View basket “First Featured Star Of The “Grand Ole Opry”” has been added to your basket. 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 Alison Krauss & Union Station Paper Airplane Americana / Country | Craft Recordings | 1LP Released 19th January 2024 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alison Krauss & Union Station Paper Airplane £26.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Craft Recordings SKU: 6106651 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th January 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Another Day, Another Time: Music Of Llewyn Davis Americana / Country | Nonesuch | 3LP Released 9th February 2015 £42.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Another Day, Another Time: Music Of Llewyn Davis £42.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Nonesuch SKU: 0075597956221 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 9th February 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View 500 Miles To Memphis Blessed Be The Damned Americana / Country | Paper & Plastik | 1LP Released 30th August 2019 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders 500 Miles To Memphis Blessed Be The Damned £21.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Paper & Plastik SKU: PP002019LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th August 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band The Front Porch Sessions Americana / Country | Family Owned Records / Thirty Tigers | 1LP Released 10th March 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band The Front Porch Sessions £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Family Owned Records / Thirty Tigers SKU: FOR001V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Colter Wall Western Swing & Waltzes and other Punchy Songs Americana / Country | La Honda Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th August 2020 £15.00 Select options Colter Wall Western Swing & Waltzes and other Punchy Songs £15.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: La Honda Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th August 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Eilen Jewell Queen Of The Minor Key Americana / Country | Signature Sounds | 1LP Released 3rd October 2011 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eilen Jewell Queen Of The Minor Key £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Signature Sounds SKU: LPSIG7002 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd October 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View A.A. 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