A Bar By the Beach

by Robbie Robertson

"Rum Diaries" meets "Eat Pray Love" and has a "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" baby. If it were a documentary, A Bar By the Beach would be The Hangover Emotional Rehab Edition. A fun and yet meaningful play by play of four men who met by chance in paradise and follows their interpersonal growth together. It also documents their alcohol-fueled hijinks in this small Southeast Asian beach town.
What starts as accidental camaraderie turns into a semi-functional support group—equal parts therapy session, international incident, and spiritual scavenger hunt. Follow the adventures of our four ex-patriate heroes as they grapple with the wreckage of the lives they left behind in Sweden, the UK, Australia, and the United States. Heartache, loss of love, loss of self, and the reclamation of it all in a chance meeting at a Bar By the Beach. A blast to read from beginning to end!

102 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 17, 2025

About the author

Robbie Robertson was the guitarist and principal songwriter in The Band. He grew up in Toronto and on the Brantford Six Nations Reserve before heading to Arkansas to join Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks. He has produced many movie soundtracks for Martin Scorsese, including Raging Bull, and others, and continues to record as a solo artist. His most recent record, How to Become Clairvoyant, came out in 2011. His support of NA Native Music has been galvanizing. Robertson is coauthor of the children’s book Legends, Icons & Rebels, and author of the memoir Testimony, and the children's book, Hiawatha and the Peacemaker. He lives in Los Angeles and visits Canada often.