• Upland Stories

    Album Review
    Robbie Fulks Earns His Keep With Upland Stories
    Rachel Cholst Posted On April 7, 2016


    800 is a nice round number, and so it is with pleasure that for my 800th post, I present Robbie Fulks’ remarkable album, Upland Stories. Fulks has a long and storied career that I’m going to have to investigate. Regardless […]


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    No Laughing Matter
    Don McLeese Posted On March 31, 2016


    Robbie Fulks is a funny guy. Though he emerged a couple of decades ago as the smartest smart-aleck in Americana — his bluegrass and country formalism subverted by his lethal lyrical humor — you could sense that he might have […]


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    Robbie Fulks Draws From Agee and The Upland
    Rob Dickens Posted On March 21, 2016


    Robbie Fulks will release his ninth album Upland Stories on April 1 2016 (Bloodshot Records).  The album is his first since the excellent Gone Away Backward in 2013 (read my review). Fulks has always been a rich and resounding singer and a writer with more than average […]


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    Alt-Country Pioneer Shows the Kids How It Should Be Done
    Rocking Magpie Posted On March 18, 2016


    The ‘Best Of’ Robbie Fulks, purchased at Goldrush Records in Perth, Scotland (£7.99) in 2000 was one of the very first Alt. Country albums I bought. That sadly long gone shop had one rack of obscure albums labelled ‘Not Country’ and […]


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