Country Love Songs
| Country Love Songs | ||||
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| Released | 1996 | |||
| Genre | Country, alternative country | |||
| Length | 38:14 | |||
| Label | Bloodshot | |||
| Robbie Fulks chronology | ||||
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Country Love Songs is the debut album by American country and alternative country singer/songwriter Robbie Fulks, released in 1996.
Reception
[edit]| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Robert Christgau |  [2] |
Writing for AllMusic, Jack Leaver referred to Fulks as "cleverly twisted, deliciously irreverent, and one of the best of the new country singer/songwriters" and wrote of the album: "Musically, Country Love Songs supplies plenty of hardcore, bottle-tippin', honky tonk country, with a '50s production that sounds like it's supposed to be there. Fulks writes and sings country music that bears little or no resemblance to what dominates the airwaves; rather, his material harks back to an era when humor and dark subject matter shared the same page of a writer's composition book."[1] In a story for No Depression prior to the release of the album, Kevin Roe wrote: "Country Love Songs touches all of the right traditional country bases in showcasing Fulks’ knack for memorable melodies and gleefully left-of-center lyrics."[3]
Track listing
[edit]All song by Robbie Fulks unless otherwise noted.
- "Every Kind of Music But Country" (Tim Carroll) – 2:18
- "Rock Bottom, Pop. 1" (Fulks, Dallas Wayne) – 2:38
- "The Buck Starts Here" – 3:42
- "(I Love) Nickels and Dimes" – 3:05
- "Barely Human" – 3:45
- "I'd Be Lonesome" – 2:44
- "She Took a Lot of Pills (And Died)" – 2:41
- "We'll Burn Together" – 2:50
- "Let's Live Together" – 2:59
- "The Scrapple Song" – 2:42
- "Pete Way's Trousers" – 2:34
- "Tears Only Run One Way" – 2:49
- "Papa Was a Steel-Headed Man" – 3:27
Personnel
[edit]- Robbie Fulks – vocals, guitar
- Keith Baumann – lap steel guitar
- Tom Brumley – pedal steel
- Casey Driessen – fiddle
- Lou Whitney – bass
- Darren Wilcox – bass
- Brett Simons – bass
- Bobby Lloyd Hicks – drums
- Ora Jones – vocals
- Steve Rosen – fiddle, background vocals
- The Skeletons – background vocals
- Joe Terry – keyboards, piano
- D. Clinton Thompson – guitar
Production
- Greg Duffin – engineer
- Steve Albini – engineer
- John Golden – mastering
- Markus Greiner – design
- Elaine Moore – photography
References
[edit]- ^ a b Leaver, Jack. "Country Love Songs > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (17 September 1996). "Consumer Guide". Village Voice. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ Roe, Kevin. "He took a lot of scrapple (and lived)". No Depression. Archived from the original on February 10, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
