WUIS' Bedrock 66 Live!
Robbie Fulks
November 11, 2011, 8 p.m. SOLD OUT! |
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Official Website - MySpace - YouTube Video of his Georgia Hard performance at Fitzgeralds in Chicago. 450,335,<iframe width="450" height="335" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vqoWqN_cJhQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> 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. 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.
“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.” “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.” "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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