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[FOLK] According to musician Robt Sarazin Blake, “Robt is simply an abbreviation of Robert. It is pronounced the same, but takes two less letters to spell.” This is a rare shortcut for Blake, however, as he doesn’t take many shortcuts in his music at all. Instead, he crafts slowburning, low key art-folk songs that are at once folksy, humorous, and heartfelt. On his latest record, Recitative, released on the artists record label, SameRoom, the style can best be described as jazzy talk-singing—which comes off as both poetic and affecting. Robert Christgau, a pioneer of music criticism and one time music editor at the Village Voice recently described many of the song’s on Blake’s double album as “as instantly indelible as the Springsteen, Weill, Reed, and Van Morrison lifts woven in.” It’ll be a fun and intimate experience when Blake brings his band The Letters to Milkie’s on Elmwood for a show this Friday, May 4 with support from local favorites Pine Fever and Brass Pro and the Waterfront Revivalists.