Robbin Thompson

Robbin Thompson (born Boston, Massachusetts, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter based in Richmond, Virginia. Since 1976 he has recorded several albums which have featured guest appearances by, among others, Melissa Manchester, Steve Cropper, Waddy Wachtel, Bruce Hornsby and Ellen McIlwaine. He was also a member of an early Bruce Springsteen band, Steel Mill, and has co-written songs with Timothy B. Schmit, Phil Vassar and Butch Taylor and Carter Beauford of the Dave Matthews Band. He has twice won the American Song Festival and in 1980 had a minor national hit with "Brite Eyes". He has also written songs which have featured on the soundtracks of Gleaming the Cube and The Fighting Temptations. His song, "Sweet Virginia Breeze", together with "Oh Shenandoah", has also been nominated to replace "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" as the State song of Virginia.