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RB Lonetree is a singer/song-writer, recording and performing musician and performance poet. He is a regular on the East coast festival circuit in Australia. He is also an artist, freelance investigative journalist, writer of fiction and non-fiction prose, political essays, film scripts and poetry. RB Lonetree’s music and writing is released through his own publishing house, Medicine Road Publications, and Medicine Road Music.
RB Lonetree lives on a farm with his two children and partner in far North-eastern NSW in the Bundjalung Aboriginal nation. His music and lyrics derive inspiration from his love of, and exposure to, world cultural and musical traditions and are especially informed by his extensive travels in Andean and Amazonian South America where he has lived and worked extensively amongst indigenous tribes-people learning about ethnobotany, ethnomusicology, folk- healing and shamanic traditions. The lyrical content of his songs also derives impetus from Indian mystical traditions and explore such themes as time and timelessness, transcendence, cosmology, mysticism, ontology and the possibilities and limits of human expression. His work is also inspired and informed by the great land Australia, her myriad peoples and cultures, her stunning landscapes, islands and coasts.
During the mid and late 1990’s RB Lonetree lived and worked with shamans in Andean and Amazonian South America, where he was in residence during his doctoral studies in the field of shamanism and folk healing.