Seven Days has called Roberts "a Vermont treasure" and he has shared bills with Iris Dement, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and the Devil Makes Three. Hailing from the southernmost Vermont town of Guilford and fronting the alt-country project Wooden Dinosaur as well as his honky-tonk collective Rear Defrosters, Michael will share tunes from his most recent album Sympathizer as well as songs from his two-decades plus catalog. Recorded during the pandemic, the songs on Sympathizer reflect some of those themes, as Michael and his wife swapped work from home duties with remote schooling for their daughters, and thus the album is a family affair of sorts. As Michael says on his Bandcamp page: “My daughter Iris deserves credit for naming this album. After a few weeks of jams, she asked me if I could set up the sympathizers for her again one afternoon.
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