Upland Stories Robbie Fulks SKU: BS242LP Barcode: 744302024219 17.00 £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Bloodshot Released Date: 29th September 2016 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Nominated for two 2017 Grammy Awards: Best Folk Album and Best American Roots Song (“Alabama at Night”) Named one of 2016’s best albums by The Guardian, NPR Music, Mojo (UK), Mountain Stage, Rolling Stone, Chicago Tribune, Salon, No Depression and more! Deluxe LP is on 180-gram vinyl and includes digital download card In 1993, a songwriter banging around the Chicago club scene with a twangy voice and dangerous sense of humor caught our attention. We started making records with him, and as part of the first-generation Bloodshot roster, Robbie Fulks helped us define “Alternative Country.” In 2013, after two decades of playing music everywhere from the taverns of southern Illinois to the honky-tonks of northern Norway, from Austin City Limits’s soundstage to the historic Grand Ole Opry, he reunited with us for the highly acclaimed Gone Away Backward. Upland Stories continues and — with sprinklings of pedal steel, drums, electric guitar, and keyboards — expands the sound of that acoustic set. Fulks’s richly emotional storytelling is illuminated by his instrumental prowess and emotional voice. At 53, he is philosophically reflective, writing “with clear eyes and a full heart” (Ken Tucker, NPR). Don’t get us wrong, his wit is still as quick as his picking; but it’s reflected through the lens of fatherhood, marriage, middle age, and the literary voices he is drawn to and draws from: Flannery O’Connor, Anton Chekhov, Mary Lavin, Frank O’Connor, Javier Marias, James Agee. Three new songs—“Alabama at Night,” “America Is A Hard Religion,” and “A Miracle” — are meditations inspired by Agee’s 1936 trip to Alabama, the sojourn that fueled his furious polemic on American poverty, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in Virginia and North Carolina, at the edge of the broad “upland” region referenced in the record’s title, also provided depth and detail for Fulks’s songs about the mysteries of memory, the vanishing of cherished things, and the struggles of everyday life. Robbie tries to make songs that offer more than verse-chorus-hook: songs that have space, calmness, unresolved tensions, and the hallmarks of lived experience. This sort of complexity is displayed in “Fare Thee Well, Carolina Gals,” an intimate folk song from the perspective of a man who has let life’s possibilities pass him by, and in “Never Come Home,” in which a sick man returns to spend his last days among an unwelcoming clan of pious, hard-bitten East Tennesseans. Accompanying him is an incredible cast. Todd Phillips emerged in the 1970s as bassist in David Grisman’s and Tony Rice’s classic lineups. Frequent Bill Frisell collaborator Jenny Scheinman played violin, as did Shad Cobb (Osborne Brothers, Steve Earle, Willie Nelson). The two Chicagoans on the record are Flatlanders guitarist Robbie Gjersoe and trad-jazz drummer Alex Hall. The multi-faceted utility string wizard Fats Kaplin (Jack White) and legendary avant-gardist Wayne Horvitz (Naked City, Paul Taylor, Zony Mash) complete the extraordinary ensemble. Steve Albini, who began working with Robbie on Halloween night 1986, recorded the group’s live singing and playing on old German mics using a non-automated Neotek board, creating, as he always does, a provocatively unvarnished and analogically resonant stereo image. Twenty years ago, Robbie’s exuberance for old-school country made a lot of noise. Today, his storytelling through folk and bluegrass music on Upland Stories delivers the quieter, sometimes unsettling truths of humanity. “Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don’t.” – James Agee Artist Robbie Fulks Genre Americana / Country , Folk Label Bloodshot Buying Options 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 180g , 1LP , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings Alabama At Night Baby Rocked Her Dolly Never Come Home Sarah Jane Aunt Peg's New Old Man Needed South Bend Soldiers On America Is a Hard Religion A Miracle Sweet as Sweet Comes Katy Kay Fare Thee Well, Carolina Gals Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Robbie Fulks and more from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Robbie Fulks Gone Away Backward Americana / Country | Bloodshot | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 9th September 2013 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Robbie Fulks Gone Away Backward £14.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Bloodshot SKU: BS211LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th September 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cowboy Junkies Songs Of The Recollection Americana / Country | Proper Records | 1LP Released 25th March 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cowboy Junkies Songs Of The Recollection £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Proper Records SKU: PRPLP160 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Donovan Woods Both Ways Americana / Country | Meant well | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 20th April 2018 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Donovan Woods Both Ways £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Meant well SKU: MW0021 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Morgan Wallen Dangerous: The Double Album Americana / Country | EMI | 3LP Released 8th January 2021 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Morgan Wallen Dangerous: The Double Album £30.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: EMI SKU: 3534424 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 8th January 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View SNAFU SNAFU Americana / Country | WWA Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 25th April 2024 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations SNAFU SNAFU £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: WWA Records SKU: nn285625 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 25th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View William Elliott Whitmore Kilonova Americana / Country | Bloodshot | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 29th September 2018 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders William Elliott Whitmore Kilonova £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Bloodshot SKU: BS265LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul's picks View Product Quick View Calexico and Iron & Wine Years to Burn Americana / Country | City Slang | 180g, 1LP Released 14th June 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Calexico and Iron & Wine Years to Burn £22.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: City Slang SKU: SLANG50224LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 14th June 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Waylon Jennings Louisiana Man, Kentucky Woman Americana / Country | Black Friday | 7", Single Released 29th November 2014 £11.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Waylon Jennings Louisiana Man, Kentucky Woman £11.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Black Friday SKU: BCR021PMI Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 29th November 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Uncle Dave Macon First Featured Star Of The “Grand Ole Opry” Americana / Country | Ace Of Hearts | 1LP Released 13th September 2023 £9.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Uncle Dave Macon First Featured Star Of The “Grand Ole Opry” £9.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Ace Of Hearts SKU: nn271200 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th September 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Danny Worsnop The Long Road Home Americana / Country | Earache | 1LP Released 17th February 2017 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Danny Worsnop The Long Road Home £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Earache SKU: 0817195020313 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Master And Everyone Americana / Country | Domino | 1LP Released 28th October 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Master And Everyone £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP121 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Americana / Country Start again
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