Archived at https://archive.is/pWHZW
 * Nine Questions with Alasdair Roberts, uncredited, The Active Listener blog, 2015-12-16. Accessed 2015-12-27. http://active-listener.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/nine-questions-with-alasdair-roberts.html Archived at https://archive.is/OIcDg
 * Adventures in Old Songs: The irreverent freshness of Alasdair Roberts, James Black, Unacknowledged Legislation blog, 2016-02-01. Accessed 2016-02-07, https://unacknowledgedlegislation.com/2016/02/01/adventures-in-old-songs-the-irreverent-freshness-of-alasdair-roberts/ Archived at https://archive.is/KmuzP
 * Interview: Alasdair Roberts, David Vincent, Brum Notes, 2017-02-24, Accessed 2017-02-26, http://www.brumnotes.com/interview-alasdair-roberts/ Archived at https://archive.is/gaXjJ
 * Alasdair Roberts Interview, uncredited, Midlands What's On, 2017-02-28, Accessed 2017-03-05, http://whatsonlive.co.uk/interviews/alasdair-roberts-interview/15288 Archived at https://archive.is/DEAGy
 * Alasdair Roberts Trio, Sarah Medeiros, Last Day Deaf, 2017-03-03, Accessed 2017-03-05, http://lastdaydeaf.com/alasdair-roberts-trio/ Archived at https://archive.is/ZpZ7u
 * We talk to Alasdair Roberts about his new album 'Pangs' and creativity, Rob Bridge, Folk Radio UK, 2017-03-29, Accessed 2017-04-02, http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2017/03/pangs-interview-alasdair-roberts/ Archived at https://archive.is/xRzuP

Video
= **Audio/Radio** = =Selected Reviews= =By Alasdair Roberts=
 * How I wrote Farewell Sorrow, //The Guardian//, 2009-08-05. URL:http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2010/aug/04/alasdair-roberts-how-i-wrote. Accessed: 2011-08-08. [|(Archived by WebCite®at http://www.webcitation.org/60nHy66DW)]
 * Alasdair, Mairi Morrison, Alex Neilson and engineer Marcus Mackay talk about an album of Gaelic songs they recorded in early 2011. URL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckxTQP_90P0
 * Interview and studio performance on the Ambrosia Rasputin show, broadcast on [|Resonance FM on 2010-01-14]. Not available online.
 * Interview and studio performance (//Fusion of Horizons// and //Exodus//) with Ian McMillan on [|The Verb (BBC Radio 3)], discussing solo work and, with Robin Robertson, //Hirta Songs//.
 * Interview and live performance with Diana Collier on the Library of Aethers show (no relation, but we are friends), broadcast and [|podcast] on [|Ship Full of Bombs on 2013-08-29]. Also features Steven Collins talking about the release of //Hirta Songs//.
 * Interview and studio performance with Alasdair and David McGuinness on the Ambrosia Rasputin show, broadcast on [|Resonance FM on 2013-09-14]. Keen-eared listeners will notice how, when asked about this site, Alasdair's voice shifts from quiet to discreetly inaudible.
 * Interview by Alan Meaney for [|Flirt.FM's Feed Me Weird Things], on 2014-12-10 []
 * Interview and recorded live performance on the Ambrosia Rasputin show, broadcast on [|Resonance FM on 2018-04-15].
 * //Farewell Sorrow//, reviewed by Alexis Petridis, //The Guardian//, 2003-12-12. URL:http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2003/dec/12/popandrock.shopping2. Accessed: 2011-08-12. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/60sbconqM)]
 * //The Amber Gatherers//, reviewed by Phillip Buchan, //Stylus//, 2007-01-09. URL:http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/alasdair-roberts/the-amber-gatherers.htm. Accessed: 2011-11-23. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/63PksfA79)]
 * //Spoils//, reviewed by John Mulvey, //Uncut blog//, 2009-02-24.URL:http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/index.php?blog=6&p=1101&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1. Accessed: 2011-12-01. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/63bUVEIlX)]
 * //Spoils//, reviewed by Erik Davis, //Techgnosis//, 2009-05-14. URL:http://www.techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2009-05-14-1843-0.txt&printable=1. Accessed: 2011-08-12. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/60sZdY3Bt)]
 * //Too Long in this Condition//, reviewed by Rob Young, //Uncut//, undated (2010). URL:http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/alasdair_roberts/reviews/14317. Accessed: 2011-08-12. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/60sZsL8Hx)]
 * A Musical Journey [short career autobiography], //The Celtic Music Fan// blog, 2012-04-18. URL:http://celticmusicfan.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/a-musical-journey-by-alasdair-roberts/. Accessed: 2012-04-26. [|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/67DkSsXq7] , also at https://archive.is/D9x69)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">My Influences, //The Archive Project//, 2012-07-11. URL:http://www.eyg.org.uk/thearchiveproject/?p=320. Accessed: 2012-07-29. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #52829c; font-family: helvetica,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small; text-decoration: none;">[|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/69Wk5KvkB], a lso at https://archive.is/u4j5g)
 * Pan Ra, Music from Atlantis, //The Wire//, 2013-01 issue 347. Not freely available online. Alasdair discusses this obscure album, its back story and a little of his own.
 * Flytes of Fancy,//The Wire//, 2013-06 issue 352. Not freely available online. "Verbal jousting in song has shaped not only musical styles, but society itself."
 * Simply to Live - That Was My Plan: Jason Molina Remembered. //The Skinny//, 2013-12-11. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">URL:http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/features/306412-simply_live_that_was_my_plan_jason_molina_remembered. Accessed: 2013-12-15. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #52829c; font-family: helvetica,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small; text-decoration: none;">[|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6LtS6elAE] also at https://archive.is/cR6yo)
 * Some thoughts on Ivor Cutler in Jude Rogers' piece: He didn't live by the same rules as everybody else, //The Observer//, 2014-03-16<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">. URL:http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/16/ivor-cutler-beautiful-cosmos-scottish-musician-poet. Accessed: 2014-03-16. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #52829c; font-family: helvetica,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small; text-decoration: none;">[|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6O7qsCkQA)]
 * New Approaches to Traditional Music - Braemar residencies. Blog posts about collaboration with Ross Whyte:
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">13 April 2014. URL:http://newapproachesbraemar.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/alasdairs-ruminations-on-a-week-in-braemar-with-ross-whyte/. Accessed: 2014-08-06. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #52829c; font-family: helvetica,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small; text-decoration: none;">[|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6Rcigdful)]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">5 August 2014. URL:http://newapproachesbraemar.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/braemar-2-alasdair/. Accessed: 2014-08-06. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #52829c; font-family: helvetica,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small; text-decoration: none;">[|(Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6RciqVNSH)]