San Francisco, CA — October 19, 2009 — Thousands of festival goers who waited for hours to be bussed over to the sold-out Treasure Island Music Festival got treated to a renegade performance by Oakland's Ricky Lee Robinson.

Robinson - who plays a 3-piece drum kit with his feet, along with guitar, keyboards, and vocals - set up shop next to the bus line and gave the waiting crowd a 3-hour set of original music and covers.

"It's always a bit of a risk doing this sort of thing," says Robinson "...I've gotten used to the idea that the police are going to show up and shut me down a lot of the time. It's much more exciting and real than playing a club though. A lot more people are seeing this and writing about it or taking pictures. I'm selling a hell of a lot more stuff, and meeting way more people."

After recognition in 2006 for a rework of the 1976 Lord Davis Dundas hit, 'Jeans On', Robinson's sophomore 2008 release Secret Love Tricks went on to appear on over forty top 10 and top 30 college charts across the US including the CMJ top 200, and was named one of the top 10 albums of 2008 by San Francisco Bay Area's Bagel Radio.

Robinson has shared the stage with The Pixies, Todd Rundgren, and Stephen Malkmus, and continues to make renegade street appearances in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

So what's next? "I want to show up at Coachella next year. Been thinking about that one, the logistics of that and such. And I'm planning on setting up in the road by NBC studios to see how long I can get away with it before the authorities are summoned. Other than that, just making the next album, living life. The normal stuff."

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