Michael Roberts is a guitarist, improviser, singer-songwriter, and sound researcher living in Vermont. Roberts founded the indie folk band Wooden Dinosaur, leads the Americana honky-tonk party band The Rear Defrosters, and composes ambient guitar and folk albums through his solo work. As a bandleader and sideman he has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Newport Folk Festival, and the Thing in the Spring Festival, and shared bills with Iris Dement, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, the Devil Makes Three, the Suitcase Junket, and Chris Smither, among many others.

NPR “…the kind of simple, stripped-down music that leaves you feeling nostalgic and longing for more.”

Seven Days Vermont “…a Vermont treasure.”

Visible Voice “Roberts is a master of wringing pure emotion from the strings of an electric guitar.”