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Robbie Fulks

November 11, 2011, 8 p.m.
Robbie Fulks
Somebody's Daughter

SOLD OUT!
Hoogland Center for the Arts, Club Room
Springfield, Illinois
Sponsored by E & F Distributing

Fulks Official Show Poster

Official Website - MySpace - YouTube

Video of his Georgia Hard performance at Fitzgeralds in Chicago.

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Robbie's blog entry previewing Springfield show.

Robbie Fulks is a WUIS Bedrock 66 Live favorite, known for his disdain of mainstream modern country and the country music industry, as exemplified by his scorching rebuke of Nashville titled "F*** This Town." His live performances feature improvised rearrangements of his original songs, off-the-cuff musical humor, and covers of songs by Michael Jackson among others.

If Robbie didn't make music, he'd probably be a postal service administrator... Draw your own conclusions. Robbie plays by nobody's rules--except the ones he hears in his head.

Widely regarded by those who monitor such things as one of the most gifted songwriters to ever ply the trade, he can sing "Eggs" and "Sing a Sad Song" back to back and mean 'em both. While it is true he started off a honky tonk smartass, it quickly became evident that Robbie was a monster talent and some of the songs he's written for his albums have been rightly elevated to the status of "classic."

It is a damning condemnation of our world's musical taste that he has not been elevated to the ranks of the multi-faceted giants of songwriting like Nick Lowe and Dave Alvin and Harlan Howard. Lost in the deserved accolades for being a fabulously unique, clever, and heartfelt writer is the fact that he's also one of the best guitarists around. The chameleon-like tall guy can whip it out in honky-tonk, country, bluegrass, power pop, or whatever strikes his ample whimsy at the time.

The Very Best of Robbie Fulks

“Fulks is a gifted guitarist, a soulful singer with an expressive honky-tonk tenor, and a natural performer. But what really sets him apart is his songwriting, which is one part artful country, one part artful sendup of country and one part a little of everything else... It's sort of country meets David Lynch.”
- New York Times

“Fulks is a natural and gifted songwriter with a withering wit and an encyclopedic understanding of classic country song forms; he also happens to be one hell of a guitar player.”
‐ Journal of Country Music

"If country music has an Elvis Costello, it's Robbie Fulks, who marries Ivy League cleverness to an appreciation of hillbilly music that actual hillbillies could only envy."

- Entertainment Weekly


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