November 27, 2025 • 5 mins
Interview with Frank Robinson aka Mountain Rio - The Culture News
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon, Welcome on the Culture News.
My name is David Savi Ro and I have the
pleasure to have today on iHeart Radio on the Culture
News our wonderful, wonderful artist. His name is Frank Robinson
and he has been writing and doing great music and
the alias of Mountain Rio.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm sure you heard about the name Mountain Rio.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And today we are going to talk about one of
his new songs called twenty seven Miles. We are so
happy the name of the song is actually twenty seven
miles from Roswell. Twenty seven miles from Roswell. We're so
happy to have him today on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
How are you, Frank, I'm very well, David, thank you
at yourself.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm doing wonderful. Thank you so much for being with us.
So to fork you question I have for you. Can
you tell us where are you from and how did
you start music?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, I'm from the northeast of England, a city called
Newcastle in the UK, and I started music basically get school,
I would say nineteen sixty five. We did creative writing
and creative poetry and I used to write my poetry
with melodies in my mind. At the same time, and
then from nineteen sixty seven onwards, I started writing series music.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And we love your new music and thank you very
much that you are doing so. Who are your your
influences the music beast that you are listening? Who have
you well do the most well.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I've been listening to music from the nineteen fifties onwards
on the radio all the time, and there are so
many artists and I think it's just a case of
being influenced by everything I've heard. I mean, in the
sixties it was the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys
and up until Bruce Springsfield. And today nowadays I'm listening
(01:53):
to Jesse Wells. He's the current tag guy I'm listening to.
But influenced really by everything I've heard over the last
sixty seven years.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Wow, and you are listening to some great music, definitely.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So now first forwarding.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
To your new song which we really love called twenty
seven Miles from Roswell. First, we love the time, very intriguing.
Can you tell us about the story of that song
and what does it.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Mean to you?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, tell Telly how it happened. At the beginning. I've
got a new album called Christmas Hodown, and at the
beginning of October, I'd finished recording the album. But when
I went through the track list and I noticed that
all of the tracks were very upbeat, very uptember So
I decided that I wanted something a little more downbeat,
(02:42):
because not everyone feels that cheerful of Christmas. And a
result of that, I came up the song twenty seven
Miles from Roswell to contrast totally with the rest of
the album, which is more uptemper or more upbeat. And
basically the song is about the dissillusion young man carrying
a guitar and traveling along a road to Roswell when
(03:04):
he has a fantastic, magical, invisible experience when he gets
to the twenty seven mile post from Roswell, and he
asked himself if this experience is a dream or something real?
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And we love for sure this is, you know, a
great title that we'll remember for sure, twenty seven miles
from Roswell by the great Mountain Rio.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So where do they Mountain Rio is from Mountain Rio.
It came to my head about twenty years ago. I
think it was just a spontaneous sort of state something
to reach my country music under and it seemed very
fitting at the time. It was just a spontaneous thing
that came to my head.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And it is a definitely great idea. We love that
you brought this up.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
This is a great, great, great artist, ladies and gentlemen,
Mountain Rio, whose name is Frank Robinson. He has a
new track called twenty seven Miles from Roswell. Before we
start to play the track and say goodbye to each other,
what are your next projects?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
My next project and my next project hopefully will be
something totally different. I've got a progressive rock album. I've
written all the songs along the lines of Pink Floyd.
That's in the pipeline for next year along with love that.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Then we will be there definitely to support you and
to promote your great music.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
My name is David, so I had the pleasure to
have today online Heart with your the Culture News the
wonderful artist Frank Robinson. Lucky David is Frank Robinson from
artists named Montain Rio. The song that we were so
happy to feature is called twenty seven Miles from Roswell
(04:56):
and Don't need to go anywhere else because we are
playing it right now. Thanksgiving, Happy holidays to everyone. Statue
with us, it's a beautiful day.
Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon, Welcome on the Culture News.
My name is David Savi Ro and I have the
pleasure to have today on iHeart Radio on the Culture
News our wonderful, wonderful artist. His name is Frank Robinson
and he has been writing and doing great music and
the alias of Mountain Rio.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm sure you heard about the name Mountain Rio.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And today we are going to talk about one of
his new songs called twenty seven Miles. We are so
happy the name of the song is actually twenty seven
miles from Roswell. Twenty seven miles from Roswell. We're so
happy to have him today on the show.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
How are you, Frank, I'm very well, David, thank you
at yourself.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm doing wonderful. Thank you so much for being with us.
So to fork you question I have for you. Can
you tell us where are you from and how did
you start music?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, I'm from the northeast of England, a city called
Newcastle in the UK, and I started music basically get school,
I would say nineteen sixty five. We did creative writing
and creative poetry and I used to write my poetry
with melodies in my mind. At the same time, and
then from nineteen sixty seven onwards, I started writing series music.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And we love your new music and thank you very
much that you are doing so. Who are your your
influences the music beast that you are listening? Who have
you well do the most well.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I've been listening to music from the nineteen fifties onwards
on the radio all the time, and there are so
many artists and I think it's just a case of
being influenced by everything I've heard. I mean, in the
sixties it was the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys
and up until Bruce Springsfield. And today nowadays I'm listening
(01:53):
to Jesse Wells. He's the current tag guy I'm listening to.
But influenced really by everything I've heard over the last
sixty seven years.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Wow, and you are listening to some great music, definitely.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So now first forwarding.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
To your new song which we really love called twenty
seven Miles from Roswell. First, we love the time, very intriguing.
Can you tell us about the story of that song
and what does it.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Mean to you?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, tell Telly how it happened. At the beginning. I've
got a new album called Christmas Hodown, and at the
beginning of October, I'd finished recording the album. But when
I went through the track list and I noticed that
all of the tracks were very upbeat, very uptember So
I decided that I wanted something a little more downbeat,
(02:42):
because not everyone feels that cheerful of Christmas. And a
result of that, I came up the song twenty seven
Miles from Roswell to contrast totally with the rest of
the album, which is more uptemper or more upbeat. And
basically the song is about the dissillusion young man carrying
a guitar and traveling along a road to Roswell when
(03:04):
he has a fantastic, magical, invisible experience when he gets
to the twenty seven mile post from Roswell, and he
asked himself if this experience is a dream or something real?
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
And we love for sure this is, you know, a
great title that we'll remember for sure, twenty seven miles
from Roswell by the great Mountain Rio.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So where do they Mountain Rio is from Mountain Rio.
It came to my head about twenty years ago. I
think it was just a spontaneous sort of state something
to reach my country music under and it seemed very
fitting at the time. It was just a spontaneous thing
that came to my head.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And it is a definitely great idea. We love that
you brought this up.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
This is a great, great, great artist, ladies and gentlemen,
Mountain Rio, whose name is Frank Robinson. He has a
new track called twenty seven Miles from Roswell. Before we
start to play the track and say goodbye to each other,
what are your next projects?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
My next project and my next project hopefully will be
something totally different. I've got a progressive rock album. I've
written all the songs along the lines of Pink Floyd.
That's in the pipeline for next year along with love that.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Then we will be there definitely to support you and
to promote your great music.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
My name is David, so I had the pleasure to
have today online Heart with your the Culture News the
wonderful artist Frank Robinson. Lucky David is Frank Robinson from
artists named Montain Rio. The song that we were so
happy to feature is called twenty seven Miles from Roswell
(04:56):
and Don't need to go anywhere else because we are
playing it right now. Thanksgiving, Happy holidays to everyone. Statue
with us, it's a beautiful day.
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