Tony Robertson
Musician · Alabama
Best known for
Mandolin
Guitar
Tony Robertson is a mandolinist and guitarist from Alabama and a long-serving member of Iron Horse, the Muscle Shoals band that built an international following out of acoustic arrangements of rock and metal songs.
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- He began in a family group, the Dixie Bluegrass Boys.
- He played in the Jake Landers Band through the 1990s and into the early 2000s, working with one of north Alabama’s most respected songwriters.
- He has been a member of Iron Horse since the early 2000s, playing mandolin and guitar and singing.
- Iron Horse’s tribute records — Metallica, Black Sabbath, Modest Mouse and others rebuilt for acoustic instruments — reach an audience most bluegrass bands never touch, and the arrangements are played straight rather than as novelty.
- In this catalog he appears on ten Iron Horse recordings spanning more than two decades.
