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Country Love Songs

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Country Love Songs
Studio album by
Released1996
GenreCountry, alternative country
Length38:14
LabelBloodshot
Robbie Fulks chronology
Country Love Songs
(1996)
South Mouth
(1997)

Country Love Songs is the debut album by American country and alternative country singer/songwriter Robbie Fulks, released in 1996.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Robert Christgau(1-star Honorable Mention)[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

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All song by Robbie Fulks unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Every Kind of Music But Country" (Tim Carroll) – 2:18
  2. "Rock Bottom, Pop. 1" (Fulks, Dallas Wayne) – 2:38
  3. "The Buck Starts Here" – 3:42
  4. "(I Love) Nickels and Dimes" – 3:05
  5. "Barely Human" – 3:45
  6. "I'd Be Lonesome" – 2:44
  7. "She Took a Lot of Pills (And Died)" – 2:41
  8. "We'll Burn Together" – 2:50
  9. "Let's Live Together" – 2:59
  10. "The Scrapple Song" – 2:42
  11. "Pete Way's Trousers" – 2:34
  12. "Tears Only Run One Way" – 2:49
  13. "Papa Was a Steel-Headed Man" – 3:27

Personnel

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b Leaver, Jack. "Country Love Songs > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (17 September 1996). "Consumer Guide". Village Voice. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  3. ^ Roe, Kevin. "He took a lot of scrapple (and lived)". No Depression. Archived from the original on February 10, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.