Roby Duke (December 6, 1956 – December 26, 2007) was a

contemporary Christian music Contemporary Christian music, also known as CCM, Christian pop, and occasionally inspirational music is a genre of modern popular music, and an aspect of Christian media, which is lyrically focused on matters related to the Christian faith and s ...

ian and songwriter from

Greenwood, Mississippi Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta region, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, and 130 miles south of the riverp ...

. He was noted for his

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

-inflected vocal style and rhythmic "thumping" acoustic guitar playing.

Discography

*1980 ''Not the Same''The website bsnpubs.com gives 1980 as the release year, and indicates a 1992 reissue of ''Not the Same''
while other sources, includin
''Billboard''
give 1999. The 1999 date may indicate a re-reissue. *1984 ''Come Let Us Reason'' *1986 ''Blue Eyed Soul'' *1989 ''Down to Business'' *1994 ''Bridge Divine'' *2004 ''Ghost'' *2006 ''Relaxed Fits''

References

External links

Spectrasonics Profile via Archive.org. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
Profile
christianmusiciansummit.com. Retrieved August 13, 2015. {{DEFAULTSORT:Duke, Roby American performers of Christian music 1956 births 2007 deaths Performers of contemporary Christian music People from Greenwood, Mississippi Musicians from Mississippi Place of birth missing 20th-century American musicians