The Beggar had its genesis as a collection of “quite rough and raw” demo recordings, released in 2018 on Bandcamp. Robin Adams then saw how the songs evolved in a live setting when played by a band and decided to revisit and re-record the songs with a group of musician friends.
He has had no funding for the record, and so it “was a labour of love from everyone involved who dedicated their precious time and talent to these recordings”.
At the time of the initial recording, Adams had been recovering from a very difficult four-year period of chronic disease, which had left him housebound and isolated. He was “unable to gig, see friends, or to socialise in any meaningful way due to debilitating fatigue”.