Artist: Robbie Fulks
Genre(s):
Country
Rock
Discography:
Georgia Hard
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Live At Double Door
Year: 2004
Tracks: 31
Let's Kill Saturday Night
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
South Mouth
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Singer/songwriter Robbie Fulks was i of the more heralded talents in the alternative state motion, displaying an offbeat, sometimes dark sense of humour in many of his topper moments. As time passed, Fulks stirred away from the country twang of his former work and into a crunchier roots rock loanblend. Fulks shared out his puerility betwixt Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina, and received his schooling at Columbia University. He moved to Chicago in 1983 and first base served as vocalist and guitar player in bluegrass band the Special Consensus, appearing on their Grammy-nominated 1989 album A Hole in My Heart. He after performed in the musical review Woody Guthrie's American Song and formed his possess rock striation, the Trailer Trash Revue, with whom he cut a topically popular undivided, "Short King" b/w "Dungaree Arthur."
Fulks got his first base substantial exposure via Bloodshot Records' 1994 compilation Guerilla Country, Vol. 1: For a Life of Sin, which included his track "Butt State"; the 1995 follow-up, Guerilla Country, Vol. 2: Hell-Bent, featured Fulks' "She Took a Lot of Pills (And Died)." Both cuts were produced by Steve Albini, world Health Organization also helmed Fulks' Bloodshot debut, Rural area Love Songs, in 1996. The album received highly electropositive reviews and featured financial support from roots bikers the Skeletons, as well as sometime Buck Owens steel guitar player Tom Brumley. The follow-up, South Mouth, took a similarly retro-minded approach shot, drawing from hellenic whitey tonk and Bakersfield country. With a growing cult reputation, Fulks earned a major-label shot with Geffen, just many critics felt that his 1998 label debut, Let's Kill Saturday Night, undermined the organic strengths of his premature work with too slick magazine roots tilt production. A merger 'tween Universal and PolyGram shortly after the release of Let's Kill Saturday Night light-emitting diode to a gutting of the Geffen artist roster, and the album died on the vine as Fulks establish himself without a label.
Fulks opted to start his have label, Boondoggle Records, distributed by his friends at Bloodshot, and launched it with The Very Best of Robbie Fulks, a jokingly titled compendium of demos and unreleased recordings. In 2001, Fulks followed with 13 Hillbilly Giants, in which he covered a bakers' 12 songs of the 1950s and '60s, and later that year he issued his about challenging set to date, Couples in Trouble, a bleak just compelling assemblage of original songs about a variety of flunk relationships that constitute Fulks adding new dimensions to his interest in rock and leftfield pop. In 2005, Fulks gestural to the roots-oriented Yep Roc label and dug back into his land roots with his first gear album for the judge, Georgia Hard. It was followed by the live compendium Revenge in 2007.
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