Great songwriters can slay us with their humanity, their willingness to say the things we won’t say, to play the sounds that awaken parts of us we never knew existed. Roots music is full of those songwriters, whether it’s Hayes […]
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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 […]
Playing songs from one of our favorite labels Bloodshot Records! Featuring Cory Branan, Barrence Whitfield & The Savages, Lydia Loveless, Robbie Fulks and lots more.
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 […]
Intelligent, witty, and endlessly talented, Robbie Fulks’ smart brand of old-school country has been a favorite with the Americana crowd for decades. Songs like “Cigarette State” and “She Took a Lot of Pills (And Died),” showcase Fulks’ clever, often dark sense […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hiding out in the upper right corner of the states, in Rhode Island, we have “Boudin” Dan Ferguson, whose philosophy and “work” ethic I greatly appreciate. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in radio? What other stations have you […]
Silly, serious and musically sublime — sometimes all at once — Robbie Fulks has explored such a range on his studio recordings that his identity might confuse some listeners. Live is where he puts it all together, showing how the […]
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