Rab Noakes

**Robert Ogilvie Noakes** (13 ga Mayu 1947 - 11 ga Nuwamba 2022) ya kasance mawaƙi-marubucin Scotland. Ya kasance a kan gaba a cikin kiɗa na gargajiya na Scotland sama da shekaru 50 kuma ya rubuta fiye da 19 [ ƙarin bayani da ake buƙata] kundin studio. Ya zagaya kungiyoyin gargajiya kuma sau da yawa ya yi a bikin kiɗa na Glasgow Celtic Connections . 

A cikin 1970. Noakes ya fitar da kundi na farko, Do You See the Lights, cakuda dutsen ƙasa mai sauƙi wanda ya haɗa da waƙoƙin "Too Old to Die", "Together Forever" da "Somebody Counts on Me". A shekara ta 1971, ya kasance memba na kafa ƙungiyar mawaƙa ta Stealers Wheel, tare da Gerry Rafferty da Joe Egan . Ya taka leda a Rafferty's Can I Have My Money Back, musamman "Mary Skeffington". Ya yi rikodin tare da Lindisfarne a cikin 1972, a kan waƙoƙin "Turn a Deaf Ear", "Nicely Out of Tune", "Together Forever" da "Fog on the Tyne". Ya yi tare da Lindisfarne don kide-kide na John Peel kuma a cikin 1995 ya samar da shirin BBC Radio 2, The Story of Lindisfarnes . Ɗaya daga cikin sanannun rikodin sa, "Branch", daga kundin Red Pump Special, ya sami airplay a BBC Radio 1. Lindisfarne da Barbara Dickson sun rufe waƙoƙin Noakes.

## Tarihin rayuwa
An haifi Noakes a St Andrews, Fife, a ranar 13 ga Mayu 1947,  kuma an haife shi a Cutar. 

A cikin 1963, Noakes ya koma London kuma ya yi aiki ga Ma'aikatan Jama'a, inda ya buga kungiyoyin gargajiya da dare. Ya koma Scotland a 1967 kuma ya fara duo tare da Robin McKidd . Sun buga wasan farko a cibiyar Glasgow Folk. A cikin wannan shekarar ya sami zama na wata daya a Denmark. 

Noakes ya fitar da kundi na farko, Do You See The Lights, a cikin 1970,  tare da layi wanda ya haɗa da McKidd a kan guitar na lantarki da kuma dan wasan jazz na Scotland Ronnie Rae . Wannan rikodin ya haɗa da waƙoƙin "Too Old to Die", "Together Forever" da "Somebody Counts on Me".  

Noakes ya kasance memba ne na kafa a cikin 1971 na ƙungiyar mawaƙa ta Stealers Wheel, tare da Gerry Rafferty da Joe Egan . Ya raira waƙoƙin goyon baya kuma ya buga a cikin kundi na farko na Rafferty, Can I Have My Money Back, musamman a kan "Mary Skeffington", waƙar game da mahaifiyar Rafferty. Bayan wadannan zaman, ya zama memba na farko na Stealers Wheel, amma ya bar su kafin a saki kundi na farko na ƙungiyar. 

Noakes ya yi rikodin kuma ya yi tare da Lindisfarne, wanda ya goyi bayan yawon shakatawa na kasa a 1972, kuma ya rubuta waƙoƙinsa "Turn a Deaf Ear" a cikin kundi na farko, Nicely Out of Tune, da "Together Forever" a cikin na biyu, Fog on the Tyne . Barbara Dickson ta rubuta "Turn a Deaf Ear" a cikin kundin ta Do Right Woman, wanda Noakes ya yi.

A watan Mayu na shekara ta 1972, mujallar kiɗa ta Burtaniya *NME* ta ba da rahoton cewa Noakes zai bayyana a Babban bikin Lincoln na Western Express a ranar 26 ga Mayu a wannan shekarar. Sauran ayyukan da za a yi a cikin "Giants of Tomorrow" sun haɗa da Budgie, Skin Alley, Tea & Sympathy, John Martyn, Warhorse da Gnidrolog .  Ɗaya daga cikin sanannun rikodin Noakes, "Branch", an sake shi a matsayin guda a lokacin rani na 1974 daga kundin Red Pump Special, wanda aka rubuta a Nashville, Tennessee, kuma Elliot Mazer ya samar da shi. Yana da iska mai yawa a BBC Radio 1, amma ba tare da yin UK Singles Chart ba.

Terry Melcher ne ya samar da kundin Restless (1978) a Starling Sounds, wanda ke zaune a Tittenhurst Park a Ascot, tsohon gidan John Lennon da Yoko Ono, wanda Ringo Starr ke mallakar sa'an nan. Kundin, *Rab Noakes* (1980) da Under the Rain (1984) sun biyo baya, amma ba sai 1994 ba ne Standing Up ya bayyana. Noakes daga baya ya zagaya tare da Varaflames, wanda ke dauke da Pick Withers, Rod Clements da harmonicist, Fraser Speirs.

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