Welcome to the website of Frank Robinson: Songwriter, musician, artist and author.
On the 17th November 2025 the New Christmas Album from Mountain Rio, ‘Christmas Hoedown’, was released.This features a combination of brand new songs and old favourites.Covering the styles of Bluegrass, Country, Country Rock, Rockabilly, Americana and pop, this album features some timeless tracks that will surely be played for decades to come.So enjoy these songs as precious Christmas presents and if you are a radio programmer be sure to make sure that your listeners get the opportunity to indulge in them as well.
The new single ‘Twenty Seven Miles From Roswell,’ is beautiful, moving, melodic and mystical as ‘A lone wanderer, carrying a guitar, experiences a surreal, transformative encounter that challenges his disbelief and offers a chance at redemption and inner healing.’
New for Christmas 2025 ‘Twenty Seven Miles From Roswell’ The single from the Mountain Rio Christmas album ‘Christmas Hoedown’
Holiday Hoedown Mountain Rio (Featured on the New 2025 Christmas Hoedown Album)
Rockabilly Christmas Mountain Rio (Featured on the New 2025 Christmas Hoedown Album)
New York At Christmastime (Featured on the New 2025 Christmas Hoedown Album)
Christmas Hoedown (Radio Edit) The opening track on the new ‘Christmas Hoedown’ Album
Newcastle At Christmas (Harmonica Edit) Mountain Rio (Featured on the 2025 ‘Christmas Hoedown’ Album)
Let The Lights Shine Mountain Rio (Featured on the 2025 ‘Christmas Hoedown’ Album)
She Left Home On Christmasday (Featured on the 2025 ‘Christmas Hoedown’ Album)
Christmastime Is Here Once Again (Featured on the 2025 ‘Christmas Hoedown’ Album)
I write songs in many different genres and promote my country songs under the alias of Mountain Rio. All Mountain Rio songs are recorded in Nashville by producer Stacy Hogan and feature the wonderful vocals of Mike Lusk.Mountain Rio videos – https://wp.me/P7vD8Q-1MOther aliases I release my songs under are Athenos, The Amazing Doctor Love, Tinsel, Mixed Bag, The Snowmen and Franchesco De Rosa and most recently Afro Neat Ft J Nana.
All of my country
songs are released on my own Mountain Rio label and are available to dfownload from Spotify and other major download stores.
In December 2019 Rockabilly Christmas featuring Mountain Rio reached number 2 in the digitaldjpool.com record pool pop chart and Christmas Festa featuring Franchesco De Rosa reached number 4 in the dance chart.An impressive achievement as digitaldjpool.com is considered one of the best record pools in the world.
I have had a number of chart entries in The Official European Independent Music Chart, which is based on the amount of air play received by a song.The highest position reached to date was in December 2015 when ‘Babes’, a pop/dance track, featuring The Amazing Doctor Love, reached number two.
In July 2016 ‘Lazing In The Summer Sun’ featuring Athenos reached number 7.
As well as writing songs I am the author of a number of books and these are listed below.All of my books are available from the Amazon Kindle store.
Romance Books: (available from amazon kindle store)
Christmas New York
Wedding Day Romance
Childrens Animal Adventure Books: (available from amazon kindle store)
‘The Adventures Of Bobby The Bedlington Terrier, Bobby And The Kidnapped Plot’. Purchase book here from Amazon
‘The Adventures Of Bobby The Bedlington Terrier, Bobby And The UFO’. Purchase book here from Amazon
‘The Adventures Of Bobby The Bedlington Terrier, Bobby And The Disguised Woman’
Purchase book here from Amazon
‘The Adventures Of Bobby The Bedlington Terrier, Bobby And The Stolen Stallion’
‘The Adventures of Bobby The Bedlington Terrier, Bobby’s Special Christmas’
You can hear some of my music, see a selection of my videos and read about the books I have written, on this web site.
More of my music can be heard at:
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Contact: franchescorobinson@gmail.com