Mark Roebuck
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Mark Roebuck is a composer and musician living in Charlottesville, Virginia. Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Roebuck originally moved to Charlottesville in the late 70’s to attend the University of Virginia.
From 1980 to 1988, Roebuck was the main songwriter for power pop band the Deal (80's). While the band was signed by Albert Grossman, head of Bearsville Records and former manager of Bob Dylan, an amazing string of bad luck thereafter kept the Deal firmly in obscurity until 2003 when a power pop indie label, Not Lame Records, released an anthology of the Deal’s music.
In 1989, after the Deal broke up, Roebuck invited then-fellow-bartender Dave Matthews to write and record a folk-acoustic CD. They called the project Tribe Of Heaven and shopped it around, but with no success. Matthews went on to form the Dave Matthews Band. Tribe of Heaven was finally put out as an indie release in 2004.
Roebuck also played in two other bands, SubSeven and Burning Core, during the period from the late 1980s through the 1990s.
From 2000 to the present, Roebuck has played with Big Circle, a band that includes a number of other notable Charlottesville musicians (Charlie Pasterfield, Rusty Speidel, Jim Ralston, Tim Anderson, Tony Fischer). Roebuck has also worked as a psychiatric counselor since 1993.
