View basket “SNAFU” 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 Dave Alvin And The Guilty Women Americana / Country | Yep Roc | 2LP Released 22nd October 2010 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dave Alvin And The Guilty Women £15.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Yep Roc SKU: YEP2155LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 22nd October 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Minus 5, The Dungeon Golds Americana / Country | Yep Roc | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 19th March 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Minus 5, The Dungeon Golds £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Yep Roc SKU: YEP2420LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 19th March 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gene Clark S/T (White Light) (SACD) Americana / Country | Intervention Records | SACD Released 2nd December 2022 £42.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Gene Clark S/T (White Light) (SACD) £42.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Intervention Records SKU: IR-SCD9 Formats: SACD Released Date: 2nd December 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Gene Clark Fyrebird Americana / Country | Vinyl Passion Classics | 180g, 1LP Released 18th November 2015 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gene Clark Fyrebird £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Vinyl Passion Classics SKU: VP80068 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 18th November 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shaver The Earth Rolls On Americana / Country | New West | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 21st April 2023 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shaver The Earth Rolls On £27.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West SKU: LPNW5717C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 21st April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams Plastic Bouquet Americana / Country | New West | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th December 2020 £17.00 Select options Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams Plastic Bouquet £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th December 2020 Read More Select options Nearly New View Product Quick View Highway 101 Highway 101 Americana / Country | Warner Bros | 1LP Release Date TBC £10.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Highway 101 Highway 101 £10.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Warner Bros SKU: nn273656 Formats: 1LP Released Date: Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Glenn Jones The Wanting Americana / Country | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th September 2011 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Glenn Jones The Wanting £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Thrill Jockey SKU: THRILL271LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th September 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Hiatt Crossing Muddy Waters Americana / Country | New West | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 17th November 2023 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Hiatt Crossing Muddy Waters £24.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West SKU: LPNW5779C Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 17th November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Grey De Lisle Iron Flowers Americana / Country | Sugar Hill Records | 1LP, Includes DVD Released 24th August 2023 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Grey De Lisle Iron Flowers £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Sugar Hill Records SKU: nn269892 Formats: 1LP, Includes DVD Released Date: 24th August 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Americana / Country Start again
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