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Georgia Hard (Digipak) (CD)

By: Robbie Fulks (Artist)

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Robbie Fulks Artist Snapshot:

Ostensibly an alt-country singer-songwriter, Chicago-based Robbie Fulks stands out in his field by being willing and able to leap out of the confines of his genre on a regular basis. With laugh-out-loud lyrics and a vivid imagination, he has also been known to experiment with rock, cabaret, old-timey folk, jazz, and even string-laden pop. With the exception of his 1998 release on Geffen Records, Fulks has proudly stayed "indie" and has still managed to garner a loyal following of fans.

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DISC 1 for Georgia Hard (Digipak) (CD) Album By Robbie Fulks (Artist)
1   Where There's A Road
2   It's Always Raining Somewhere
3   Leave It To A Loser
4   Georgia Hard
5   I'm Gonna Take You Home (And Make You Like Me)
6   Coldwater, Tennessee
7   All You Can Cheat
8   Countrier Than Thou
9   If They Could Only See Me Now
10   I Never Did Like Planes
11   Each Night I Try
12   Doin' Right (For All The Wrong Reasons)
13   You Don't Want What I Have
14   Right On Redd
15   Goodbye, Cruel Girl
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.76) - 3 stars out of 5 - "In his best moments, Fulks sounds like the wiseass bastard son of Roger Miller - high praise indeed."
Entertainment Weekly (No. 821/822, p.141) - "[A]nyone who loves the country music of the '50s, '60s, and '70s will relish GEORGIA HARD, Fulks' near masterpiece of homage..." - Grade: A
Uncut (p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[A]n acerbic and reverential pastiche planted firmly in early-'70s countrypolitan and honky-tonk storytelling traditions."
Dirty Linen (p.84) - "[The album] covers a lot of ground while remaining decidedly country in spirit and approach."

Title Note

Personnel: Robbie Fulks (vocals, acoustic guitar); Donna Fulks (vocals); Jeff White (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Redd Volkaert, Grant Tye (electric guitar); Lloyd Green (pedal steel guitar, dobro); Alison Brown (banjo); Sam Bush (mandolin); Carl Gorodetzky, Lee Larrison, Alan Umstead, Jubal Fulks (violin); Hank Singer (fiddle); Joe Terry (piano, organ); Dennis Crouch (bass instrument); Mike Friedrickson (bass guitar, background vocals); Alison Prestwood (bass guitar); Gerald Dowd (drums); Gail Davies (background vocals).

Recording information: Sound Stage, Nashville, Tennessee; Ocean Way, Nashville, Tennessee (2004).

Ensemble: The Beast Of Bergen.

With his first few albums in the 1990s, Robbie Fulks established himself as a premier alt-country artist. Subsequently, he took a couple of career detours, with a major-label rock album and a self-released "arty" singer/songwriter effort. GEORGIA HARD finds Fulks not just returning to his roots, but distilling his talent to its finest point to date.

On this 2005 release, he effectively jettisons the "alt" prefix, delivering a straightforward country album with clear roots in the kind of music that forward-looking artists like Roger Miller and Tom T. Hall were turning out in the Nashville of 30-plus years prior. In that era, Fulks's masterful songwriting, emotive vocal style, and flawless production would likely have earned him as many country hits as critical plaudits. In the time of Toby Keith and Kenny Chesney, it's harder to imagine the old-school drinking song "Each Night I Try" or the thoughtful story-song "If They Could Only See Me Now" racking up Grammys. However, that hardly seems like the ultimate goal of a real-deal country singer like Fulks, otherwise he'd never be able to turn out something as resonant as GEORGIA HARD in the first place.

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When country music was first recorded, around the dawn of the previous century, it was rude, funny and soulful. It was political, too, but not in the chest-thumping, far-right, car-commercial-scoring style of the 2000s. Robbie Fulks' Georgia Hard takes us back to those forgotten values, and reintroduces us to the literacy and warped humor of songwriters like Shel Silverstein, Bob McDill and Roger Miller who could say things like "My uncle used to love me, but she died," and mean it.

While most current country music is calculated to form an inoffensive backdrop to the suburban shopping experience, Robbie Fulks writes songs that make you think and feel and quite often laugh out loud. Now, after several years out of the spotlight, he's back with a new album of new songs for a new label. Titled Georgia Hard, it's aimed at country fans who wondered where their music went.

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