Career
He was the permanent keyboardist for from 2000 to 2003 and has been in the band"s line-up at other times. Rob has played music on both keyboard and guitar since the age of 6 and has been a professional musician all his adult life. Foreign over ten years in the "80s and early "90s he was keyboardist for the popular The Cosby Show and its spin-off, A Different World.
Rob spent eleven years touring and recording with The Tricksters, turning out two studio albums and playing live shows across the United States and Canada.
Their second album, A Love Surreal, brought the band to the attention of Grateful Dead bassist Philosophy Lesh, who summoned Rob and Trickster guitarist Jeff Mattson to play a series of shows in San Francisco and then on to tour the country double billing with Bob Dylan. Known by fans as "The Q", the Quintet went on to tour the United States for three years and put out one studio album, There and Back Again.
In 2004, he joined Chris Robinson"s New Earth Mud. In 2005, Barraco toured with Dark Star Orchestra after the death of keyboardist Scott Larned and continues to play with them at the present time, although he also played sporadically with in 2005 and continuously through 2006.
Rob has also collaborated with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter on seven songs recorded on his 2007 solo release, When We All Come Home.
