That's where he grew up, and that's where he learned to love rhythm and blues as he tuned in radio stations across the border in cities like New York and Baltimore. "I was 15 or 16 and I listened to my dad's radio from Montreal, about every night just listening to that," he said. Robb's first song was a complete classic, The Thrill Is Gone, by the legendary B.B. "The way he would sort of talk and bit and then get back to the guitar, and then talk a bit more," he said. This story is part of a web series called Music that Matters with CBC Yukon's Airplay host Dave White.

Source: CBC News October 25, 2020 12:56 UTC