house concert, NC/VA?

March 25, 2015  /  Robbie Fulks

Thursday might not be an ideal night for a party, but maybe an early-evening start time could make it fly. The date is Thursday May 14, and the area is north of Charlotte, south of DC, not closer than 60 or so miles to either. Raleigh, Richmond, or anywhere in between would be perfect. Acoustic trio: Robbie Gjersoe, Todd Phillips, and myself. Drop a line if interested.

 

this monday, and a movie

March 12, 2015  /  Robbie Fulks

Hideout this week is Nora O'Connor and me, back with our two-human quorum.

I've added several March/April dates to the tour page, the soonest of which appear to your right. I'll call particular attention to the premiere of Kannapolis next week at Duke.

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this monday at the hideout

March 05, 2015  /  Robbie Fulks

Western Swing night! Gonna be a ton of people onstage, to make it feel more like Tulsa in 1935. (In terms of the per-player payout, it'll feel amazingly like that.) Anna Jacobson, Alex Hall, Peter Seman, Beau Sample, Joel Paterson, K.C. McDonough, and I will throw some love to the late great Bob Wills and all who followed.

 

this monday at the hideout + house show + jw harding

February 26, 2015  /  Robbie Fulks

First off, this Monday it's another of my yearly Doc Watson nights at the Hideout. I'll play the flattop and perhaps a little banjo, and Steve Doyle and Robbie Gjersoe will juggle bass, reso, uke, mandolin, and yet more flattop guitar. All three of us will sing tunes we've pulled off the records of the man who is my all-time country music hero.

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house concert?

February 18, 2015  /  Robbie Fulks

I'll be in Stoughton, Wisconsin on April 11th with a stellar quartet of acoustic players, maybe quintet. I'd like to bring it into the Hideout the following Monday. If anyone would like to host us for a house concert on Sunday April 12, please send me a note. The approximate geographical area would be: N/S Appleton to Peoria, E/W South Bend also to Peoria

tags / Stoughton, wisconsin

this monday at the hideout

February 13, 2015  /  Robbie Fulks

Russellmania. All things Russell. Including, with typical generosity, "Russ." Gerald and K.C. and Brian and I will perform music by Russell Brand, Catherine Russell, Russ Kunkel, Arthur Russell, and many others, in the mold of our "House of Stuart" extravaganza last year. Russell-y prizes will be given those who can mentally "russell" up information on some of our more obscure selections, and anyone actually named Russell and can prove it will be admitted free of charge, nay, welcomed as a hero.

this monday at the hideout

February 08, 2015  /  Robbie Fulks

I join the Modern Sounds. A longtime goal! The MS are Joel Paterson, Beau Sample, and Alex Hall. Their repertoire, which is mainly what we'll play, is guitar-centric 1930s-1950s R&B and small-group jazz. A/k/a the funnest music ever invented. As opposed to the music featured in Whiplash, which I saw tonight, and which, please don't see.

tonight's goddamn show

February 02, 2015  /  Robbie Fulks

Given the unusual snowfall in Chicago yesterday, I thought I had better affirm that we are indeed plowing ahead with tonight's presentation at the fabled Hideout. Steve and I love playing so much that it doesn't bother us if only nine people listen.

the infancy of 2015 continues

January 20, 2015  /  Robbie Fulks

Thanks for the couple of comments on my recent post about various projects. By way of reply, the large digital album I'm working on, a la 50-vc. Doberman, will be close to as many songs (50) as the older album contained. Could be exactly 50, or 49, or 52, we'll have to see. I guess my first thought was to go one higher or lower so I could retain the fabulous and widely beloved brand-name and just change the number. 

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tags / 2015, infancy, album

this monday at the hideout

January 15, 2015  /  Robbie Fulks

I'll do a set of Jesse Winchester songs in honor of the eccentric master (and, by the way, what isn't much acknowledged, a triple-threat dude, as natural and grooving as his nylon-strung guitar picking was; it's regrettable that his brand-name producers built castles around him rather than letting his own hands do more of the work) who died last April. The material will range from his first record in 1970 to his last, the posthumous release from 2014, though there will be a noticeable hump in the mid-period recordings, which are most familiar to me and most embedded. Playing with me will be Gerald Dowd, Steve Dawson, Brian Wilkie, Scott Stevenson, and, as special guest, Ingrid Graudins.

this monday at the hideout

January 10, 2015  /  Robbie Fulks

I'll be duetting with Justin Roberts. Looks like we'll be touching on some of his certifiably excellent songs for children, as well as others written by us both; and we'll be picking out some interesting covers. As far as the child-friendly question that's come up on previous Justin Hideouts, the show won't be expressly aimed at youngsters, since it'll have some kids'-themed music in it here and there, and won't be obscene, it could be entertaining for certain children, those not very impatient or poorly reared.

2015, a look ahead

January 08, 2015  /  Robbie Fulks

Other projects I'm working on this year: a follow-up to 50-vc. Doberman, a reversioning of Bob Dylan's Street Legal, plans to produce records on two artists, live performances here and there of Jenny Scheinman's score to the moving-portraiture documentary Kannapolis, a play, some duo touring with Redd Volkaert, and the usual touring with the usual shifting cast. That's kind of a lot for 12 months, mostly because of the writing, which eats up a ton of time. 

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tags / 2015, look ahead