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Wisecracking upstart Robbie Fulks made his name with a series of indie releases that mated Fulks's sardonic songwriting talent with a passion for traditional country music. After being snapped up my a major label, Fulks was introduced to the unwashed masses with an album that tried to hard to present him as a hard-hitting rock star. He was always too smart and quirky an artist for that, but back in indie-world for COUPLES IN TROUBLE, Fulks manages to transcend his honky-tonk past and embrace his own distinctive gifts simultaneously. In general terms, this is a singer-songwriter album, the country flavor left almost completely behind and replaced by carefully crafted arrangements and sophisticated melodic and harmonic development.
While Fulks visits piano balladry on "My Tormentor," Beefhart-meets-Waits angular oddness on "Brenda's New Stepfather," and pure power-pop on the infectious "Mad at a Girl," he doesn't leave his old fans completely at sea here. Still amply evident and standing at the foundation of every song is Fulks's cutting lyrical gift and knack for memorable melodies. They may not be grafted into the shape of a lost Buck Owens song, but the tunes on COUPLE IN TROUBLE bear substance and invention enough to satisfy both Fulks's craving for progress and the bottom-line goods you'd expect from a quality singer-songwriter in any genre.
Recorded at Electrical Audio, Rax Trax and Acme Studios, Chicago, Illinois.
Personnel includes: Robbie Fulks, Grant Tye, Gerald Dowd, Dan Massey, Kyle Woodring, Lorne Rall, Brett Simons,. Joe Terry, Tim Mulvenna, Kathleen Keane, Jim De Wan, Jubal Fulks, Wendy Richman, Ru-Pei Yei, Pat Brennan, Mark Olen, John Williams.
Q (12/01, p.135) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...His most ambitious effort to date..."
No Depression (9-10/01, p.133) - "...The most intelligent, cohesive, and moving album Fulks has ever made..." Robbie Fulks Couples In Trouble Songs | 1. | In Bristol Town One Bright Day | $0.99 | |
| 2. | Anything For Love | |
| 3. | Dancing on the Ashes | |
| 4. | She Needs You Now | |
| 5. | My Tormentor | |
| 6. | Real Money | |
| 7. | Mad at a Girl | $0.99 | |
| 8. | Brenda's New Stepfather | |
| 9. | I've Got to Tell Myself the Truth | |
| 10. | Banks on the Marianne | |
| 11. | Grip of Our Love, The | |
| 12. | Never Could | |
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