end-of-year show, 2014 edition

December 23, 2014  /  Robbie Fulks

It's that time of year again, when I urgently encourage all who are thinking of attending my year-end blowout at Fitzgeralds to buy tickets in advance. This year we added a second night, in the hopes that we wouldn't have to turn people away at the door, as we have for several years running now. We (Bill Fitzgerald and I) were a little nervous about jumping from the comfy surplus scenario to the pressure of having to draw 750-odd people. However, as of now, advance sales for both Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th are approximately where they've been at this point in the past -- we're a little over halfway to sold-out both nights. So, as usual, I'm not sure which scenario to be concerned about: that we're not closer to all-the-way sold-out, or that once again we may be turning away some poor souls at the door. Best all around for both your peace of mind and mine to buy now rather than wait. 

Link to tickets for Friday's show: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=5453465&pl=

And for Saturday's: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=5453515&pl=

There'll be a set of satire/music/sketch and a set of plain music, as usual. On stage will be Scott Stevenson (doing a vicious Pat Quinn impersonation, I must say), Beau Sample, Robbie Gjersoe, Gerald Dowd, Joe Dempsey, and me. It's $20 and starts at 9.

this monday at the hideout

December 11, 2014  /  Robbie Fulks

Shania! A Holiday Treat! Join Gerald Dowd, Chris Neville, Keely Vasquez, Tawny Newsome, Scott Tipping, Jon Langford, Liam Davis, Nora O'Connor, me, and maybe even more people, as we put paid to the fifth year of my Monday residency with a set of songs by the empress of late 20th-c. country-pop music.

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this monday at the hideout + station inn

December 01, 2014  /  Robbie Fulks

Good grief, this is last-minute, but Greg Cahill joins me tonight, and the two of us will play guitar-banjo and banjo-banjo music. Rumor has it that Ollie O'Shea, the heroic fiddler, trad-country expert, drug lord, multiple shooting victim, fez champion, and certifiable lunatic will be dropping by to play. The usual "Warning: Traditional Bluegrass Music Will Be Played During Tonight's Performance" signs will be posted in the Hideout foyer.

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fulksy news roundup

October 21, 2014  /  Robbie Fulks

Couple things happening with me at present:

Foo Fighter Promo Ballyhoo. While the Fighters were in town for a show, their guitarist, Chris Shiflett, interviewed me for his podcast at the Bloodshot office. You just never know what strange thing is going to happen next; Mr. Shiflett is a country music devotee, and knows his stuff. We talked about such matters as Redd Volkaert, Steve Albini, and my fateful fork in the career road back in the early 1990s, between Bloodshot Records and Music City USA. I'll post more info on how to hear it, when it comes to me.

Andrew Bird Co-Chair Plastic Single Dance Delirium. Bloodshot, the concern just mentioned, is fixing to release a spiffy looking 45-RPM record of Andrew Bird covering me ("I'll Trade You Money for Wine") and, on the other side, me covering Andrew ("Core and Rind"). Nora O'Connor sings on both, a fantastic coincidence. I can't honestly vouch for how good my track is, but Andrew's cover of me is a real success -- you can hear it on Time.com, where it's streaming free right now.

Bonkers Lifelong Tour Soldiers On. I won't be at the Hideout on the coming Monday, but I will be various other places the next several days: Asheville, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, District of Columbia...does it go on all the way down the alphabet? Doubt it, but check the tour sidebar and see! I'll be quartet: Robbie Gjersoe, Shad Cobb, and the mighty Todd Phillips. I've listened to and loved Todd's playing since I was 13, and am thrilled to share the stage with him. Come on out and see how instruments sound played into mikes. 

eurospill part 2

October 12, 2014  /  Robbie Fulks

I had been in Scotland for two days when I started seeing “yes” stickers in apartment windows and on car bumpers and streetlamps. I asked our driver, a proud Scotsman engorged with fifteen centuries of esoteric Scottish military history, a merrie portly sexagenerian with an enormous feather jutting backward from his hatband at all hours, what it was all about. After he had reminded me that the independence referendum was a month away, and clarified that the angels were all solidly lined up on one side of the question, I asked him to describe the opposing view.

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hardly strictly

October 02, 2014  /  Robbie Fulks

Y'all, my set on Sunday is at the Star Stage, at 11:45AM. Alongside me will be Jenny Scheinman, Robbie Gjersoe, and Missy Raines, a perfectly gender-balanced quartet (or as my wife said, "half menstruaters and half women-beaters"). It's a free festival and one of the world's finest, so if you miss it then I blame you!

eurospill part 1

September 13, 2014  /  Robbie Fulks

My return from abroad has been met by loud cries: "Praeceptor! Speak of thy exploits and all grotesqueries witnessed!" In my endeavor to give a thrillingly rounded and complete picture (what used to be called "novelistic," now "TV-like") I will break up my memories into installments. This first will concern the topic, "What I Read" (rhymes with "dead").

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steve dawson's latest

September 11, 2014  /  Robbie Fulks

I had the pleasure of contributing a small bit of harmony singing to my friend Steve's latest project, Funeral Bonsai Wedding, a couple months back; the record is released the 30th of this month. Somewhat in advance of that date -- this Friday -- Steve and the jazz players who accompany his songs on the record are doing a promotional

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