Robin Adams – The Beggar

Written by celtic music radio on November 28, 2025

In 2021, Robin Adams received the Celtic Music Radio Album of the Year award for his album “One Day”. He’s had a few albums in the meantime. However, the latest, The Beggar, is this week’s Album of The Week.

Hailing from a rich Scottish musical heritage, singer-songwriter and guitarist Robin Adams, carries the torch passed on by his parents, Chris and Pauline Adams, the driving forces behind 1970s folk rock ensemble String Driven Thing. Since 2009, Adams has released seven full-length albums, ranging from his evocative debut “Down to Reverie” to his 2021 foray into American Country and Blues, “Wrong Road Home”.

Drawing inspiration from the likes of John Martyn, Nick Drake and Bert Jansch, Adams has carved out a distinctive niche in the folk singer songwriter landscape. In the words of folk legend Ralph McTell, “If Robin had been on the circuit I was on back in the day, he would already be an underground guitar singer-songwriter star!”

The songs date back to 2018, however Robin felt they needed reworked from their original acoustic versions. At the time of the initial recording, Adams had been recovering from a very difficult four-year period of chronic disease, which had left him housebound and isolated. He was “unable to gig, see friends, or to socialise in any meaningful way due to debilitating fatigue”.

Add in strings and woodwind from a wealth of talented friends and you have the new album. String and woodwind arrangements were a collaborative effort between Juliette Lemoine, Emma Pantel Bowden, Charlie Grey, Rachel Clemente, Dan Brown and Robin Adams.

We hope you like the album as much as we do and will tune into our Album of the Week programme on Saturday 29th November from 12 noon to hear Robin chat with Ross.