Fulks, The Mekons team up
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 – Chicago country singer Robbie Fulks and punk folk band The Mekons are teaming up for a digital album release, "Jura," in November.
The two worked together for a month to record this limited-edition collection of rough sea shanties and mournful tales. The songs were organically written together, covered, or taken from traditionals and played by all of the ensemble cast of musicians or by a select few. Jura is an island off the coast of Scotland with about 200 people.
Songs on the CD are:
1. A Fearful Moment
2. Refill
3. An Incident Off St. Kitt's
4. Shine On Silver Seas
5. Land Ahoy!
6. Beaten and Broken
7. Getting On With It
8. I Am Come Home
9. The Last Fish in the Sea
10. I Say, Hang Him!
11. Go From My Window
More news for Robbie Fulks
- 03/17/23: Fulks looks at bluegrass with "Longhair Bluegrass"
- 02/17/23: Fulks goes down easy with "One Glass of Whiskey"
- 01/25/23: Compass signs Fulks
- 08/10/18: Lewis, Fulks, Jennings out with new discs
- 05/30/18: Fulks, Lewis go "Wild! Wild! Wild!"
- 01/21/16: Fulks returns to roots on "Upland Stories"
- 02/02/15: MPR bleeps Fulks
- 06/04/13: Fulks returns home
CD reviews for Robbie Fulks
The Americana Outcast Robbie Fulkshas been delivering spellbinding albums since the late '90s, but has never returned to bluegrass in that time. Select songs within both "Upland Stories" and especially "Gone Away Backward" flirted with 'grass, but it hasn't been since his sole album with The Special Consensus (1989's "A Hole in My Heart") that Fulks has fully immersed himself in the beauty that is unabashed bluegrass.
Fulks' vocal style ...
Twenty years ago, Robbie Fulks became a beloved alt.-country figure by writing modern honky tonk and country songs that rose above the work of many other contemporary traditionalists thanks to a combination of sharp wit and engaging storytelling. In 2013, Fulks gained critical acclaim for "Gone Away Backward," an album that took a deeper dive into history by embracing the traditional Appalachian folk music that proved to be country music's bedrock. That exploration continues with ...
Robbie Fulks is going backwards in more ways that one - not that that's a negative. For starters, he's back with Bloodshot - the label where he released four of his first six albums, but none since "13 Hillbilly Giants' in 2001. Also evident of his coming home feel is that he may hearken back even further to his time with bluegrass band Special Consensus as Fulks opts for an acoustic, often bluegrass sound, sometimes country or folk on these dozen songs. ...
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