Robert Ellis Photographs (New West) Rating: At his best, Robert Ellis doesn’t write songs so much as he pens reveries. Sounding older than his years, the twenty-two-year-old Houston native obsesses over old lovers, old habits, old mistakes, and especially old friends on his full-length debut, Photographs. Even that album title implies a kind of reminiscence [...]

We opened our doors to Robert Ellis, a Texas singer-songwriter with country leanings whose New West debut, Photographs, has been lodged in our stereos for months.  Ellis brought along a pedal steel guitar player and a sack full of songs, including “Westbound Train,” which the long-haired troubadour told us was inspired by the pain he [...]