Robert Crenshaw

The brother of pop cult hero Marshall Crenshaw and a fine singer/songwriter in his own right, Robert Crenshaw was born and raised in suburban Detroit, becoming infatuated with music while still a toddler. Given a set of drums, he patterned his playing after the primal style of the Who's Keith Moon, and with his siblings regularly performed the top rock'n'roll hits of the day; when the Crenshaw family acquired a reel-to-reel tape machine in the early '70s, both Robert and Marshall began writing and recording their own material as well. By the age of 17 Robert was also drumming ...